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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jordan Peterson[/quote]

Yes, he’s an important thinker for incels [/quote]

If you really think this, I am fairly certain that you have not heard more than a 20-second clip of his thoughts.
A very small part of his focus at one time was in helping lost young men find meaning in their lives and in trying to figure out why so many were feeling so lost and as if their lives were lacking in direction or meaning as compared to former generations. And he has helped many young men turn their lives around by guiding them on a path toward responsibility, accountability, and purpose.

But he covers so many more topics in his clinical research and body of work. He’s a highly educated, widely published, bright scholar in his field (and this was the case long before he started trending about five years ago in YouTube for challenging Canadian law that was seeking to compel speech. (He was honestly questioning why any law should be made that was requiring someone to say a certain thing rather than just choose to not say the thing or not address it at all. In that particular case, it happened to be a law requiring someone to address someone by their preferred pronouns, with criminal penalties attached if one declined to do this. And his point was “I’m happy to do this to be polite in society, but the idea that anyone is required to address anyone in ANY particular way under threat of violation of the law is unprecedented and tyrannical. Why would we want government to make such a law?” Suddenly, from that, he was branded as anti-trans and anti-liberal. 
And this made him re-think a lot of the ideas help by so-called liberals who, it turns out, are maybe not so liberal anymore.
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Np, while I don't agree/follow everything he says, I enjoyed his Bible lectures. They were very insightful. [/quote]

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