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Sargon of Akkunt finally just starts yelling the n word at people

Started by Monsieur Verdoux, February 07, 2018, 06:20:08 PM

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Jordan Peterson gets an interview in fucking Time magazine to spout his utter bullshit about 'Frozen' being political propaganda: http://time.com/5176537/jordan-peterson-frozen-movie-disney/

ieXush2i

More postmodernism from the man who hates it

Although the Time reporter calls him on his obvious surface-level bullshi they don't get into why Peterson is such a tool.

His inability to watch it (though he did eventually watch it) because of a weird predisposition reminded me of Richard Dawkins being unable to read sci-fi stories about mind/body swaps because that's not how the brain works - missing the fucking point of the speculative fiction altogether. It honestly seems like an Aspergers thing, no shades of grey.

There's something deeply weird & annoying about adults analyzing or rallying around children's media, be they of  the right or left.

ieXush2i

It seems to have gone semi-viral as a "look how clueless this idiot is" piece, starting with the fact that The Little Mermaid and Frozen are both based on Hans Christian Andersen stories...

d0omd

Ah yes, because Kevin MacDonald's horseshit theories really need serious critical analysis.

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/972730927670378496

QuoteA straightforward explanation for the high proportion of Jewish people among intellectuals (and necessary critique of a competing account) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-018-9310-x/fulltext.html

I know Peterson would say he doesn't support anti-Semites of any stripe. In which case, way to inadvertently throw them a fucking bone! I bet they're overjoyed he's giving this some attention, perhaps even exposing it for the first time to his younger readers.

bgmnts

I must admit I have always been somewhat interested in reading Intellectuals and Race by Thomas Sowell, which I am sure mentions Jewish  dominance in certain fields.

That looks a bit gash, though.

Lemming

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That one is too extreme even for the desolation thread.

pcsjwgm

QuoteYou arrogant, racist son of a bitch Pankaj Mishra: How dare you accuse me of "harmlessly romancing the noble savage." That's how you refer to my friend Charles Joseph (http://charlesjoseph.ca/ ), who I've worked with for 15 years?
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/975941048550572034

QuoteAnd you call me a fascist? You sanctimonious prick. If you were in my room at the moment, I'd slap you happily.
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/975941537619107840

Very strange individual.

It should also be pointed out that the "harmlessly romancing the noble savage." comment was not directed at Peterson's friend, nor is there any way of reading the article that would support that interpretation. Peterson either skimmed the article and made a mistake, or he's just pulling excuses to be angry out of his arse.

Eis Nein



#553
In a worrying development, my dad (who's in his late 50s) has recently taken to binge watching Sargon. I tried persuading him to broaden his outlook by suggesting he give some videos by Shaun a go, but I knew that would die on the ground as soon as I caught sight of him watching videos of Sargon explaining Shaun's criticisms away first, and it was only afterwards that he actually engaged with what I'd recommended. So all my dad took away from this little exercise was that Shaun "cherry picks all the time" and that he's disappointed I'd ever give such a self-serving, irrational and intellectually dishonest individual the time of day. I sometimes wonder if things would have been different if he'd watched them in a different order, but perhaps not.

He's pretty much dismissed hbomberguy out of hand without watching him (I think), and heaven knows what he'd make of ContraPoints, so I feel that I'm out of options. I thought Shaun was the best option. I don't usually worry myself about this kind of thing, except that he's started identifying as a "classical liberal" when once he would have said "socialist" and he's started accusing me of having 'communistic' ideas, even though I've never betrayed any interest in Marxism or Communism to him (and in fact have never identified as either). Obviously the latter concerns me more than the former - he's a big lad and doesn't need me telling him what to identify as - and I wouldn't normally suggest he watch other YouTube channels instead of, say, reading a good book. But, as he does seem to spend a lot of time on YouTube at the moment, I'm quite desperate to offset this development by exposing him to some good counterarguments online, as I'm all too aware of where it ultimately leads to and the kind of channels Sargon, TL;DR, Prison Planet and Black Pilled (another one he's mentioned in passing) are primers for.

Any suggestions?


Lemming

^^ I'm right there with you. My dad (similar age to yours) started binge-watching InfoWars over the past year or so, claiming all the while that it's "just entertainment" even as he parrots their batshit crazy ideas back at me. Muslim rape gangs run amok across Sweden, Trump is a decent man doing his best despite the overwhelming opposition of The Mainstream Media, Black Lives Matter are funded by George Soros, a confirmed Nazi war criminal, anti-fascists are the REAL fascists and there's an army of black bloc lunatics going around beating up all white people or something, etc etc etc. He accused me of being "one of the people who'd ban speakers at universities" during an argument a while back, and that was the moment I knew it was pretty much game over.

I also tried Shaun (namely the Outrage News video, which I thought would do a good job of showing Breitbart's total dishonesty in reporting) but to little avail.

He loves Piers Morgan too, and the only upshot of all this was the hilarity of him claiming that Piers was "more honest than the corrupt mainstream media", as if ITV's breakfast show GMTV/Daybreak/whatever isn't the most fucking mainstream news show going.

Personally I just got fucking sick of it and now I shut down every conversation about politics or society with him before it starts. Sargon is at least a couple steps down from InfoWars, hopefully your dad can still be brought around.

QRDL

I am actually delighted my father is dead and never spoke English anyway.

Bhazor

If its any consolation, the rest of dad's will probably be dead soon. Especially if they actually live by their libertarian principles. Good luck paying for those ACE inhibitors with the Bupa mark up on your non inflation adjusted private pension fucko.

I still say the best thing to do to combat thick conspiranuts is to start a conspiracy theory of our own. My suggestion is that voting booths are a secret ploy to inject people with super autism. Claim the pens have tiny needles in the blunt end, show them pictures of voting booths with red circles drawn on random corners, say the last time you voted you distinctly smelled a faint wisp of lavender.