A friends says this five-year-old video made Jordan Peterson "famous." I had never seen it until just now. Comment #1: "The fact that [Peterson] gives them these trans women the time of day and patiently listening before giving a thoughtful response, when at the same time he is being repetitively and aggressively misquoted, his words and intent misrepresented, and just overall berated, is so damn impressive to me. He has incredible self control." Comment #2: "It's like you just can't win with these people. No matter how civil or respectful you try to be to them they will always find something to be offended by." Comment #3: "This [8.16.21] video was intended to demonize Peterson. It did the exact opposite. His thoughts are now universally appreciated [while] the person who recorded this video and posted it...their greatest contribution was that the video backfired."
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I was there. It was a hell of an afternoon. I had an ice cream cone with Jordan after and asked him if we could refer to the cones as “them/they”. He was cool with that. Props.
An oldie but a goodie. Think I’ll pour myself a gin and rewatch.
I’m glad Peterson exists, he provides endless comedic material for the funnier people on and off the internet.
Anyone who thinks that “his thoughts are now universally appreciated” needs to get their head checked, though.
That’s not a 14 month old video. That reupload was posted 14 months ago, but the video was shot many years ago, in or around 2017, I believe.
Yeah I was gonna guess 2016, but I think I’m thinking of Bill C16.
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“You’re Almost Impossible To Talk To”
Yeah, I find I have similar encounters about twice a month now — always online, thank goodness — where when one asserts something reasonable, the Woke reaction is like you’re suddenly speaking Mandarin.
It’s a Lewis Carroll novel come to life.
Here’s a fairly recent colloquy I had with someone named Pauline Kale that I find myself returning to a couple of times a day now. It is a true snapshot of the times.
The first comment is from me, asserting that the middle ground between two opposing arguments isn’t necessarily the most logical position.
Seems like a fairly anodyne argument on my part.
But check out Kale’s rejoinder to it. It is utterly surreal. And classic Woke.
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Yeah, at the end of the day, that’s always what they revert to. Basically name calling.
In 1984, former KGB Agent Yuri Bezmenov (who escaped to United States because he loved this country) said:
Yeah, it is pretty useless at this point. What is scary to witness for me, is how easy it is to get people to hold truly monstrous views, once they’re convinced that they are righteous. It doesn’t matter how much the words they are speaking or writing contradicts their stated views, all contradictions collapse so that they can lean hard into presenting virtuous.
Take the Jihad Rehab story. The people in that ordeal are presenting as anti-racist, while using a filmmaker’s skin color to bar her from telling a story about people who do not share her skin color. They literally used skin color to deny someone access, and they’ve totally missed the fact that that is racist. The weird thing is if the filmmaker were black and right wing white folks said, “this story is not yours to tell….” they would see it and pounce on it immediately.
Yep, of course they would.