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Roy Brander's avatar

This is why I pay you, Justin. It's like your job is to go into the nuclear reactor and make the adjustments, so that I can just read the report at my desk the next day.

I'm very, very weary of seeing that man's name all the time, but the National Post does have valuable stories sometimes, so I have to keep looking at that front page.

When Anne Coulter started raging at liberals, I dutifully paid attention, because so many right-wingers were lionizing her (this is about 2004) and I figure you have to not be in a silo. Then she called one candidate a "fag" and excused it as "shouting insults on the playground". I was so relieved. If she was just shouting insults on a playground, then I did not, in fact, have to pay any attention to her.

Coulter is one of five people that were tagged as responsible for 80% of University lecture cancellations - her, Shapiro, Yiannopoulos, Peterson, etc - and its a business model. Justin is just reporting facts he can see, here, correctly - but when you look at Peterson changing from shrink with some opinions, to the millionaire guru he is now, it's clear he spotted the business model and is riding it.

Since Petersen isn't entirely on politics, and since he has prior cred as a shrink and professor, he couldn't be dismissed as easily as Coulter. But, I quite believe Justin about how hapless Peterson is on anything practical about economy, governance, justice - I can continue ignoring him completely. A relief.

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Justin Ling's avatar

I really think we risk worsening our polarization problem by pretending like he's rotten to the core and incapable of an earnest thought.

Broken clocks and whatnot.

Conservatives, e.g., do themselves no favors by pretending that socialism is a dirty concept with no merit. You can't oppose something unless you understand its appeal. That's true for Coulter, too.

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