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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I believe it’s fairly obvious that New Era was suggesting Peterson would be “shut up” through getting trounced intellectually by his peers, being that one would assume there are enough intellectuals at the UofT that could point out the errors (especially when he speaks far out of his wheelhouse).
That’s not fascism. The fact that you call it fascism is ridiculous.
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Wanting to 'suppress' or shutup an opposing opinion, especially intellectually or in academia is fascist. It boggles my mind at the sheer ignorance of believing that it is in any way a GOOD thing to drown out or 'shut up' differing opinions to your supposed superior viewpoint.
That one would think Peterson would 'learn to shut up' because an intellectual superior would 'put him in his place' is crazy, and goes against the foundation of any free society, much less the fundamental idea of free speech. I do not agree with gender identity or the stupidity of thinking pronouns should be used to describe people, however I do not have a problem with the debate around it from BOTH sides. I do have a problem with forced speech, or with wanting to restrict speech. It is rather amusing how both those things are often part of the same thought pattern, and that thought pattern comes from the same small percentage of people who think that pushing their fascist viewpoint is even a bit constructive.
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And your hypocrite comment doesn’t land either. New Era’s point is that men are encouraged into these roles, but do not take them, and that is on the individual men. Women, up until recently, weren’t even encourage to take this roles. It’s not on them if they aren’t being encouraged, or worse, are being discouraged to take certain roles. But when there is an active push to entice a population into a certain career path or role, and it’s still not happening, then it’s fair to assume that’s more on the population than society.
Seems basic to me. Where did you lose that part of it?
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Oh please. Like Cliff said, there is little evidence to suggest that women are being told 'hey you are not good enough to solve these math problems, so off to nursing school with you.' I would place that conclusion over there in the same corner with the gender wage gap one.
I would say there is more stigma involved with boys going to nursing school which is a female dominated industry, then there is with girls going into any kind of STEM related industry.
In North America, nursing is one of the fastest growing job sectors, and I certainly don't see any kind of effort being made to fill that worker gap by making a bigger effort to recruit boys. But I suppose if one were to suggest that, all the feminists would be up in arms over the gender discrimination.