so a long time acquaitance on facebook posted…

so a long time acquaitance on facebook posted on his wall that “i’m super into jordan peterson and the incel movement. they pose deep questions about society”

I had to do multiple double takes.. is he saying they are worth examining to see how they arose and how to correct/eradicate it, or is he saying they are valid?

he oipened the post by a supposed quote to jordan peterson: “why not?” – he claims it’s “so deep”

so instead of reading the infuriating set of 5 links he posted along with it, I just googled “jordan peteron why not”, and didn’t find the source but found this curious article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/putting-monsterpaint-onjordan-peterson/550859/

i’m surprised, because it’s the progressive zine the atlantic
but the writer, who is not a guest columnist – apparently he writes for the atlantic – argues that
1 jordan peterson is misunderstood
2 in this particular interview, he was not trying to insinuate anything problematic
3 we have lost our etiquette of a good debate and by being so aggressive with jordan peterson, the host has lost credibility

at first i was like “huh”

then i read a bit the quoted lines

yeah, not really

the host asked jordan peterson
“is the state of things fine as they are?”
peterson says “no”, followed by “but men do more engineering, and women do more nursing”.
yeah bro that’s not an example on the topic of the question. peterson is steernig the topic to neutralize the attack
the writer is displaying classic behavior of the alt-right playbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xGawJIseNY&list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ

i don’t want to watch the interview, because i think i already know peterson is gonna be slimy to the point of driving me angry, but i’m sure the host (Newman) did a fine job.