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[–] 38 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

I think it’s pretty great how there are two prominent public intellectuals with high, croaky voices who look vaguely alike: Jordan Peterson and Noam Finkelstein, and they’re mostly on the opposite of the issues.

The difference is that Finkelstein actually has something valuable to say most of the time whereas Peterson cries about fat women offending him on twitter

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    mostly on the opposite of the issues.

    mostly??? what are you saying about norm??

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Norm is also against "woke politics", although while JP has a repurposed Nazi conspiracy theory to explain why he doesn't like wokeness, Finklestein's problem with it is more that the Democratic Party has embraced it as a kind of religious dogma and pushed out elements of their old base with it, so it's not really the same.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    If people don't like wokeness because it is insufficiently woke I can't find it in myself to dislike that.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    he's pretty transphobic ngl, in one of his books he said

    ::: spoiler transphobia “At its worst, the woke cult of transgenders is a cross between voyeurism and morbidity, a fascination with the sexually bizarre, a politically correct version of snuff pornography. It’s at the “intersectionality” of the lassitudinous culture of the Hamptons and the depraved sexual ennui of Hollywood.”

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