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by cmahler7 3239 days ago
Fighting WrongThink is double plus good comrade!

In unrelated news Jordan Peterson, a University of Toronto professor with 350k subscribers was banned today. He's about as centrist as you can get but occasionally speaks against marxism and postmoderism. Apparently not being communist is now terrorism according to youtube.
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tehwebguy 3239 days ago
And reinstated within a day. That's how reporting content works at scale - it takes a minute to get it right.
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tnone 3239 days ago
Reinstated mysteriously after he explicitly appealed, and got a reply he did not qualify for reactivation because of unspecified policy violations.

Let's not pretend this system is doing what it says on the tin. He was reinstated because they realized how it looked and because he has the clout to make a fuss. The next potential Jordan Peterson will be snuffed out before that can happen.

Which is exactly how these Trust and Safety councils like it. Soft power with plausible deniability, like the two faced authoritarians they are. It's always set up as a one way ratchet, they can never allow this stuff to be rolled back in any form. Disagreement is harassment, after all, and harassers are guilty until proven super guilty.

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tehwebguy 3239 days ago
True, for better or for worse Google does this with basically everything.

They still haven't apologized or corrected their major mistake nearly destroying Fark.com last December.

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zimpenfish 3239 days ago
> He's about as centrist as you can get but occasionally speaks against marxism and postmoderism.

He also occasionally says transphobic things about gender pronouns.

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cmahler7 3239 days ago
He has no issue with gender pronouns, he has issues with the government legislating how people think and speak.
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zimpenfish 3239 days ago
I admit I've not been following his work closely but has he brought up these issues on any other topic than gender pronouns and "SJWs"?

A quick search also suggests he does have actual transphobic issues -

> At the event, Peterson outlined his criticism of transgender people, arguing that the idea that biological sex and gender were independent quantities was “wrong.”

And misogyny issues -

> “I think disciplines like women’s studies should be defunded,”

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/4/11/peterson-talk-dr...

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shrewduser 3239 days ago
How is defunding women's studies mysogyny? There are so many crap useless majors I would defund given the opportunity.
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