COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
How dangerous is
Jordan B Peterson, the rightwing professor who 'hit a hornets' nest'?
Since his
confrontation with Cathy Newman, the Canadian academic’s book has become a
bestseller. But his arguments are riddled with ‘pseudo-facts’ and conspiracy
theories
I don't know anything about this guy, and I don't care
enough about him to find out.
But when I read, "his arguments are riddled with
‘pseudo-facts’ and conspiracy theories," and I read it in a corporate,
mainline newspaper, I do have to laugh.
Does a day pass that The Guardian's front page does not
contain at least a couple of people promoting "pseudo-theories" or
"pseudo-facts" (rather a goofy construct that last, don't you
think?).
And I don't just mean all that glop about this or that fad
idea concerning sex or race or nutrition, although you sure do use a lot of
that.
But on deadly serious topics, from who is really responsible
for all the horrors of Syria to whitewashing the bloodthirsty regime in Saudi
Arabia.
Please, you cannot attack the views of people you don't like
with accusations about practices you often follow.
The sad truth is we live in a politically chaotic world in
which someone trying to learn about what is really going on has to work very
diligently comparing different sources.
In the Trump era, all the corporate press and the large
internet media have played a very, very unfair game of labeling "false
news" and "fact-checking" about anything or anyone not in step
with the accepted set of views.
It really is tiresome and pointless.
