Truth U dies when it becomes intellectually uniform or politically orthodox.įancy this: our most important heterodox academic in the world does not always takes sides, but when he does, he sides with Truth.
It sees political diversity as an obstacle to action. In it, Peterson recalls a piece by Jonathan Haidt, in which there is this gem. But what caught my eye was his message to millenials. You may have heard of his role in the controversy over gender-neutral pronouns. The whole tactics of blaming the Left and by extension SJWs for political correctness thus falters.
Interestingly, they found that PC is not a purely left-wing phenomenon but is better understood as the manifestation of a general offense sensitivity, which is then employed for either liberal or conservative ends. The researchers found that PC exists, can be reliably measured, and has two major dimensions. It made me conclude that the study revealed more about Freedom Fighters than about SJWs and underlined why we need to be thankful for contrarian concerns. In the current study, contamination disgust and the order and traditionalism dimension were all related, suggesting a greater similarity between PC-Authoritarians and Right-Wing authoritarians than either side would probably like to admit! A common finding in the psychological literature is a positive association between conservative belief and sensitivity to disgust. For one, the findings on PC-Authoritarianism highlight some similarities with right-wing authoritarianism. It took a few hours for a Denizen to appreciate the finding: Great stuff! PC authoritarians have a high incidence of personality disorders. Part of agreeableness is seeking consensus, which although nice-sounding, concludes by identifying those outside the consensus as a threat. One of the traits that characterises Leftists is so-called agreeableness although its expression can turn out to be very disagreeable. In the following note, I am pleased to report some evidence that Freedom Fighters may become a sound meme. Whiteness as Digital Imaginary: SJW as Boundary Object
The woke students may not be predominant, but they are vocal and loud and activist. There are almost 7, undergraduates at Harvard, yet the tenure protest was attended by fewer than 50 students, and a few hundred signed the letters urging the administration to fire Sullivan. He admits that yes, this happens sometimes at Harvard, but he attributes wokeness to a vocal minority. Here we have two editorials purporting to say different things, but in the end reaching nearly identical conclusions. Whiteness as Digital Imaginary: SJW as Boundary Object.This paper examines the cultural politics of a conjunctural moment where the terms of neoliberal hegemony have been destabilized and the far right has been reinvigorated. File Name: will shetterly social justice warrior.