I suppose if you're too literal to understand his work on myths, too wimpy to value his teaching strong-but-not-macho masculinity, and too unlibertarian to care about him defending free speech, @jordanbpeterson is merely a respected professor. Mystifying indeed.https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/956173875083059201 …
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He first came to wide public attention protesting Canadian human rights protections for trans people, and refusing to afford trans people the dignity of their preferred pronouns, on free speech grounds.
My dad, who is not a bigot, has the same view. He sees it as deeply wrong for someone to think they own or control someone else's choice of words. Fine to request, nice to honor the request, but to insist or call it a right is thought control. Consider you might be wrong on this.
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There isn't a legal requirement to talk a certain way in play here. I share the concern about hate speech and incitement laws, which can be and sometimes are abused. But the move to reframe legal/cultural pushback against bigotry as the real tyranny is at least as worrying.
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When the pushback includes "You are forbidden to decide for yourself what gender means and how it fits particular people. You are forbidden to choose the words you use to describe the world. If you don't conform to our definitions of bigotry, you are evil", it is real tyranny.
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The same view? Are you saying your dad opposes the extension of human rights protections for trans people, and/or refuses to afford trans people the dignity of their pronouns?
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My dad believes people should decide for themselves how to categorize the world, and what words to use in describing things. That to force someone to use the word or category you want - even about them - is tyrannical thought control.
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