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Varlam Shalamov versus Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | The Charnel-House
▻https://thecharnelhouse.org/2019/06/06/varlam-shalamov-versus-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn

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Few authors are so commonly cited in anticommunist literature as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Since the appearance of The Gulag Archipelago in the early seventies, it has been invoked at every turn by everyone from the “new philosophers” of France to the Canadian self-help guru Jordan Peterson. No doubt Solzhenitsyn is a great author, from a purely literary standpoint. His reactionary politics are quite separate from this consideration, but ought to have been of much more concern to Jewish ex-Maoists like Bernard-Henri Lévy and Alain Finkielkraut (who are constantly on the lookout for left antisemitism, yet seem to ignore Solzhenitsyn’s numerous antisemitic statements).

#urss #ex-urss #littérature

Debunking Jordan Peterson’s “Cultural Marxism” with Richard Wolff
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Jordan Peterson, a staunch defender of the status quo, is known for propagating the fear of “Cultural Marxism.” After a disappointing debate on Marxism with Slavoj Žižek, Abby Martin talks to...

What the Left Gets Wrong About Jordan Peterson
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/what-the-left-gets-wrong-about-jordan-peterson

Perhaps you’ve heard of Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist, self-help guru, and social media star who is also, if some media accounts are to be believed, a dangerous 

David Pakman: The Problem with Jordan Peterson
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David Pakman’s long-form analysis of Jordan Peterson, and more specifically the movement that has been created around him, including its ideology, shortcomings, and more.

Part 2: Interview...

Why Dr. Gabor Maté Disagrees with Dr. Jordan Peterson on His Teachings about Responsibility
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/why-dr-gabor-mate-disagrees-with-dr-jordan-peterson-on-his-teachings

Both the individual component of responsibility and the social component of responsibility needs to be taken into account, and Peterson only focuses on one half of this equation, Gabor...

Richard Wolff takes on Jordan B. Peterson
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/richard-wolff-takes-on-jordan-b-peterson

Prof. Wolff responds to Jordan Peterson’s assertions about Marxism.

Have You Made Up Your Mind about Jordan Peterson? Why Russell Brand Can Help
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In this episode, Alter Ego uses Jordan Peterson’s recent conversations with Russell Brand to reveal his major strengths and weaknesses, and how we can build on the gaps in his thinking to develop...

The Left Is the New Right, the Right Is the Old Right
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-left-is-the-new-right-the-right-is-the-old-right

I didn’t pay much attention to Jordan Peterson when I first heard about him. The standard line on Peterson among liberals and leftists was that he is yet another right-wing hero of young, white...

Why Do People Find Jordan Peterson so Convincing? Because the Left Doesn’t Have Its Own House in Order
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The wide popularity of Jordan Peterson, a once-obscure Canadian clinical psychologist and university professor who has become beloved of the alt-right, is a proof that the liberal-conservative...

Jordan Peterson Gets Played
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/jordan-peterson-gets-played

About half a decade ago, Jordan Peterson was a psychology professor at the University of Toronto and clinical psychologist with little international fame and even less infamy. A talented teacher...

Is Postmodernism Destroying Western Civilization? On Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life
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A specter is haunting North America — the specter of postmodernism. Or at least, that’s what Jordan Peterson would have you believe.

Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of...

Jordan Peterson on Why ’No Platforming’ Activists May Want to Rethink Their Strategy
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Jordan Peterson offers incredibly important advice on the appropriate way to respond to tense situations with disruptive protestors - advice that was quite literally lost in the noise of the...

Refuting Jordan Peterson’s Capitalist Realism
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/refuting-jordan-petersons-capitalist-realism

This Zero Books video does take a look at Mark Fisher’s book Capitalist Realism, but is mostly a response to Jordan Peterson’s lecture on Political Correctness for The Speakers Action...

The Queen’s University Talk: Jordan Peterson on The Rising Tide of Compelled Speech
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Jordan Peterson: "I was invited to Queen’s University March 5 to give the inaugural lecture/discussion of the Liberty Lecture series, funded by Faculty of Law alumnus, Gregory Piasetzki (LLB...

Are We Living in a Patriarchy ? (Jordan Peterson vs. Angela Nagle)
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/are-we-living-in-a-patriarchy-jordan-peterson-vs-angela-nagle

This video will ask the question “Do we live in a patriarchy?” In order to answer the question we examine the ideas of three different cultural critics: Angela Nagle, Jordan Peterson, and Nina...

Jordan Peterson on Political Polarization & Pepe the Frog
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/jordan-peterson-on-political-polarization-and-pepe-the-frog

Jordan Peterson sits down with the CBC’s Wendy Mesley to talk about political polarization, Pepe the Frog and his support from the far right. He has a new book called 12 Rules for Life: an...

How To Get Respect Without Being A Bully - Jordan Peterson
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-to-get-respect-without-being-a-bully-jordan-peterson

Jordan Peterson recently expertly handled a debate during an interview with BBC’s Channel 4 news (The video was called: Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and...

The Personality of Political Correctness
▻https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-personality-of-political-correctness

In a recent study, Christine Brophy and Jordan Peterson conducted a very illuminating analysis of the personality of political correctness. They created a very comprehensive 192-item PC scale measuring PC-related language, beliefs, and emotions based on their reading of news articles, books, and research papers on political correctness. Their PC battery employed a variety of question types, and tapped into the beliefs, language, and emotional sensitivity of politically correct individuals. The list was reviewed and added to by faculty and graduate students, and 332 participants completed the new PC scale, along with questionnaires on personality, IQ, and disgust sensitivity.
What did they find?

The 2 Shades of Political Correctness
The researchers found that PC exists, can be reliably measured, and has two major dimensions. They labeled the first dimension “PC-Egalitarianism” and the second dimension “PC-Authoritarianism”. 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.

Nevertheless, while both dimensions of political correctness involve offense sensitivity, they found some critical differences. PC-Egalitarians tended to attribute a cultural basis for group differences, believed that differences in group power springs from societal injustices, and tended to support policies to prop up historically disadvantages groups. Therefore, the emotional response of this group to discriminating language appears to stem from an underlying motivation to achieve diversity through increased equality, and any deviation from equality is assumed to be caused by culture. Their beliefs lead to advocating for a more democratic governance.

In contrast, PC-Authoritarians tended to attribute a biological basis for group differences, supported censorship of material that offends, and supported policies of harsher punitive justice for transgressors. Therefore, this dimension of PC seems to reflect more of an indiscriminate or general sensitivity to offense, and seems to stem from an underlying motivation to achieve security and stability for those in distress. Their beliefs lead to advocating for a more autocratic governance to achieve uniformity.

#politiquement_correct