If you've touched an internet comment section in the last several years, that stuff is all pretty typical conservative thought -- political correctness is the only true oppression, etc. In Peterson's world, there is little difference between a brutal communist dictatorship and being able to identify as a gender different than the one you were assigned at birth on your driver's license. It's all a big slippery slope leading toward anyone who's ever had any sort of "privilege" being sent to the killing fields. Any attempt to agitate for equality is a sham by someone who ultimately wants to oppress you for their benefit.
This is a man who responded to a Justin Trudeau tweet offering generic praise of women's rights movements by accusing Trudeau of supporting a "murderous equity doctrine." This is a man who worries that acquiescing to gay marriage and associated rights like hospital visitation has done nothing to stem the tide of demands that "radical left neo-Marxist types are placing on traditional society." In opposition to a Canadian hate speech law he called the "vanguard" of an "ideological war," he said he was willing to go to jail rather than address his trans students with the pronouns they requested, even as legal experts pointed out that the bar to prove hate speech was a mountain that towered over Peterson's tiny molehill. Peterson is the least chill Canadian in history.
So what makes him different from the literally thousands of grifters profiting from the insecurity of young white dudes? Well ...
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