I think I tend to lean on the individualists side, as I don't feel that the offspring is responsible for the sins of their fathers. I also don't think they are responsible for the successes of their fathers. I would just disagree with him on having pride in your people/country. I just don't view him in my mind as a politics character and I suppose the answer is "bro you're on KIA2 of course we look at things politically first and foremost", but, he's not very interesting to me politically. I like him for his religious stuff or profesionally for self authoring, and it's just so strange watching people get so heated around the topic of him.
Overall I at least see where you're coming from groups vs individuals. I just suppose I do lay more on his side of things. I was raised LDS and they have an article of faith that I didn't understand as a child that I think is the demarcation line that makes sense to me on that topic.
“We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression”
Especially as someone who has sinned plenty during his lifetime, I have enough reasons that I myself can damn myself over, I don't need the guilt of every sin that my fore-fathers committed laid at my feet, and while I am literally in awe and have a deep reverence for what my fore-fathers did and for which I will always be thankful for, my honest conviction about what sort of responsibility or relationship we have with the past was what woke me up from being a lefist a long time ago. I wasn't about to repent for something I didn't do as I was already rather busy trying to make amends for my actions. The past is a source of pride and inspiration, but I don't feel any ownership over their actions, only that I should emulate the best of them.
In case of him, making him a villain, the "face" of the enemy makes him more appealing to people like you who, like many have done with Trump
I originally only knew of Peterson because of him being a Psychologist, not a political or social pundit. At the time I worked at a company that produced a product similar to Self Authoring, but we sold it to probation officers to help them come up with treatment/case plans for passing probation, so I knew of him professionally.
Non-profesionally, I like him for his take on Psychology and Religion, especially as someone who deconverted from the radical left. Fifteen years ago I was a drug using self-hating marxist that laid the sins of the world at the feet of white people, so I don't really see his branding of the left as that as all too inaccurate when I myself have been what he describes. I might watch the video, but if you selectively edit Peterson's lecture, you can make him out as extremely against the far left, or extremely against the far right, when as far as I can tell, he's against both.
Ah, that fills out the picture. I really hope 200 Years Together gets fully translated one day. I'm on Vol 2 out of 3 of The Gulag Archipelago and I'm certainly interested in what else he had to say, even if he wrote it far after the events had transpired.
It didn't. Within minutes of looking around I found out about this place where they electrocute kids to this day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Rotenberg_Educational_Center
The device they use was banned by the FDA in 2020, but they were given an administrative stay on that ban, allowing them to use it on people they have already used it on because of, of course, the coronavirus pandemic.
Just read this shit. What the fuck. https://autistichoya.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/fda-notice-of-stay-filed-with-court-of-appeals.pdf
Thank you for making me aware of this.
The craziest irony of it is that you can find posts from 7-10 years ago on reddit as people openly cheered as the place was exposed and ultimately stopped, on reddit.
Now? They ban a survivor of it telling his story. Insane.
Literally this week where he said that both rural and inner city Blacks and Hispanics don't know how to use the internet.
I'm still right that this is the kind of pathetic low-grade pornography that the left churned out for 4 years and we shouldn't act like scumfuck lying communists just because they do it. Why not let your wife get fucked by someone else, because as long as we're emulating communists might as well go full ham on it.
Biden has said actually real racist things, bullshit like this is a complete circlejerk that will persuade literally zero people who voted for him as to the truth of his character. This is not "fighting back" in any sense of the phrase and is just emotional pornography for ourselves, and I would argue this is really low-grade shit porn that only accomplishes being repulsive, as he clearly was just being his normal near-comatose corpse-self who slurred another word into "eager" because he can barely fucking talk most of the time.
Honestly, the argument I see y'all making that "well the communists & media lied about what Trump said on the daily, so we have free reign to give tit for tat" is about the dumbest fucking shit I've heard. No one on the left will give a fuck about this, no one is being held to any standard. You're just jumping into the communists' shit pit to roll around. Just like we didn't give a fuck when Trump was misquoted, and it was just the left fellating themselves daily to feel better while tears streamed down their faces. No thanks guys, I'll not suck my own dick just because the commies do it. If what you're doing is hoping to catch someone in a "gotcha!" racist moment you're operating within their fucking framework. You do not win a cultural war by acting like the other side.
If you just wanna make fun of a dying authoritarian who is actively working against our country, people, and possibly even humanities interest in general I get that and appreciate the hell out of that desire, but the idea that he said nigger here at all is just so fucking stupid.
Okay, I can follow your logic here. I just don't follow on the "and their role within the system is fundamentally different." part. Especially as I'm reading through The Gulag Archipeligo, to me they seem hauntingly similar. At the most basic level, it is people with nothing organizing to take everything from those with means. Just as they would decry the Bourgeois, now they have the Patriarchy. It's mutated almost beyond recognition, absolutely, but it's the same kind of resentful hate filled morons who believe or practice either.
If by "western politics" you mean "what is allowed on the news" I agree. Personally though I've always found people willing to discuss and entertain rather radical ideas. Just curious, what sort of system would you consider yourself a proponent for?