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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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?
Each of us decides if we see another person as liar or honest, kind or cruel, weak or strong, him or her. There may be social consequences for speaking judgments contradictory to social consensus (calling an honest person a liar), but an odd opinion should not be a crime.
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No one here thinks odd opinions should be crimes. I worry about the trend of conflating social censure for bigoted speech ("PC") with the outright criminalization of expression, which has led some to think that rejecting evolving norms of decency is brave rather than vile.
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I oppose hate speech laws, which I think are a misguided way to officially acknowledge something that is true: that people are oppressed in groups, and that rights lack worth if members of groups can be systemically denied dignity.
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"X chooses what pronouns to use for others" => "X is systematically denying dignity to a group to oppress them". Quite a leap, from an individual choice to an act of group oppression. Make such leaps if you want, but don't expect any libertarians to follow you.
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