An escapee from alt-right recruitment writes.
5 years ago
Of course, many of the folks who are already in the PewDiePipeline will ignore this, but feel free to pass it along to that guy who calls anyone he can't debate with 'SJW'. Some of them may recognize the cognitive dissonance.
https://archive.is/QMZ6F
https://archive.is/QMZ6F
Also a certificate error.
“”The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
—Jordan Peterson
He's also fond of labeling people 'cultural marxists', which is pretty much the domain of the alt-right these days, it being a recycled Nazi concept.
He managed to somehow praise Viktor Orbán for supporting academic freedom for standing up to gays and transfolk, while also ignoring what Victor was doing to academic freedom in every other way possible. Sure, he called him an authoritarian, but he also sat down with the man and praised him for being against political correctness. Orban's rejection of political correctness included actual anti semitism and holocaust denial. You'd think Jordan would have objected, a little.
He also manages to criticize Muslim countries for how they treat women, while supporting a rosy view of traditional, 16'th century European marriage customs.
Peterson has suggested that professors who disagree with him should be put on trial for treason.
Peterson claims a truly amazing array of unscientific woo. Among other things, he believes that only God can help you quit smoking and that psychoactive drugs are proof that God exists. On the other hand, he's stopped taking his medications, eats only beef, salt, and water, and claims to have not slept for 25 days straight.
That's why social justice extremists are bad for the transgender community. They make up a bunch of rules, demand people adhere to them and eventually become confused for being the actual representatives of people with gender dysphoria. Then people like the Prime Minister and friends go "Hey, this group of liberal people have an idea. They sure stand strongly for their idea. Well I'm a liberal too, just like them. I guess that means it's a good idea" and then poof: A new law that enforces compelled speech is born.
Also, not all transfolk have gender dysphoria. The two terms are not equivalent.
What's disgusting about the whole thing is that group A: people with a legitimate psychological challenge known as gender dysphoria, never asked group B: people who think because "gender's a social construct therefor I can just make up a bunch of words and call them genders", for their help. But nope, group B decided "Hey this also makes us trans too!" and because of all their "you must accept us!" the line gets blurred and people start to think that folks from the "xir" "xi" and "they" camp actually represents people with gender dysphoria, which they don't and never did.
Gender dysphoria = transgender.
Non gender dysphoria transtrenders = people who are a flaming bag of bad ideas.
They say the suicide rate among people with gender dysphoria is around 44% but quite frankly I won't be shocked if that number climbs because of transtrender assholes who just fuck things up with their bullshit.
As far as I'm concerned, if someone's going to just waltz right on in, set up shop and play "transgender pretend" because they want a slice of the "I'm special" cake without thinking about how their actions affect people with a legitimate psychological condition, they can go fuck themselves and anyone in support of the "xir" "xi" "they" "non-binary" folk can go eat a bullet for being the real enemy of people with gender dysphoria.
"The second necessity is that the condition should be connected with clinically important distress, or affects the individual significantly socially, at work, and in other import areas of life."
So, if you're trans and not distressed by it, you ain't dysphoric.
My takeaway is he was never "one of their own". He was convenient in a few narrow ways for his creative works. The alt-right focused on a few passages from his books, an unintentionally got a lot of their recruits to read them and start actually thinking for themselves. Peterson was never fully compatible with the agenda. So they waited for a dumbshit reason to attack.
Being used without consent by extremists doesn't make one an extremist. Even though assassins love his book, JD Salinger never said to kill anyone.
If this guy thinks pewdiepie either is a racist or creates racists, he never held the beliefs he professed to have held in the first place.
Additionally, the entire notion of someone's beliefs having consequences is pure partisan spew because beliefs cannot have consequences.
Are you suggesting beliefs don't lead to actions? Do you think people are not guided in their actions by their beliefs? I'm more than willing to entertain your argument, if you get around to making one.
I take it you've never heard of the radical concept of edgy jokes being funny because people know the reason they're edgy is because the views they bank their humor on are backward and incorrect?
As for edgy jokes, I'm uncertain that being backwards and incorrect necessarily makes them funny.
Consider the following joke:
Hitler, seeing how poorly the war is going, tells his guards to bring him a fortune teller. The only guy they can find is an old Jewish man they had to pull out of a prison camp. So, they clean him up, throw a costume on him, and set him up with a crystal ball. Hitler comes in and sits, and the old man gazes into the ball.... "Ahh!"; the man exclaims! "I see you dying on a Jewish holiday!". Hitler is shocked, and stammers out 'But, what Jewish Holiday?" The old fortuneteller says "Believe me, whatever day it is, we'll make a holiday!".
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So, we've got all the makings of an edgy joke - ethnic speech patterns, Nazis, an unlikely situation, the Holocaust.... Is it backward and incorrect? Would you classify it as a joke Neo-Nazis would like?
As for your joke, it isn't edgy. It celebrates the end of the holocaust. You might want to reevaluate your definition of edgy.
I'm sorry if my joke lacks enough edge for you. What would have made it more edgy? Racism?
Also, jokes are supposed to have a punch line. You might need to update your definition of 'joke'.
In the case of acceptability, the numbers are irrelevant because extremist fuckwads gonna extremist fuckwad, and you literally can't get rid of extremist fuckwads.
How much censorship do you find acceptable?
Also, nice non-answer. I see why people block you rather than debating you.
The thing about your Muh Private Cumpny™ point is that if a platform doesn't allow speech that doesn't directly violate someone's rights (credible threats, libel/slander, direct incitement), then it isn't a platform. It's a publisher. And if they specifically disallow the voicing of particular opinions, guess what? that's called censorship.
#2, take Twitter for example. It provides government services such as weather alerts, thus cannot be considered a private platform.