Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1208: https://youtu.be/vIeFt88Hm8s
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Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1208: https://youtu.be/vIeFt88Hm8s
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0:44 Who was executed by Stalin?
How ironic that Peterson blusters on about "hate" and "victimization" when his entire discourse–which is historically uninformed, mildly fascistic, and suffused with bad faith–vilifies and indeed demonizes anyone committed to equality or social justice, even as he presents as victims the members of dominant social groups whose relative social advantages are in no doubt. Peterson is a dangerous man. He caters to men who feel frustrated and confused and need somebody to blame. And what better, more convenient scapegoats than feminists, civil rights activists, and leftist academics–marginalized, powerless groups whose only moral sin is to challenge the status quo? For that they must be rooted out and destroyed. But in fact it's Peterson, a demagogue who has made millions from spouting hate and propaganda, who is the true elitist with totalitarian tendencies.
Jordan Peterson overestimates the extent to which our society is meritocratic. It is actually based on power more than he would like to admit. Also, you have to consider bandwidth issues. It is extremely expensive for the government and the courts to go down to the level of the individual. It is a practical issue, not a philosophical one. You have to use group identity because government doesn't have the bandwidth to look at the smallest minority, the individual.
The reason I hate identity politics is because people who value themselves to less than an insignificant identifier on a cheap piece of paper or their arbitrary use their genitalia think they are good enough to tell everyone what and who they are. I'm not white, black, brown, or whatever I am Daniel. There are many with my name, but I'm still anatomically unique not some insignificant title idiots made up on 4chan that does absolutely nothing. It disgusts me that these people value themselves so little they think they need these things. No matter how much you believe yourself to be virtuous or morally better by excepting these titles you will always be inferior to any human who understands and excepts his or her unique existence.
I agree broadly with his argument re-identity politics and their broad scope. However the Russian Revolution failed due to its isolation, the devastation caused by the civil war and ww1, economic backwardness and a tiny working class. All of these contributed to a Stalinist counter-revolution. Not the ideology of the bolsheviks and it’s misuse. Though he is also correct that class struggle and the brutality of the time resulted in lots of collective rather than individual justice and atrocities committed by all sides. The Nazis used racial, genetic and national distinctions to justify their atrocities whilst Stalin and Stalinists used class struggle. He takes aspects of Soviet history, oversimplifies them and twists them.