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Re:Why Is Jordan Peterson So Popular? by sp332 on Friday August 10, 2018 @01:14PM (#17735107)
I don't see the first claim anywhere in the article. It's pretty explicitly about the left, not identity politics apart from the left. Is identity politics supposed to be about voting for people based on their demographics? Because that's not what the Wikipedia article says, so if you could point me to a definition of what we're discussing I think it would help.
Re:Why Is Jordan Peterson So Popular? by pluto9 on Friday August 10, 2018 @01:31PM (#17735225)
> I don't see the first claim anywhere in the article.

Seriously? From the article:

> All across the country, there are people as repelled by the current White House as they are by the countless and increasingly baroque expressions of identity politics that dominate so much of the culture. These are people who aren’t looking for an ideology; they are looking for ideas. And many of them are getting much better at discerning the good from the bad. The Democratic Party reviles them at its peril; the Republican Party takes them for granted in folly.

Were you expecting the article to use my exact wording?

I won't bother defining identity politics for you because you clearly know what it is and how it relates to voting blocs.

It's obvious that you're only interested in derailing the discussion with endless pedantry, so have a nice day.

Re:Why Is Jordan Peterson So Popular? by dragonwriter on Friday August 10, 2018 @01:26PM (#17735200)
> It's pretty explicitly about the left, not identity politics apart from the left.

It explicitly addresses right-wing identity politics briefly, but mostly to note that one particular repulsive group practicing of those politics rejected Peterson as a kind of validation of Peterson through combination of guilt by association and affirming the consequent, and secondarily to further discredit left-wing identity politics by simple guilt by association.

Re:Why Is Jordan Peterson So Popular? by sp332 on Friday August 10, 2018 @01:52PM (#17735395)
Ok, thanks. I misread that as the alt-right group's endorsement of Peterson.