Post-benzos JP crying about anon culture
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Anonymity should be required online.
Doxing should be criminal offence and witness protection put in place to remove connection between the on-line persona and the IRL person (at doxer's expense).
It's called deadnaming because the penalty is death.
For someone who claims to be a communism and authoritarianism expert, this is a really galaxy brain take.
Jordan, the reason we need anonymity is because nobody should have to lose their job, friends, family, and life ruined just because of trolling i.e. being an asshole. If you are an ass in real life, people will dislike you and react proportionately, but like anything else on the Internet, the mob will amplify the issue beyond any reasonable limit.
You literally were on the receiving end of this multiple times because your real identity was exposed by a random asshat that felt you deserved scrutiny from the entire world. The world likes nothing more than to pass judgement on someone it deems lesser- to the point you needed medicating for your mental health. Stop trying to inflict your trauma on everyone else.
He is right to point out the problem with anonymity in group think. It absolutely makes it worse. But part of the issue is that if we had a stronger localized community structure, we wouldn't need anonymous online accounts.
If the Twitter lynch mob weren't more powerful than our associations to our friends, family, and community; the lynch mob wouldn't mean anything. The problem is that we don't have local associations like that. Society is atomotized to the point that the TV man and the Twitter mob can influence your friends and family more than you can. That's what we saw during Covid.
Now, unfortunately, we all will have no other choice but to come out of the dark and fight in the light. And yes, that means getting our friends, family, home, and career targeted. But that's why we also want to have built those relationships stronger than the Twitter mob's hyperreality. When you step into the light: you'll have no choice. All you'll have left are people who say: "I don't care about what Twitter thinks about you".
I think it's more the group than the anonymity- crowd mentality can easily push normal people in real life to do things they normally wouldn't even consider.
Jordan's biggest problem is that he's an "acceptable target", so he would still get trolled and receive death threats even if identities were exposed. Forced identification primarily hurts those who need to remain anonymous for their protection e.g. Christians in Muslim nations, whistle blowers etc.
Just dox yourself bro.
I want to know why he thinks this isn't just a 100% recreation of China's Social Credit system, and why it's suddenly okay to expose the world's most sinister and evil people to anyone and everyone with the real names attached.
I want to know why he thinks that the rocketing government authoritarianism he's spent the last decade of his career trying to rally people against won't utilize this sudden database of identities to crack down on dissidents (like they love to do in his home country of Canada).
I want to know why he thinks that the average person doesn't have the right to shout their voice out into the audience of the world, and if it's valuable enough, be exalted for it outside of the confines of academia.
I fear Mr. Peterson has simply become too old, fragile, and afraid to operate in the marketplace of ideas any longer, and instead chooses to sacrifice every last facet of his liberty for a little security. Shame be upon him.
It's because his wealth and fame protects him
He can safely criticize Trudeau while living as a celebrity in the US.
His psychologist regulator can symbolically strip his license, but it doesn't affect him because he never intends to treat patients again as a millionaire globetrotting author.
The left's attempts at canceling him freed him from the monotony of socialist university life and instead raised him into the club of the elite, hobnobbing with the likes of Rogan and Dave Rubin.
Clean your room.
Jordan Peterson is not a force for good.
He has motivated a lot of people, including myself, toward exploring Christianity. If you were raised in a purely liberal/materialist/anti-theist upbringing you don't have a framework from which you can honestly investigate sacred ideas and concepts. JP can start the ball rolling without triggering the embedded liberal "failsafes" that normally shut people down.
He is also a gatekeeper against the "far right", as in logical conclusions that commies don't like, but by the time people going that direction run into the gate a lot of them are much more willing to look through the fence toward the other side.
jordan peterson is an "intelleckshual" weirdo. people only like him because he focused his shit talking on lefties & triggered them, but he says a lot of dumb shit all the time & sniffs his own farts.