{"id":1536579,"date":"2022-07-02T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1536579"},"modified":"2022-07-02T12:34:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T16:34:12","slug":"david-marcus-radical-truth-is-why-jordan-peterson-wont-back-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-marcus-radical-truth-is-why-jordan-peterson-wont-back-down\/","title":{"rendered":"DAVID MARCUS: Radical Truth Is Why Jordan Peterson Won\u2019t Back Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdavid-marcus-radical-truth-is-why-jordan-peterson-wont-back-down%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1536579&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p dir=\"ltr\">Perhaps the only thing that is easy to understand in James Joyce\u2019s experimental novel \u201cFinnegan\u2019s Wake\u201d is that the final line ends abruptly in the middle of the sentence which is finished in the book\u2019s opening line, thereby creating a loop, or as he puts it, a \u201cvicus of recirculation.\u201d So has it been with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/watch\/jordan-peterson\">Jordan Peterson<\/a>. As a major public intellectual, he has rhetorically journeyed far and wide, but ever since his rise to prominence it always comes back to just one thing: The good doctor will not be forced to use your pronouns.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Peterson is currently locked out of his Twitter account as a result of a tweet in which he said that pride has traditionally been a sin (rather than something to celebrate with flags and months), and that actor Ellen (now Elliot) Page had had her breasts removed by a \u201ccriminal physician.\u201d Twitter says he can delete the tweet and escape this form of cyber purgatory, but in a fiery YouTube video this week he said, \u201cI would rather die than do that. And hopefully it will not come to that, although who the hell knows in these increasingly strange days?\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So why is this the hill that Peterson says he will quite literally die on if need be? To understand that we have to understand the nature of his broader program, the message that he has brought to millions, especially young men frustrated with the modern world. Central to all of it, arguably more than anything else, is honesty. Take this section from his latest book, \u201cBeyond Order\u201d in which he discusses the Bible\u2019s Genesis story:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe tool \u2013 the word God uses to transform the depths of potential \u2013 is truthful speech. It appears necessarily aided, however, with the courage to confront unrealized possibility in all its awful potential, so that reality itself may be brought forth,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This core position is why Peterson will not compromise on the trans issue or ever delete his offending tweet. Others, even those who believe gender hews to biological sex, or who are conservatives, will compromise and use preferred pronouns in public references. But for Peterson this cannot go far enough, because it involves knowingly making \u201cuntruthful statements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Likewise, regarding the Twitter ban, there are many (myself included) who have sprung themselves from Twitter jail by just deleting the Tweet, the logic here being that Twitter is so clearly and grossly acting in bad faith, choosing only to punish one side, that any admission of guilt to it is meaningless outside of bizarre legalese. But for Peterson to take this road of least resistance would undermine his entire oeuvre, if it is so that every philosophy requires an Archimedean point to rest upon, the truth is his.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/gender-determines-birth-say-growing-number-americans-poll-1720495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/gender-determines-birth-say-growing-number-americans-poll-1720495&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1656863329449000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3ad6v9mSQT0Pp9sqQcXT9M\">Pew Research poll <\/a>shows that since 2017 (just after Peterson\u2019s star began to rise) the number of Americans who believe gender should be defined by sex at birth has grown from 54 percent to 60 percent. This is somewhat amazing given that every major institution in the West from colleges, to medical boards, to corporate brands has spent that entire time insisting on gender as a choice. But it\u2019s complicated, because 8 in 10 of those polled also said that trans people face discrimination and a majority favor laws to stop that alleged bias.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This reflects a general desire by those polled to be nice. Peterson is not particularly concerned with being nice, at least not in this sense. He rejects that idea that placating delusions is actually nice at all. Peterson prefers the idea of love to that of niceness, and once again this brings us squarely back to the truth, without which love is scarcely possible.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And when it comes to arbitrary rules imposed by Twitter he is entirely correct in his question on YouTube, \u201cWhat rules, you sons of bitches? Exactly? Precisely? Because such things matter when the accusations start flying.\u201d Obviously there are no rules, murderous dictators all around the world have active Twitter accounts, but former President Donald Trump can\u2019t have one. Gender critical activists who believe in biological sex, most of them women, are regluarly threatened and targeted on the platform with no repporecussions.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This commitment to radical truth often puts Peterson in the crosshairs, as recently happened when he criticized a plus sized swimsuit model appearing on a magazine cover, saying she was not \u201cthe ideal of athletic beauty.\u201d The language matters here, he is invoking Plato\u2019s concept of ideal forms, the unseeable, perfect example of an object that defines it. He is not saying that she is NOT beautiful, that is subjective, he is saying that our society does and should have ideal forms to aspire to.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The obvious question that was asked by many was why say anything at all, or put another way, \u201cif you don\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the only thing that is easy to understand in James Joyce\u2019s experimental novel \u201cFinnegan\u2019s Wake\u201d is that the final line ends abruptly in the middle of the sentence which is finished in the book\u2019s opening line, thereby creating a loop, or as he puts it, a \u201cvicus of recirculation.\u201d So has it been with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":1533207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}