I don't think someone should have to be a Fred Rogers just to be safe from vitriol around here. It should be clear that I'm no fan of Peterson, but I haven't seen him calling anyone "human garbage". If he used to do that for decades then he must have reformed. The kind of abuse he gets here from some isn't just carelessly measured. It's wildly far beyond anything I've seen Peterson say to anyone.Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 2:07 amDon’t you believe if DCP were a kind person in word and deed, and truly was a humble servant along the lines of, say, Fred Rogers, that he’d be treated with respect or at the very least the ‘over the top’ rhetoric leveled at him would be minimal if not rare? This kind of thing doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and he’s had 40’ish years of being incredibly rude, demeaning, passive-aggressive, evasive, and just downright smarmy. I’m sorry his critics don’t carefully measure their responses to match his tone, but what he’s done with his life has been to be a ‘Soldier’ who ‘fights in the trenches’ with his equally assholish partisan fighters like Loopy Lou “peckerhead” Midgley and Kiwi “cockholster” 57.
He and his crazier buddies may well see themselves as soldiers in some kind of spiritual war, but I can't buy that as an excuse for behaving much worse than they do. And if these self-styled Mormon paladins are childish enough to do things like smuggle moronic insults in Bible code into supposedly scholarly essays, land sakes, guys: can't you see that you're playing into their hands and enabling their fantasy?
You're not calling them out. You're only setting them up. If it's a tactic designed to egg them on to make fools of themselves to a wider audience, then I think it's flawed by the fact that there's no wide audience watching them anyway. And I suspect they don't really need the egging on, either.
