Jordan B Peterson - is he the dad you never had?

When I am factually disadvantaged at getting places in some universities and schemes due to my race I would say that is a textbook case of racism and opression.

Or when you are privileged having your privilege threatens feels opressive.

So it is no surprise the majority of his supporters and indeed those who purchased Jordan's self-help book "12 Rules for Life: An antidote to chaos" are radicalised young men.

He is an anti-PC version of Slavoj Zizek. It seems a lot of easily influenced men can not see beyond the main quality he shares with Zizek, namely pseudo-intellectualism.

I don't disagree that being a white man is beneficial, but the way you've framed that sounds very dismissive of any problems a young white man may have and leads to them gravitating towards someone like Peterson

As a white straight man with a **** tonne of problems I am fully aware of this. I'm 25, unemployed and live with my parents and I have had no girlfriend ever. AS a teenager I used video games as a coping mechanism for life. The lure of the red pill should be iresistable.

For some reason I never gravited to the right though. Quite the opposite.

It probably explains why I have so little sympathy to racist and sexists nerds.

Stupidity is to try the same thing over and over and expect a different result. Your current strategy of prostrating yourself before your feminist overlords clearly hasn't been too sucessful so far.

It's never too late to reclaim your balls mate.

Or I'm not trying to use politics to get laid.

yes your white male privalidge is being yanked away and it hurts

Yup, all the white males who come from disadvantaged backgrounds and grew up in deprived areas being discriminated against, all so that non-whites from privileged backgrounds who were privately educated or went to good schools get further advantages when it comes to getting places at top universities. Because "muh white privilege", right?

Everything everyone does is directly and solely related to getting laid. It's what everyone is here for.

That's called class and if you haven't noticed I'm a socialist. Don't worry I'm on it

This is part of the problem though. The death of class based politics means poeple who do have real reasons to be pissed off don;t have any way to express it. When all liberalism is unable to address class issues, the right will swoop in and blame the darkies and womenz.

That is indeed called class, well done. Now either privilege comes from class or it comes from your skin colour, choose one.

As a white straight man with a **** tonne of problems I am fully aware of this. I'm 25, unemployed and live with my parents and I have had no girlfriend ever. AS a teenager I used video games as a coping mechanism for life. The lure of the red pill should be iresistable.

For some reason I never gravitated to the right though. Quite the opposite.

It probably explains why I have so little sympathy to racist and sexists nerds.

Different people gravitate towards different things, sometimes it just comes down to which link you select online

Intersectionality will blow your mind.

"
Intersectionality is a theory which considers that the various aspects of humanity, such as class, race, sexual orientation, disability and gender, do not exist separately from each other, but are complexly interwoven, and that their relationships are essential to an understanding of the human condition. When systems of justice or other entities attempt to look at each aspect in isolation, then misconceptions may occur and essential understandings may be lost.^[1][2] Rather than thinking of identity as a collection of separate elements, it is better understood if the elements are thought of as "inextricably linked" with each other, and that all aspects of identity are "integral, interlocking parts of a whole""

In other worlds. We need fully automated gay space communism right now!

Working class white men and feminist women should not be enemies. They should be comrades.

It's a popular buzzword that leaked from academia into mainstream culture, used now among leftists and minority fundamentalists who engage in white western guilt culture and victimhood Olympics.

Yet you make sweeping generalisations about white men having privilege (just like feminist women do all the time).

I'm useing the academic version. Consdiering the development of radical politics since the 60s it's seems a pretty crucial concept to undertand what has been going on in the last decades.

You just used a load of right wing buzzwords.

But I am a white male. I have first hand experience. Just fof the top of my head. I never had to feel out of place doing Physics. Or put up with a load of young men making constant vulger sex jokes at me. I don't have to feel physically or verbally threatened from sexual assult and harrassment at work.

Everything everyone does is directly and solely related to getting laid. It's what everyone is here for.

Discovering Noam Chomsky was certainly a big rabbit hole to fall down for undergraduate daniel. All that time reading about Spannish anarchists instead of studying physics.

I equally fell down a Christipher Hitchens rabbit hole (Before Chomsky I think). Which given what a lot of his fan base is like... you would have tohugh ti could have gone the other way. Although he was an ex Trot so...Religion is the opiate of the people and all that.

I think it is a character trait though. I always disliked bullies and kids who wouldn't share when I was a young whipper. Capitalism always seemed like a system that was unfair and I was on the receiving end of the boot. The notion of working to amke someone else rich seemed massivly depressing to me as a child and teenager. Socialism is generally a pretty good inoculation against rigth wing identity politics I think. You just generally find yourself allied to other marginalised groups and you have common ground with being opressed in some way. I had no particular reason to even think about Trans people, but you just end up being on the same side. We all want rid of the Tories. That was my experience anyway.

It never even occured to me to start developing a hatred of women.

Use whatever version you want, doesn't change the fact that the word is ambiguous and has no specific parameters. Taken out of the confines of academia and placed into society it becomes nothing more than a buzzword and an empty slogan.

Guilt culture is clearly defined and more than just a buzzword.

Cool, not sure what your point is here.

I don't want to generalise his audience but I believe they're mainly American? Maybe that would explain why there's more right-wing tendencies to his followers. British kids and youngsters will always tend to gravitate towards Socialism more than Americans would