Vincent J. Curtis
30 July 2018
RE: Jordon Peterson’s intellectual hucksterism
(by Latham Hunter, Ph.D. The Hamilton Spectator of this date. Hunter is described as a professor of cultural studies and communications )
A reply:
Speaking of intellectual hucksterism, what the hell is “cultural studies and
communications” anyway?
On cue, the progressive movement is reacting to a sensible
alternative to its intellectual pretensions - by accusing a dangerous antagonist
of being a racist and misogynist. How tiresome!
By racist is meant,
not a person who “demonstrates prejudice against persons of other races,” but a
person who doesn’t buy into that recently minted concept of racial
privilege. By misogynist is not meant a person who “despises or is
strongly prejudiced against women,” but a man who makes observations about
women, as a clinical psychologist makes observations about his practice.
In short, racist and misogynist mean “a person I disagree
with and wish to smear.”
The Marxist roots of post-modernism is not an invention of
Jordan Peterson. It is admitted by those who espouse it. Its aim is
to demoralize, confuse, and bring low those liberal western democracies with
free-market economies that exposed the fraud of communism and destroyed the
Soviet Union.
“White privilege” and what Latham Hunter calls misogyny and
racism are inventions of post-modernism with that aim in mind, and Peterson is
not wrong in naming them and in attacking them, since he believes in, what was
called in the mid-twentieth century, liberalism.
Hunter’s own
discipline of “cultural-studies” and the continuing invention and proliferation of
fill-in-the-blank-studies courses are products of post-modernism, and came at
the expense of what used to be called liberal-arts programs. (Victor Davis Hanson has said a lot about this.)
Hence, Hunter’s criticism of Peterson amounts to a predatory
assault, in characteristic manner, of post-modernism upon main-line liberal
arts, and its views and conclusions.
Hunter’s critique of Peterson is another sorry example of a
losing progressive losing her mind.
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