Re:Jordan B Peterson, Critical Theory, and the New Bourgeoisie
by jules on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:03PM
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I don't think that tactic works poorly in that format at all, it's just that this person is incredibly good at defending against it. Very few people could withstand such an interview.
Re:Jordan B Peterson, Critical Theory, and the New Bourgeoisie
by quantumofmalice on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:31AM
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Exactly. This tactic breaks all but maybe a thousand people in the world. I wouldn't have lasted two minutes, I would have just blown up at her and embarrassed myself.
We are very lucky to have Jordan Peterson, one of those very few people, to speak for free speech.
Re:Jordan B Peterson, Critical Theory, and the New Bourgeoisie
by su30mki117 on Friday January 19, 2018 @09:59AM
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Jordan Peterson might have defended well compared to an average person, but I was still surprised too see him uncomfortable and expending extra energy to answer the questions than what I expected. Those were hard questions, but he would have surely expected those kind of questions before going to the interview. He did not look well prepared, and some of his answers lacked the clarity and punch which we can usually see in his youtube lectures.
Re:Jordan B Peterson, Critical Theory, and the New Bourgeoisie
by mal808 on Saturday January 20, 2018 @05:49AM
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How could anyone not expend extra energy when faced with that sort of interview "technique". I thought he handled it very well. How did he not look prepared? Some of here questions were so off the point of what they were discussing it'd be hard not to react aggressively. I think that's what you're seeing, him holding back. I mean, we should organise our society like "the lobsters"?? WTF?
Re:Jordan B Peterson, Critical Theory, and the New Bourgeoisie
by throwaway1748 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:29PM
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good point.
Practitioners of this form of argument intentionally mis-represent the other side to form a strawman argument. This works exceptionally well on Twitter, where someone quote-tweets their adversary, intentionally warping their words with the intention to shame. Some people have called this tactic "dunking on" their opponent.
Those tactics work very poorly in this 1-to-1 format, in part because of the longform nature, but mostly because one can't instantly appeal to an outside audience for likes/retweets.