I don’t understand why people are so quick to assume that the reason people don’t like Peterson is because they’ve been tricked into not liking him rather than because his philosophies are unlikable.
If you parrot what the mainstream media says about him, I don’t see why I should come to any other conclusion. It sounds to me like you made your mind up about him based on listening to him speak, which is great, but then were happy to incorporate negative reporting that reinforced your conclusions, like the enforced monogamy topic, rather than investigating it further.
I posted that article because I didn’t want everyone to just take my word for what he said. I haven’t parroted anything, either. I just complained about some guy that I don’t like. The reason I brought this up is because every single person that criticizes Peterson are just accused of not understanding him. Well I do understand him, and I’ve yet to hear a single cogent defense of his positions on anything from anyone. All I’ve heard is that I don’t understand him. I think Peterson is incredibly slippery and likes to word his statements in ways that he can duck out of them and just claim that everyone misunderstands him so that he doesn’t actually have to defend them.
some folks who binge-watched The Handmaid’s Tale and were looking for stuff to be angry about
Sheesh.
I have no idea what that show is about.
It’s a warning about a future that will never happen, but gets people riled up anyway.
By that logic, 1984 is just fear-mongering rather than an incredibly intelligent allegorical depiction of how potentially dystopian the future can be.
I didn’t say The Handmaid’s Tale was fear-mongering. I said it was a fictional future dystopia and made fun of people for binge-watching it and getting riled up over its contents.
If someone read 1984 and then smashed their smart TV because it was “watching” them, I’d laugh at them, too.
I’ll need a citation of a similar reaction to The Handmaid’s Tale.