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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This, in three posts, demonstrates what someone captive to their own ideology looks like. First make an over the top, morally charged statement about someone whose views are anathema, declaring them to be evil. When someone points out that you're not being reasonable, don't for a moment question yourself; simply double down on what you have already pre-decided is automatically true.
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It's what the conservative right did when I was young. Which is why I spent my youth fighting against them. And now the far left use the same tactics, the same line of attack. And that's why I fight them now. They've become a mirror image.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Oh nice, now we’re posting videos of guys who trash gay marriage, use anti-gay insults, and don’t believe in any laws against hate speech.
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It's remarkable how many on the identarian left carry a map of the battlefield around in the minds - all the blogs and websites and Youtube channels of their enemies. But they can't form a coherent argument that doesn't resort to ad hominem or poisoning the well. The fact X is said by Y, who posts on Z site is no substitute for a genuine argument.
As I said in my original post, and as the Channel 4 video illustrates so well, for many on the left their beliefs have become such unchallenged dogma that they genuinely don't know how to support and defend it from reasoned criticism. Their beliefs have become, as Haidt calls them, sacred values. By quashing all dissent and delegitimizing any criticism of their agenda in the institutions that have come under their sway, they've actually lost their own ability to employ reason and persuasive argument in support of that agenda.
I want an intellectual heavyweight from the identarian left to step up and debate Peterson. These contests are how we discern the truth from wishful thinking, empirically-supported facts from sentiment. Peterson
should have his assertions and simplifications challenged. But you do it with reasons and facts, not name-calling and insults. What are his detractors so afraid of?