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[–] BruceDoh 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Jordan Peterson is one of the dumbest "smart" guys I've ever encountered. How can he even type up something like this without realizing how illogical and absurd it is?

He basically just used "word tricks" to classify all civilization as fundamentally fascist. Which is obviously an incredibly stupid position. I could use the same argument to claim that anything involving cooperation is fascist. Just mind-numbingly, infuriatingly stupid.

Anyone who takes this guy seriously is a knob.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Right? His "analysis" is so shallow a child could poke holes through it.

He says:

"Fascist" is from the Latin term "fasces" which means "bind together". Corporate, government and media collusion is fascist, by definition

What he's trying to do here is water down the meaning of the word. He's alluding that everything dealing with "togetherness" is fascist. Families? Business contracts? Weddings? Yup, all of these could fall under his re-imagined dictionary definition of fascist.

Be aware this is a tactic fascists like to use (and have used throughout history) to water down the meaning of words so they lose effectiveness. The thought process goes that if everything is fascist, the word loses meaning so then nothing can be fascist. Dumb argument but it can work sometimes, so we must be vigilant in continuously mocking this tactic and those who use it.

[–] BruceDoh 1 points 1 year ago

Please join us in our protest against LePage 8x PL fast grab premium construction adhesive, and leave your fascism at home. Unless you were planning on taking the filling out of a whole pile of Oreos and fascisming them into one super Oreo, because that's the fascism I adore!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Israeli here, it's not exactly true. I mean jorden or yarden (ירדן) does include the term yarad(י,ר, ד) but as you can see you say yarad and not yard. Also there's no actual definition to yarden. In the Bible yarden (jorden) was (and it still exists in Israel today) one of the two rivers that mark eden, the other one is achidekel.

Edit: of course it is not related to what he was trying to say, it's just an anecdote and I think his incentive is true

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Aw 🥹, one lonely little fascist gave their cowardly silent downvote here and ran away. 🤣🖕🏼

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