Vincent J. Curtis
31 July 2018
RE: Taking the kids out (written by Paul Bennedetti, published in the Hamilton Spectator on 28 July 2018. Bennedetti attended Jordan Peterson's lecture in Hamilton with his children. He reported that Peterson seemed perfectly normal and reasonable, and so were the other members of the audience. Progressives denounce Peterson as a fascist/sexist/misogynist/transphobe/Islamophobe deplorable to discredit what sounds perfectly sensible and reasonable coming from his mouth.)
Paul Bennedetti performed a highly useful service by
providing us with his impressions of the Jordan Peterson lecture given in
Hamilton the other week. He reports that Peterson is common sensical and
not at all like the alt-right fascist monster he had been made out to be by
many public figures. Nor does he attract such people.
The next step in the analysis is to compare one’s actual
impressions with those he was told he would experience by those public
figures. Bennedetti commented on the wide discrepancy between the actual
and the advertised.
Now, what does that discrepancy tell you about the judgement
of those who were so wide of the mark? Ought their judgement be trusted
in other matters? (Supposing they said the police department was
racist?) Did they pass judgement on Peterson without hearing him
out? What agenda have they exposed in condemning Peterson’s common sense
conclusions and presentation as the product of fascist thinking? Did you
notice the technique of condemning the man rather than his argument?
The public figures who condemned Peterson as a fascist are
in office and are running for office. They are the ones who get to vote
on city council, and in provincial and federal parliament. Given what we
just learned about their agenda and their judgment, should they be allowed to
touch the levers of power again?
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