A very interesting read. Why the left is afraid of Jordan Peterson.

[allgood33]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/08/why-the-left-is-so-afraid-of-jordan-peterson/567110/?utm_term=2018-12-21T16%3A08%3A43&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo&fbclid=IwAR0yH9wrXN6VWkJG_GfK-7bEJKRIluUxyDf3tq_ZpDYGkKjxFMXN1-0vqyI

Jordan Peterson.

[hlthe2b]

1. I skimmed it and found little that justifies the hysterical article title. Perhaps you could discuss

as it is obvious that I must have missed something...

[marylandblue]

3. Jordan Petersen is being underestimated

There's a generation of students not getting what they need out of academia. Petersen is speaking to those students and giving it to them. Some is common sense, some is way off base, but they don't have the tools to see through it and they don't have anything better to grab onto.

It's not the end of the left, but it is a challenge, particularly in education.

[hlthe2b]

4. thanks for posting your thoughts....

[marylandblue]

2. I think a lot of people on DU will dismiss Petersen

And ignore what he really represents.

[wasupaloopa]

5. Many like me never heard of him. I will find out who and what today, something to do.

[marylandblue]

6. Well fair enough, but he is someone to pay attention to

As a new type of right wing intellectual. We talks a lot about how identity politics is really Cultural Marxism and makes a lot of scary inferences from that. He got noticed when he opposed a law about hate speech in Canada, saying it force people to use people's preferred pronouns or go to jail (it doesn't say that). But it spoke to many people's anxiety about recent cultural changes, particularly the anxiety of young white males.

[GeorgeGist]

7. No wonder MAGAts love him ...

The Jordan Peterson All-Meat Diet

The famous psychologist and his daughter swear by a regimen of eating only beef. Restriction can provide a sense of order in a world of chaos—but at what point does restriction become a disorder?

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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/08/the-peterson-family-meat-cleanse/567613/

[hlthe2b]

8. great diet to promote colon cancer... perhaps he won't be a scourge for long...

Geebus...

[Moebym]

9. "The left" this and "the left" that

I could hardly take this seriously when the writer repeatedly uses that term in the article to refer to us and employs a rather condescending or scolding tone, much like a Fox News pundit would.

Rather than being impartial toward him, she seems to actually admire Jordan Peterson, and thinks we would all do well to follow his insidious guidance. And toward what goal?

[Nitram]

10. Yup. Any sentence on DU beginning "the left better" or "the left should" is guarantee to be bogus.

That's not how we on the left talk about ourselves.