I’ll say it. Jordan Peterson has been a positive influence in my life. I’ve watched hundreds of hours of his lectures on YouTube. I started a book club to read his recommended books such as Gulag Archipelago, Brave New World, 1984, and The Rape of Nanking. It has been a difficult and important experience for me.
Reading Dostoyevsky was eye opening, if just for the fact that as much as people change, we stay the same, and the Communists were using some of the same idealistic arguments for changing the world in 1860s Russia that they are now. The idea that we are simply products of social conditioning, the tabula rasa and nothing more, the victims of our upbringing, were all central tenants in the severity of punishments for people being sent to Gulag in the Soviet Union. Prostitution was 3 years and being a nun was 10 Years. It technically wasn’t illegal to be a Christian, but teaching your children Christian values was! Families were purposely torn apart.
I guess the point I’m trying to make is that learning more history, and just how badly things can go wrong, is very important and anyone who encourages people to seek out that history on their own is good in my book.
I'd say he very much belongs there.
I heard he telling people to clean their rooms, and people getting offended by it.
I'd like to get enlighten on how is he in the same camp as Alex Jones.
Even then, I would bet Alex Jones and alt-right are not the only ones buying views, that shows the article is biased and HN too for that matter.
Hnm, I think google is somewhat biased, but I can agree that this claim is weird, is it that bad though?
> Marxist academics are out to destroy society
History speaks for itself
> Bill C 16 and Free Speech
Kinda ties back to the Marxists, every video I've seen he said he would call trans with whatever pronoun they like, he opposes the government creating speech laws, which I think is a valid argument.