Buddy, pal, friendo...
I hope you didn't forget this is Kiwifarms.
I've learned to accept inherently that the attitudes that many have here when confronted with the potential or impending mortality of others, while repugnant, are almost inevitable and not worth being appalled about.
Outside KF, though, I went pale when I read people practically dancing on his man while he's dealing with a crippling addiction to drugs he was prescribed-- first for his anxiety resulting from the reverberating effects of a severe allergic reaction on his psyche, and then for the general burden of his wife's illness. Hardly even any discussion on whether or not he did this to himself-- it's as if they think this is automatically karma for being the ideologue that he was, or that he just didn't follow his own advice (and thus this supposed hypocrisy invalidates it all) or that the situation he finds himself in (a matter of life and death) isn't pitiable enough to at least acknowledge without whinging on and on about that one time he said something about black people that's arguably incorrect.
I always found negative reactions to Peterson rather vicious. Like, particularly vicious. As if said people were waiting for any slip in a long (or at least voluminous) career as an ideologue to triumphantly proclaim it as evidence that he didn't just screw up, but that he was always a screw up. The kind of vitriol that seemed disproportionate (and also un-nuanced) for someone you disagreed with, even if you found them pompous or vacuous.
I've heard of the "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory", to be sure, but the people I speak of were willing to attach their own names to such statements. Has the internet so thoroughly stripped us of compassion that we're incapable of even taking half a moment to appreciate even the
life/death struggles of those who are merely ideological opponents, and has it so thoroughly stripped us of nuance such that we're unable to even
acknowledge them, even when still set on criticizing their persons? Do we even consider ourselves talking about
people, at this rate?
I dunno, I suppose I've seen this in action with entire groups of people (see the 2016 election-- and onwards-- and the denigration of Trump's voterbase by Democrats who decried them as automatic racist sexist homophobes), but it's harrowing to see it happen with a man who's at worst said things and hasn't even had any palpable effect on the legislation that flows from the culture he interacts with. Fair enough, I'm neither a fanboy nor an A-logger of his, and the voluminosity of his content since he entered the kulturkampf
does mean that tracking his views (and thus verifying the grounds of the complaints against him) is quite the task for which I haven't much time... but I don't think he could have changed much since I last dropped off (when he took a shine to viewing the Bible through psychoanalytical archetypes).
