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Originally Posted by Azure
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.
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No, it isn’t, not in the context you’re talking about.
Shutting down an opinion by dismantling it and debating the holder into letting that opinion or viewpoint go, is not fascist. That’s literally the way you crush bad ideas, by using better ideas to beat them out of existence.
That’s what free speech is. If you can use intellect and good ideas to make someone think “my bad idea is bad, and I’m not going to continue to push it” then that’s progress. Whether or not that’s he kind of shut down New Era was referring to, I don’t know, but I certainly don’t see how it’s “crazy.”
Regarding the second half of your comment, are you just.... unaware... of the progress made over the last 100 years as far as a woman’s place among men goes? A lot of industries, and a lot of career paths, are still male dominated in part because of certain stigmas and “boys clubs.” You’d have to be wilfully ignorant to believe that isn’t true. A ton of progress has been made, which should be noted, but putting on the blinders and saying there are no barriers to female advancement in many different industries is completely wrong.