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OK, I haven’t read the rest of the article, which I will now do, but I REALLY like the way this is starting.

If you’re a FReeper, and don’t know about JBP, you need to fix that.

Some good starting points. Worth the time.

Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism - The Cathy Newman interview.
https://youtu.be/aMcjxSThD54

Jordan Peterson | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZMIbo_DxJk

Jordan Peterson, Eric Weinstein, and Dave Rubin
https://youtu.be/Li2J4GxZ6iM

Jordan Peterson is worth reading and listening to, but the article wanders off into the usual anti-Trump bathos - claiming the alt-right [whatever that is] is just as into identity politics [white fascist nazi politics one presumes] as is the left. And Peterson should be read as an antidote to the [rascist identity politics of the White House - which - or is it whom - all right-thinking Republicans [GOPee and Ryan and other RINOs, anyone] despise just as much as the left.

Thus, the author might have been onto something, but is just as inclined to the intellectual laziness as are all the other folks who slide into this intellectual slop.

She acknowledges that even Obama recognized that identity politics had reached the end of the road and there was no place to go once they decided that whites had nothing to say and should be forbidden from saying it. That is a good starting point for a real inquiry into what has transpired, how Trump arose - not presuming that it is a rascist backlash of marginalized smelly idiot deplorables - but that there is solid and sound reasoning behind it.

But all of that is just too much for Ms Caitlin who simply struggles with getting her head around the fact that her son listens to those from the intellectual dark web and reaching the conclusion that Peterson is arguably ok since he doesn’t endorse Trump and can be interpreted as calling him to account.

Now of course I am to some extent misreading Caitlin, but she is so all over the board, that any reading of her is going to misread her.