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>>19488652
>Zizek is hot though

>>12290449
He's precisely the kind of American bourgeois liberal that doesn't see the forest for the trees.

The Mid-West of the U.S isn't more fanatical than the rest of the country when it comes to the 3 topics he mentioned; in fact I would argue that the common metropolitan liberal progressive is far more likely to completely lose their shit over politics as evidenced by the last 2 years of a Trump Administration.

The reality is that that entire monologue is a classist rant, designed to make people believe that they are superior by living in the city enjoying their mocca lattes and vegan substitutes.

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>>11353859
>it's not postmodern neomarxism, Pete. It's managerial liberalism

Actually, it's paternalistic illiberalism.

Like I said here>>11352531

The current academic "left-wing" that Peterson rails against is about as left-wing as Elon Musk, and the reality is that these people are reactionaries who have completely denied all the gains of the Enlightenment in favor of political correctness, racial and gender warfare.

These people criticize liberalism for being universalist when, according to them, there's no such thing as universalism, even as an aspiration, instead you get ideas like the progressive stack, and other Hobbesian nightmares.

Do you know who else criticized the ideals of the Enlightenment in precisely the same way as academic postmodernists? Joseph De Maistre. He was the most fervent critic of the Enlightenment, and he also said that there was no humanity, there could never be any humanism, because humanity didn't exist, the only thing that existed was Americans, Brits, Germans, Italians and Chinese etc. And of course the corollary to that is that nothing exists except race, ethnicity and gender. They aren't "human" because humanity itself is a false ideal.

These people, the academic postmodernists, are so reactionary that they share more with the supposed Nazis they hate and deplatform.

Mason & Dixon is better. Fite me fgts

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