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I don't want my master's degree to become a joke
I have a PhD and I assume that most people don't give a sh*t.
In general, you shouldn't be proud of the piece of paper, but rather the work you did to earn it.
I don't want my master's degree to become a joke
He's not against gender-neutral pronouns.
He's against forcing people to use them, which now the law in Canada, and yes, you could go to jail for using the wrong pronoun. Same in California, and this legal cancer seems to be spreading.
And if you think it's just using them, or he for she, think again, he's the list of the pronouns that you're now forced to use in Canada:
http://uwm.edu/lgbtrc/support/gender-pronouns/
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You'd better start studying them.
I'm not making any of this up.
And Jordan Peterson recognizes that there is a very small minority of people who have ambiguous gender, he has never said otherwise.
You seem to have a very superficial understanding of this issue. I don't think you've really watched any of his lectures otherwise you would never write what you've written above. And you'd never mispel his name too .
But as I've said, the normal reaction to have to Jordan Peterson's ideas from a distance is: "he's a smug pseudo-intellectual who thinks he can tell people how to live their lives, I prefer to think for myself unlike all the people who fall for his ideas!"
Something like that. It makes people feel better and superior, I know how it works, you dismiss something off the bat thinking that you're above it all. Great, you've won, Peterson is an idiot, people who follow him are idiots, and you're not. Here's a cookie.
I think we are desperately in need of an intellectual movement that addresses the problems of economic inequality and environmental destruction, without giving space to blatant insanity like demanding people learn a double-digit number of pronouns to indulge the fantasy world of college kids, or advocating denial of the problems that come with immigration from under-developed countries.
The first two issues are extremely important and why I self-identify as a leftist. I actually think the strongest argument against immigration from muslim countries comes from the left; immigrants from these countries have a low employment rate, make more use of social services and welfare programs, and when they are employed it's usually in low-skill sectors and public sector jobs. This means that the lower classes are hurt disproportionately since they face stiffer competition for the same resources.
Obviously, the failure of leftist politicians, academics and public persons to address these issues properly has lead a number of people to seek answers with deeply reactionary thinkers. In the process it has turned these people into climate-deniers, race realists and worse.
The answer you will get is: informal harems and out-of-wedlock kids with Chad.
Above, you're describing the left in the traditional sense, the voice of the working class. This is not what the left is anymore, they've abandoned the working class to play identity politics, which is partly why their base has given them the middle finger and voted for Trump.
Who says climate change is man-made?
Who says it's as bad as scientists make it out to be?
Who says there is something we can do about it?
And if there's something we can do, what the hell is it?
Fight me!
So I guess I'm on the right end of the political spectrum regarding that aspect: I think the people who say they care about climate change or about "saving the planet" are just after positions of power.
Just like the vast majority of the social justice warriors who pretend to be on the side of the oppressed. Because they're not willing to work hard to make it in society.
They create imaginary problems so they can embody an imaginary identity and pretend that they're doing something positive for society. Without actually doing anything. When I see a whole environmental department in the EU institutions in which millions get poured and where are the results?
Oh there they are:
https://www.neweurope.eu/article/eu-finally-grants-last-minute-five-year-license-glyphosate/
It's all a charade and this is why I cannot be a proper leftist these days. The working class needs a voice and they need to stop with this environmental nonsense. Who says the planet is dying? Where is the actual evidence besides "oh you'll see in 20 years!" Please, this needs to stop, that's what they said 20 years ago, that Belgium would be half-under water by now or something.
Identity politics and environmentalism, they can play those games forever and they'll never be held accountable, that's the beauty of it.
I think right-wingers have a valid point when they say climate change is a made-up issue.
Yeah I guess you're right to some extent.
I just can't see it as an important problem right now, even if it's real.
This goes at the bottom of the pile for me.
Yeah I guess you're right to some extent.
I just can't see it as an important problem right now, even if it's real.
This goes at the bottom of the pile for me.
A lot of what he says feels like pseudo-erudite word salad to me. I think his fans are responding to his insistent, shamanic tone of voice and vague anti-left, anti-SJW sentiment more than anything. He communicates in an almost mystical manner. Like he's a soothsayer for Minecraft-playing Pepes and internet atheists.
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The world can't re-allocate a couple million Syria refugees without major upheavals.
Imagine if 200 million Bangladeshis lose their home.
For those on the fence (Fred is just trolling at this point so I'll leave that discussion aside), I recommend you take a look at potholer54's videos. He has a good understanding of the science and a non-alarmist way of approaching the issue. A lot of the people deep into the weeds on this topic seem to be really depressed and distraught about the state of things, which I can understand but I don't think is a productive attitude to have. We should be doing all we can do and adapt to the changes resulting from the residual effects.
The world can't re-allocate a couple million Syria refugees without major upheavals.
Imagine if 200 million Bangladeshis lose their home.
Try suggesting some solutions that don't involve increasing the price of energy or taxation to pay for your efforts. If you can't do it with free markets, it's because quite frankly people care enough about it to raise their voice and virtue signal, but not vote for change with their dollars. It isn't a serious issue.
Incorrect.Temperatures have been hugely higher over the past 2000 years,
The free market argument is itself fallacious as the underlying carbon-based economy is not a free market. The history of war in the 20th century demonstrates that. The first world war is partly attributed to the Berlin-Baghdad railway, and in recent decades we've seen a lot of wars in Iraq, Libya, etc which are not a coincidence. The global financial markets rely on the US dollar as a reserve currency, which is itself backed by petroleum. The history of US economic development in the second half of the twentieth century is largely one of subsidies for suburban housing construction and highways, which are partly subsidies for the petroleum industry themselves.
It is ridiculous to bring up the free market religion as a supporting position here since there is no, and never has been, a free market supporting petroleum. Nor will there be a free market when the sh*t hits the fan and we're dealing with hundreds of millions of refugees, nor should there be for that matter.