8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

Mandy Lau digs into the specifics of Bill C-63, Canada's proposed Online Harms Act.

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Rule number 6 has been shattered.

Canada is known for its moderate liberal-left stance, lacking a deeply entrenched far-right movement or extreme right-wing media—a phenomenon termed Canadian exceptionalism (Peker and Winter 2024). Despite this, Canada has produced a globally famous conservative intellectual, Jordan Peterson, and Canada was the site of the 2022 Freedom Convoy where truckers shut down the Canadian capital, Ottawa, for days in protest against vaccine mandates. This has led some to view Canada as a breeding ground for right-wing extremism even though the far right remains marginal in Canada compared to Germany, France, or the USA. This paper argues that the paradox of Canada producing Peterson and a massive populist revolt can be explained by exploring the prominence of Canadian conservative and far-right internet personalities, such as Ezra Levant and Lauren Southern. This Canadian paradox flows from the weakness of right-wing parties and media, coupled with Trudeau’s elitist liberalism administration and a progressive-leaning media. These conditions and the lack of open debate they create, assisted by the international reach of the English language, facilitated the remarkable rise of multiple Canadian figures in global right-wing discourse online, despite the relative weakness of the organized political right. Peterson’s fame highlights how elitist liberalism can produce an internet-based reaction against itself. The internet has functioned as a place of refuge for Canadian conservatives deemed to be beyond the pale of the domestic political culture. Whether or not these figures can leverage their global internet popularity to spark a populist movement within the mainstream Canadian political sphere is explored in this article.

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It was Joe Biden who — now famously — started his campaign for the American Presidency by speaking of a battle for the soul of democracy. As it turns out, that notion was prescient. Biden was…

Jordan Peterson's thought is filled with pseudo-science, bad pop psychology, and deep irrationalism. In other words, he’s full of shit.

A British broadcaster doggedly tried to put words into the academic’s mouth.

I hoped he was done damaging the discourse and would stick to psychology, but instead, he came out against fighting climate change.

Richard Poplak reviews 12 Rules For Life by Jordan B Peterson, ‘the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now’. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Jordan B Peterson Allen Lane, 2018 This is just the fucking worst. Imagine a self-help book written by the Dart

Thankfully, since his meteoric rise to the public consciousness five-odd years ago, Jordan Peterson doesn’t get nearly as much mainstream media attention as he used to. The glowing write-ups and…

Dr Gabor Mate talks about what he sees when he reads Dr Jordan Peterson.

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It is imperative to ask why and how this obscure Canadian academic, who insists that gender and class hierarchies are ordained by nature and validated by science, has suddenly come to be hailed as the West’s most influential public intellectual. Peterson rails against “softness,” arguing that men have been “pushed too hard to feminize,” like other hyper-masculinist thinkers before him who saw compassion as a vice and urged insecure men to harden their hearts against the weak (women and minorities) on the grounds that the latter were biologically and culturally inferior. Peterson’s ageless insights are, in fact, a typical, if not archetypal, product of our own times: right-wing pieties seductively mythologized for our current lost generations.

Lux Copp's answer: I live in the same province as Dr. Jordan Peterson: Ontario, Canada. I’m familiar with the context of the debates and I’ve been to his talks. I support Peterson and anyone’s right not to be required by law to use any certain words. I agree with a lot of the points he has brough...

This is a sub for posting all Peterson tomfoolery. Links to Twitter shenanigans, interviews, essays, and *some* memes are welcome. Cross posts are okay but stuff from the Peterson sub should be a day old. Don't include usernames in screenshots unless they're from public figures. Questions and discussions of various sorts are welcome too until they aren't.

1/5: I see many five-star reviews here, so here is the contrarian position. I’m giving this one star for a couple of reasons. 1. The content does not justify the length of the book. When you strip away the pseudo-profundity and verbosity, you’re left with rather simple ideas you could find in any self-help book or discover on your own. Rule # 1, for instance, essentially states that females prefer males with confidence and that success breeds confidence and further success. This is rather obvious without having to understand the evolutionary history of lobsters. 2. The introduction of the bo...

Jordan Peterson’s recent musings on what he calls “postmodern neomarxism” — enriched by hours of careful research on Wikipedia — are a reminder that when it comes to intellectuals, the reactionary right isn’t sending its best.

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Speaking on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Peterson claimed the climate was too complex to be modelled accurately, which was quickly shot down by scientists

Jordan Peterson’s popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape…

Edit to add: I have received comments and DMs about the portion I empathize with Peterson. I can't edit this video, but maybe future people will see this fir...