2. Native English speakers, for example, have an advantage over non-natives. The university system itself was formed by a Christian & (in the West) European ethnos. So when the left wants to “decolonialise” these institutions they are justified in doing so accoridng...
1. Yet again, I feel sympathy for Jordan Peterson’s leftist opponents. Peterson grants that a “healthy hierarchy” cannot include a trace of racial or ethnic privilege. This being granted, it is logical to critique all existing institutions in multicultural Western societies.
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3. ...according to Peterson’s logic. How can he object to the traditions of an institution formed to serve mainly European Christian students being dismantled to make things easier for, say, a Sikh or Muslim Asian student? He has not grounds to do so, by his own thinking.
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4. Failure to do so is giving an arbitrary advantage to Europeans and Christians. Peterson is just an earlier iteration of the left, and consequently has no coherent position against the contemporary left, which merely consistently applies his own ideas.
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5. He actually understands this, really, when he describes how the left expands by a sort of ratchet the different categories of “oppressors”, starting with aristocrats moving to the bourgeois then kulaks then whites.
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6. He just doesn’t make the connection that’s he is an earlier iteration of the same ratchet.
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