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> We're not talking about 200 students in this case. We're talking about one on one conversation with one person. That's when pronouns matter. Professors never
by jnbiche 9y ago
> We're not talking about 200 students in this case. We're talking about one on one conversation with one person. That's when pronouns matter.
Professors never engage in one-on-one conversation with their students? And they never refer to their students in the third-person within the classroom?
> And using the coercion as justification for not doing it is, bluntly, an excuse. It's turning around and claiming yourself the victim of what you do to others.
I don't think Peterson sees himself as a victim, at all. I think he's alarmed and outraged that proscriptive laws governing his speech have been passed. And as an American who's pretty happy with our 1st amendment, I agree with him.
I mean, forget for a moment that this is concerning transgender rights. If a country like Canada continues to outlaw certain ways of speaking, at what point would that concern you? Or would it ever?
- beat 9y agoI fail to see the distinction between "he's alarmed and outraged that proscriptive laws governing his speech have been passed", and seeing himself as a victim of oppression. But this distinction seems very important to some people, who object to my characterization of him as a self-styled victim of oppression. Just because he doesn't use the word "oppression" in that context doesn't mean it isn't his broad meaning. Coercion and oppression are more or less interchangeable.