He first gained notoriety in 2016 facing
down a mob of University of Toronto students who accosted him for voicing his
opposition. This first act of defiance was met with letters of reprimand from
the administration. The expected response is capitulation. One strongly worded
letter is all that is usually required to whip a heretic free-thinker into compliance
with academy groupthink.
But Peterson did the unthinkable—he fought back. He made a
three-part series of video lectures, "Professor against political correctness,” exposing the dangers of the social justice warriors’ newspeak. The three YouTube lectures led
to the “The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast,” and eventually, his new 2018 book, “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.”
Soon after his initial 15 minutes of
fame, he appeared on a British news program. The aftermath guaranteed that his
fame was destined to last considerably longer than the fabled “fifteen.”
Feminist
journalist Cathy Newman, also a psychologist, interviewed Peterson for British Channel
4. She spent 30 minutes throwing every feminist trope at Peterson—all of which
he confidently countered with air-tight logic and erudition. I counted over 10
million views of the interview on the first page of YouTube listings alone.
One exchange from the interview demonstrates why the Left is scared shitless of Peterson. (And if you doubt that they are, just google his name and see the plethora of anti-Peterson listings, many with the word “dangerous” in the title.)
Newman
hits Peterson with this:
Okay. You cited freedom of speech in
that. Why should your right to freedom of speech trump a trans person’s right,
not to be offended?
Now, before I give Peterson’s
response, let me give what would be my response, that of someone with a quarter-century-plus
of zero tolerance for victim-feminism, to contrast with Peterson’s so you can
see why he is so dangerous (and I am not):
I find it hard to believe that you
have actually asked that question. You are well-educated, a successful
journalist, respected by your peers and I’m sure looked upon as an authority
figure by thousands of viewers. Do you seriously need me to explain to you why
freedom of speech has a higher priority than someone’s “right” to not be
offended? Seriously?
Okay, first off, there is no “right”
to not be offended. No establishment of a nation of laws could survive such an
absurd proposition. Taking offense at what someone says is a subjective condition.
It cannot be disproved. To put such a
beast in legal code is a recipe for infinite mischief. A long-standing example
of this is the various “domestic abuse” statutes that allow a woman to
emasculate a man, taking his children, property and income, simply by claiming
to be afraid of him—a subjective condition, that to add insult to injury only
requires the lowest evidentiary standard: preponderance of the “evidence.”
Freedom of speech, on the other hand,
is an absolute imperative for a free society. The cornerstones of a free
society. Giving someone a “right” to not be offended by what someone else says,
and, as you suggest, that this “right” should actually trump the “offender’s”
right to speak, makes me wonder why I am bothering to have this conversation
with you. You are clearly a complete idiot, and in your capacity as a presumably
influential media spokesperson, an outright menace to your country.
But this is Peterson’s rather more
genteel response:
Because in order to be able to think,
you have to risk being offensive! I mean, look at the conversation we’re having
right now. You know, like you’re certainly willing to risk offending me in the
pursuit of truth. Why should you have the right to do that? It’s been rather
uncomfortable!
Newman responds:
Well, I’m very glad I’ve put you on
the spot!
Peterson:
[laughing loudly] But you get
my point! You get my point. Like, you’re... you’re doing what you should do,
which is digging a bit to see what the hell’s going on. And that is what you
should do. But you’re exercising your freedom of speech to certainly risk
offending me! And that’s fine! I think more power to you, as far as I’m
concerned!
Game. Set. Match.
Peterson’s
videos, podcasts and book are phenomenally successful. “12 Rules...” is number one
on Amazon in the U.S. and Canada, and number four in the U.K. The viewings of
his videos are numbered in the millions.
Unquestionably,
a vacuum has been filled. Peterson’s message of outright rejection of the Left’s
identity politics and tyrannical suppression of speech—especially at their
source: the academy—has touched a raw nerve. More importantly, it has struck a
chord in one particular segment of the population: young men.
No
longer in that category, I’ve been watching the ruthless assault on masculinity
and the growing criminalization of dissent for
three decades. During that time, we’ve awaited the anointed one. Who is going
to be able to reach the young men, so many raised fatherless, who have known
nothing but anti-male feminist indoctrination throughout their lives?
Peterson
may be that man. He claims no less than 25,000 young men contacted him after
watching his videos, many claiming that he saved them from the abyss. These men
have been denied an alternative view to that given by feminists who control the
entire discourse on sex and “gender.” It is no wonder that these men are
confused about their identities. It’s truly sad to see these feminized pajama
boys with the last vestiges of masculinity wrung out of them, hanging
on to their manhood by a thread.
Jordan
Peterson is reaching these young men. Without their awakening, there
is no hope for the future of western civilization. History is clear:
matriarchal societies are an evolutionary dead-end. Witness Scandinavia where the
immigration and integration policies of those feminist states are inevitably leading
to the karmic “solution”: Islam, the ultimate patriarchal rejection of feminism.
Peterson’s ability to demolish
feminist catechism with authority and grace is terrifying the cultural left. We
know that this so-called “post-feminist” world, with its deranged
step-child, the LBTGQ movement, is a house of cards built on a foundation of
male-hatred, propaganda and the suppression of free speech. And we know that a
strong dosage of truth serum is required to tear it down. Jordan Peterson is
collecting acolytes by the hundred-thousands—and most of them are in that pivotal
demographic, young men. They are finally waking up.
And that is why Jordan Peterson is
the most dangerous man in the world. And that’s a very good thing.
— Marcus Clintonius
— Marcus Clintonius
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