the alt-right

it's pretty obvious why a politics based on bigotry and blame wouldn't be too interested in self-analysis

this bullshit bias against talk therapy extends outside rightwing worlds, it's really depressing. only logical argument against it is prohibitive cost for some

oh sure they're not the only naysayers and there's all kinds of nuanced arguments to be had about the value of therapy and its structure as in industry but it's clear why the redpill crowd are agin it

yeah there's sometimes a kernel of that (a lot of people in these communities self identify as "NEETs") but it isn't the entire story or even the biggest factor

true

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chuck-johnson-survivor-audition-tape_us_5a952956e4b02cb368c568be

The clash of titans. The great debate of our age.
Who is the real enemy - postmodern neo-marxists, or neo-marxist postmodernists? pic.twitter.com/OTo6SoKIRx

— Rocko's Modern Basilisk 🏴 (@InnerPartisan) February 26, 2018

gotcha! the real enemy is white men

Oh my god. The Orpheum?

"philosophy", I may never stop vomiting

barf

re: "postmodern neo-marxists", I consider this the final word on that

hi i'm a postmodern marxist. that means i believe in the deconstruction of the master narrative and the proliferation of perspectives, but also, somehow, simultaneously, believe only in marxism.

— your friend john (@johnsemley3000) January 25, 2018

Your friend John is otm. And anyone who has a problem with that position should read Sloterdijks Critique of Cynical Reason.

whinging about postmodernism is like whinging about oxygen tbh

Again, otm. Fuck the metamodernists, though...

cute story from the Bay Area

Ten times in the last six month, Revolution Books, the far left bookstore in the Telegraph Channing Mall, has found itself under attack from far-right activists.

The latest skirmish was Sat. March 4, the one-year anniversary of the pro-Trump rally in Martin Luther King Jr. Park that saw people on the right and Antifa and BAMN activists duking it out for control. A group of people who called themselves “Berkeley Warriors” on a live Facebook feed came from Sacramento and stormed the store.

“Fucking Commie scum,” one demonstrator, Rob Cantrall, said on a video taken by bookstore staff while Reiko Redmonde, a volunteer manager at the store, tried to prevent him and others from entering. “You are commie scum. We are going to burn down your bookstore. You know that, right?”

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/03/07/right-wing-activists-target-berkeleys-revolution-books

This headline from the LA Review of Books is so great I'm almost afraid to read the piece for fear of almost certainly being let down.

A Messiah-cum-Surrogate-Dad for Gormless Dimwits: On Jordan B. Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life”

Real life feels like The Screwfly Solution. Mass delusion and violent hysteria

“The intellectual heirs to the obnoxious right-wing shock-jocks of yesteryear” is a good line from that LARB piece

How are teenage boys even hearing about Jordan Peterson in the first place? Does he show up as a suggestion in a youtube Overwatch playlist or something? Twitch advertising? It's terrifying that young men are apparently such fertile ground for that kind of shit right now.

It has to be mostly Youtube. All kinds of stuff on Youtube leads towards Jordan Peterson. Pew Die Pie was holding up a copy of his book last month.

At least in Canada, he has been getting a ridiculous amount of mainstream media coverage for years at this point. The National Post opinion pages were practically functioning as his cheerleading squad for a while. P sure it would be easier than it was for teenage boys to hear about Chomsky in the 90s. xp

last night I was in a coffee shop and the girl next to me was watching many Jordan Peterson videos. I was confused

Adverts for his book are all over the fucking London Underground

last night I was in a coffee shop and the girl next to me was watching many Jordan Peterson videos. I was confused

Prepping for a blind date?

The apparently authentic enthusiasm for JP among young people--as well as its magnitude and reach--might be the most distressing thing for me since Trump was elected. If the kids aren't alright, I'm running out of things to feel optimistic about

My preferred response when encountering such: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ab9df7b8-db3b-4772-982f-bdf8e9e5c90e

gonna hope coffee shop girl was watching jp vids as part of a 'know your enemy' manouevre

quick survey of the youth in my experience is that v v few are paying attention to JP but every one of them will start a band

i just pray every day that none of my students tries to drop some jp ~noledge~ on me

jp's stupid fucking voice has ruined 'the rainbow connection' forevermore and for that along he should be dropped down a well

er, that alone

Adverts for his book are all over the fucking London Underground

Wait, that's truly the same guy?? I just thought it was some self-help guru with the same name! The quotes they excerpt are more feel good facebook meme than alt right screed.

xxp don't let him ruin kermit (a prince)

gonna hope coffee shop girl was watching jp vids as part of a 'know your enemy' manouevre

the title of the video I saw was something like "Why Men Are Going Their Own Way" (it wasn't worded that way but it definitely had the same sentiment) so I sure hope so

oh good that's just a fleetwood mac cover and lyric video, JP sitting in his bedroom studio behind a pop shield crying about someone he met on match.com that called him a dildo while he was eating noodles

dildos are more useful than jordan peterson

The quotes they excerpt are more feel good facebook meme than alt right screed.

I think combining these different sides is part of the reason for his popularity. He has credibility for many young men as a source of life advice because they see him as being on the right side of the culture war against feminists and trans people.

Meanwhile, some who are leery of the alt-right see at least something compelling in what he says about psychology, mythology, archetypes, etc., and so they go to bat for him in trying to disentangle it all.

otm esp on that second point

dildos are more useful than jordan peterson

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, March 12, 2018 12:13 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

facts

xxp so he's like rupi kaur

rupi kaur for edgelord shitposters

this kind of ties back into the whole anti-psychiatry and anti-medication element of it: therapists may be bad, but jordan peterson isn't

yikes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html

this sorta seems relevant

White does mention a fondness for the controversial author and YouTube philosopher Jordan Peterson, though he's apparently only seen him talking about religion. "He's got more intelligence in his brain than his body can handle," he says. Later, I mention the anti-feminist, anti-political-correctness screeds for which Peterson is also known. "I didn't know about that," White says. "Maybe we should drop that whole thing now!"

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/jack-white-cover-story-new-album-white-stripes-w517705

rmde

thats the funniest shit ive seen in a minute

jesus goddamn christ

tomato, tomato, potato, fascism, let's call the whole thing off

Here’s something:

https://m.mic.com/articles/188397/richard-spencer-suspending-the-rest-of-his-college-tour-because-antifa-is-winning#.PGriurKlx

He been r-u-n-n-o-f-t!