It’s pretty interesting to see so many people in this thread repeating the claims of the NYT Op-Ed as fact as though Jordan Peterson is some far right ghoul. Fr

It’s pretty interesting to see so many people in this thread repeating the claims of the NYT Op-Ed as fact as though Jordan Peterson is some far right ghoul. From what I’ve read of him, he seems pretty classically liberal and small c conservative, but because he made the pronoun thing an issue of free speech the assumption is that he’s some far right crusader. Normally I think the Times is pretty solid, but they led with this distorted claim equating enforced monogamy with female slavery (irresponsibly, I think) and seem unable to rationally parse what Peterson is saying because of his infamy for being on the “wrong” side of the pronoun debate. It’s a symptom of the age that no one wants to do the work of thinking through what people say and it’s exactly this looseness and lack of critical assessment that, ironically, permits demagogues to say and do outrageous things.