Thread by @HNIJohnMiller

QUESTION! I have a question!

Why should anyone kowtow to a mob who called them a woman drugging alcoholic gang rapist? What does that do besides giving into an angry mob that could be on your doorstep next? That HAS been on your doorstep since day 1 in @jordanbpeterson’s case?

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1048320826376740865

@jordanbpeterson I mean, should Jordan Peterson stop writing books, step down from teaching, and completely withdraw from his social life and career because an angry mob is calling him a sexist racist homophobic transphobic superbigot?

@jordanbpeterson Seriously, I can’t understand the mindset.

And you know what? I’ll come out and say it.

Jordan Peterson is Canadian. He doesn’t understand the American mindset when set upon by adversity. He stood up and defended himsef because that was the natural reaction. But now?

@jordanbpeterson He doesn’t seem to understand WHY, when the mob comes for someone other than him, why they wouldn’t back down from the mob.

I’ll tell you why.

Because:

@jordanbpeterson This has been a long time coming, actually.

I’ve never been a fan of Jordan Peterson. I understand what he’s saying, I agree with a fair amount of what he’s saying, and he deserves the ability to say everything even the bits I disagree with freely.

@jordanbpeterson But I hate, I repeat, I HAAAAAATE when he starts talking about American political conservatism.

Motherfucker, you may have been catching some flak for a year or three, but you have not earned the RIGHT to start talking about American political conservatism.

@jordanbpeterson I mean, you’re close, what with “Dude where’s my eyebrows” Trudeau and his socialist jackboot goons trying to make you persona non grata.

But you have not swallowed the red pill and been subjected to the oppressive weight that comes with being a conservative in America.

@jordanbpeterson You’ve not watched your financial future crumble to dust in front of you and swallowed the realization that you’ll never be able to afford to take your kids on the yearly vacations you had as a child growing up.

Only to be told by liberals that the economy failing is your fault.

@jordanbpeterson You’ve not had to sit there and be lied to as your healthcare, your retirement funds, and your career is replaced by cheap shitty imitations and be told by some out of his depth fucking moron of a president that this is the new economy and its a jobless recovery.

@jordanbpeterson You’ve not had to wake up and realize that every industry-specific media outlet you might have trusted at one point is a corrupt gaggle of chucklefucks that will turn on you the minute you realize they’ve been lying to you and start accusing you of being a horrid waste of oxygen.

@jordanbpeterson You’ve not had to sit there, note that some golden child leader of the left is a naked fucking emperor/empress with no redeeming qualities or a message you can connect with, only to be told that the message isn’t for you but if you dont like it you should fucking die and not vote

@jordanbpeterson Or, ya know, die and let the Dems vote for you.

@jordanbpeterson This Captain America quote right here is what its all about. But there’s more context to it, you see.

@jordanbpeterson There’s a discussion within the Civil War comics that happens to mirror this conversation. It comes from Iron Man, who leads the group opposing Captain America.

@jordanbpeterson Iron Man says, he had an uncle back in the McCarthy era who was an actor, and he was dragged up in front of McCarthy accused of being a communist, and told to admit his communist roots and turn over other communists.

@jordanbpeterson The uncle said as Captain America would have him say. “Go fuck yourself.”

He was destroyed as a result. The mob destroyed him.

@jordanbpeterson Depressing, right? Yeah, the uncle took his stand, but if he was destroyed by the mob, it was pointless. Iron Man said the pragmatic thing to do would be to join the mob.

@jordanbpeterson See, you gotta extrapolate it from there. Eventually, as all mobs eventually do, it turned on those guiding it.

Just like in the French Revolution, eventually the mob turned on McCarthy and destroyed him to the point that no matter how many Commies he caught, his name is cursed

@jordanbpeterson The answer? The moral?

Stand against the mob. To side with the mob is no protection. The mob can and will turn on you at its whim and destroy you anyways.

@jordanbpeterson Jordan Peterson, by calling for the resignation of Kavanaugh, is joining the mob.

Joining the mob is no protection from the mob, simply a stay of execution.

@jordanbpeterson To join the mob of fear, of ignorance, of hate is no act of bravery or moral superiority.

It is simple self-defense to point the mob away from you, and there is no morality in joining an unjust cause to prevent yourself from becoming a victim of it in the future.

@jordanbpeterson To riff off of an idea from @TheOneJohnWard, in which the logical spin off of evil prospers by good men doing nothing means that men cannot be good if it witnesses evil and remains silent

@jordanbpeterson @TheOneJohnWard To call oneself good when one joins the mob to unjustly condemn another is then, by logical extension, it is impossible to join the mob and remain a good man.

@jordanbpeterson @TheOneJohnWard Good is not the Easy way. Good is not self improvement. Good is not demanding others fold and surrender to the mob.

@jordanbpeterson @TheOneJohnWard Good is the conscious decision to remain apart from the mob, to oppose it. Good is standing with others against the mob.

@jordanbpeterson @TheOneJohnWard In short?

I dont believe Jordan Peterson is a good man.

But that’s fine. The mob says belief is all thats necessary to condemn someone anyways.

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