A genuine conversation with this man would be more enlightening than any I’ve had around here, that’s for sure.
I would still question him about his overuse of highfalutin terms, painting many worthy modern liberal strains of thought with the Marxist brush. About why he’s trying so hard to shoehorn an economic theory (Marxism) into describing cultural matters — and whether he’s aware of the toxic history behind some of the terms he uses.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/opinion/cultural-marxism-anti-semitism.amp.html
I’d ask him what he thinks about the fact that identity-based affinity movements have been continually met with resistance throughout history. A Hegelian dialectic implies forces for change being met with opposite forces of resistance. Conflict ensues. But it is not sensible to automatically heap blame upon those seeking change, particularly in instances when such change is welcome.
Which we’ve seen many times in our history: the abolition of slavery, women attaining the right to vote, the Civil Rights Act, gay marriage, and much else besides. These things didn’t happen on their own by magic. People had to assert their claims, and each and every one of these movements was met with fierce resistance in its time. Eventually the dust settles and we start to take the progress for granted, but it can always be rolled back.
Perhaps the starkest example of this is in the Middle East, where many countries today are less socially free than they were 50 or 60 years ago.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3521596/amp
This article does a good takedown of Peterson.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/04/jordan-peterson-capitalism-postmodernism-ideology
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