Mild Rover wrote:
Aye, if it doesn’t ring true for you, I’m sure it reads as pompous and dull. It’s the same with me when people get excited about something written or said by Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens or Jordan Peterson (among many others); I can never really see it.
You and I, we see the world differently. However, you do sometimes write things I find interesting, even though I rarely agree, and it is nicer if we all try to rub along, innit? In fairness to Cummings, he has (or at least espouses) some interesting ideas too - I’m often a bit nervous of where his line of thought is leading, but I even agree with him on a fair proportion of it.
Speaking of Jordan Peterson, what does a left winger think of the infamous Cathy Newman interview?
For me his solid facts and highly researched argument amid the barrage of whataboutery, straw man diversion and ridiculous 'so you're saying' accusations wiped the floor with her. With her repeated tactic of restating his words to appear offensive or absurd she was literally left floundering, highly embarrassed yet somehow many on the left see her as a victim or even some sort of heroine. Not that the online abuse she received is justified at all.
I always find it interesting that the left label Peterson as a poster boy of the alt right, for simply refusing to back down to those with a far left liberal agenda who insist on controlling thought and speech, for which he became famous in the first place, all in the face of torrents of hatred and abuse. In short, he's highly intelligent and well spoken while most of those that try to oppose him aren't, but he is anything but alt right.
