Penguin Random House Staff Confront Publisher About New Jordan Peterson Book
Read the whole thing. It's absolutely great.
Another employee said “people were crying in the meeting about how Jordan Peterson has affected their lives.” They said one co-worker discussed how Peterson had radicalized their father and another, who is talked about how publishing the book will negatively affect their non-binary friend.
These people are NUTS.
And if you believe that Random House is innocent in all of this, think again.
“The company since June has been doing all these anti-racist and allyship things and them publishing Peterson’s book completely goes against this. It just makes all of their previous efforts seem completely performative,” the employee added.
People will know what to do with the books of publishers such as this. I will buy Jordan Peterson's book, and that's it.
Some of the schisms going on on the left are so fascinating. You have a (presumably) young staffer at a major publisher thinking "People started crying" will make their case more sympathetic, a sympathetic journalist clearly agreeing, and then most normal liberals' reactions.
At one point my editor asked if I wanted to consider doing a chapter on JP. I read half of 12 Rules and there was just not enough to latch onto. It is dense and overwritten but it is really just self-help. Less evidence of outright wrongness than the other ideas I critique.
To be fair, he brings it in to himself a little bit because his schtick is kinda being deliberately edgy sometimes. Like there’s no way he didn’t see the “compel girlfriends” thing getting away from him
"Enforced monogamy" is neutral jargon for the idea he was referring to. It's not "compel girlfriends."
Was it enforced? I remember him saying something more like societal or culturally encouraged monogamy
That's what it means: a social expectation of monogamy.
It doesn't mean a goon squad compelling people to get married.
This is a good example of their ongoing projection.
Anything they would expect to be societally enforced -will- be enforced by a goon squad, as we have seen over the past summer. The idea that shared cultural values put in place an inherent expectation that you behave in a proper way is just not in the cards for them.
lol way off, but you still knew exactly what I was referring to
Screw that. Sources up or no one will believe you