{"id":1446,"date":"2021-01-05T04:12:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T09:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unbelievable\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2021-01-05T04:12:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T09:12:22","slug":"we-need-jordan-peterson-more-than-ever-in-cancel-culture-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unbelievable\/2021\/01\/we-need-jordan-peterson-more-than-ever-in-cancel-culture-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"We need Jordan Peterson more than ever in cancel culture 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"After a significant health scare, Jordan Peterson is back in 2021 with the announcement of a new book, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life,<\/em> to be released this March. This disclosure has been greeted with both hallelujahs and harangues and reinvigorated attempts by both camps to either consecrate or cancel him. Why does Jordan Peterson engender so much controversy and what can his upcoming book offer a divided world in 2021?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think the primary reason Peterson is disliked is because he isn\u2019t afraid to criticize the wardrobe of the naked emperors who rule over our political, philosophical and religious kingdoms. His fashion critiques sting because, as a psychologist, he understands the pathology behind delusions of grandeur and is not afraid to make a diagnosis and offer a therapeutic regimen.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the cure he most frequently offers is virtue. I suspect that if he had written his books in the 1950s he wouldn\u2019t have made much of a splash, but in our current postmodern day-and-age his thoughts have become profound cultural correctives. Peterson has made common sense sexy\u00a0once again but has met resistance from a woke world that finds it surprisingly pornographic.<\/p>\n

A cancel culture unable to convince the populace that Peterson\u2019s message is defective is forced to try and take out the messenger. Powerless to refute his persuasive prose, they accuse him of wielding a poison pen.<\/p>\n

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Peterson\u2019s publisher, Penguin Random House Canada, has even encountered opposition within its own ranks.<\/a> One employee stated:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s an icon of hate speech and transphobia and the fact that he\u2019s an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his book, I\u2019m not proud to work for a company that published him.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It appears that what Peterson writes is irrelevant to the fact that he somehow stirs up hatred. What was homophobic, transphobic or misogynistic about his twelve rules? It is a stunningly unfair accusation directed at a man who has dedicated his life to healing those who are broken.<\/p>\n

Another employee blamed him for \u2018radicalizing\u2019 young people:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the one who\u2019s responsible for radicalizing and causing this surge of alt-right groups, especially on university campuses.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only reason Peterson is considered far right is because the culture has gone so far left that even the middle of the road is barely perceptible on the horizon. If you are afraid of allowing alternative voices on campus then perhaps you no longer attend a university but are actually an inmate in a reeducation camp. It\u2019s interesting that academia considers Peterson an agitator when the true radicalizers are the universities that force faculty and students to adopt the party line or face retribution.<\/p>\n