Re:Why Is Jordan Peterson So Popular?
by dragonwriter on Friday August 10, 2018 @12:41PM
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> Is it weird the article is full of outright lies, qualified only by the weaseliest of hedges?
Considering the author, not really. Both that and the particular ideological bent seem quite par for the course.
But even with that, this part still made me laugh out loud:
> When even Barack Obama, the poet laureate of identity politics, is moved to issue a message to the faithful, hinting that that they could be tipping their hand on all of this—saying during a speech he delivered in South Africa that a culture is at a dead end when it decides someone has no “standing to speak” if he is a white man
Like, on what planet is this a line anyone can say with a straight face? A big part of Obama's broad appeal—for which he was criticized almost as intensely by identity politics activists as his center-right economics were by economic progressives—was avoiding narrow identity politics. If you had to pick a recent leading figure in the Democratic Party to decribe as the “poet laureate of identity politics” (a term which in any case better applies to one of the thought leaders in that movement than any politician), it would have to be Hillary Clinton. Obama cautioning against going overboard with identity politics is decidedly not some surprising sign that things have recently gone far off the tracks, it's what Obama has always done.
The only basis I can see for this labelling is that it follows along with a lot of the racist lies told about Obama that went into high gear when we was nominated and higher gear when he was elected.
Considering the author, not really. Both that and the particular ideological bent seem quite par for the course.
But even with that, this part still made me laugh out loud:
> When even Barack Obama, the poet laureate of identity politics, is moved to issue a message to the faithful, hinting that that they could be tipping their hand on all of this—saying during a speech he delivered in South Africa that a culture is at a dead end when it decides someone has no “standing to speak” if he is a white man
Like, on what planet is this a line anyone can say with a straight face? A big part of Obama's broad appeal—for which he was criticized almost as intensely by identity politics activists as his center-right economics were by economic progressives—was avoiding narrow identity politics. If you had to pick a recent leading figure in the Democratic Party to decribe as the “poet laureate of identity politics” (a term which in any case better applies to one of the thought leaders in that movement than any politician), it would have to be Hillary Clinton. Obama cautioning against going overboard with identity politics is decidedly not some surprising sign that things have recently gone far off the tracks, it's what Obama has always done.
The only basis I can see for this labelling is that it follows along with a lot of the racist lies told about Obama that went into high gear when we was nominated and higher gear when he was elected.