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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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?
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I don’t know why you need an intellectual heavyweight to debate Peterson, considering he’s not one himself (at least in the realms of philosophy, culture, history, and politics, all of which he spends the majority of his time talking about).
But, given that we have what we have, you’re free to read the following. There are no shortage of people who, regardless of their ideological position, think his philosophy, methodology, and general understanding of a lot of what he talks about is outright poor:
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In addition to his vague reference to neo-Marxist thought, Peterson neither analyzes the concept of “political correctness” (PC) nor defines it to any degree in his reflections on the topic. Perhaps what he means is that to be PC is to be authoritarian: that is, maybe he thinks political correctness is reducible to authoritarianism. But if we follow this line of thought, and use the California F Scale to measure authoritarianism, Peterson’s own views on gender appear to indicate that even he is authoritarian to some degree. First, he holds traditional views on gender, in the sense that he assumes that there can be only two categories of gender, every person must fall into one of these two categories, and both categories are reducible to biological traits. Second, his opinion appears to demonstrate resistance to new ideas or concepts that challenge his own: the very idea of preemptive refusal seems to be an indication of this. On the California F Scale of authoritarian personalities, both features are prominent.
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http://philosophycommons.typepad.com...-peterson.html
http://mixedmentalarts.co/jordan-pet...nt-philosophy/
https://medium.com/@nickargall/why-j...er-6f8b93a7ed8
http://alexanderofford.com/the-intel...aniel-karasik/
http://metamoderna.org/jordan-peters...etence?lang=en