Psychology: Social Justice Warriors & Political Correctness

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This guy is really good.

This short interview is Jordan Peterson, a research psychologist at the University of Toronto, and one of his graduate students discussing the psychological traits of political correctness advocates and social justice warriors. The grad student in particular talks about research on how these political attitudes are outgrowths of parent-child protection instincts, with the SJWs seeing themselves as the moral parents who must protect their "infants" (i.e., minorities, women, immigrants, and any other oppressed class) from harm.



Now, absorb that for a moment, and then look at these two examples from this week.

The University of Michigan Law School (the LAW SCHOOL!) set up this post-election event for its students (LAW STUDENTS!) with coloring sheets, play-doh, and bubbles, so they could process their feeling about the election:



Second, in the last couple of days SJWs on Twitter have apparently got the hashtag #safetypin going, as a symbol to tell minorities, immigrants, women, etc., that they are "safe" with the aforesaid SJWs:





https://twitter.com/hashtag/safetypin?src=hash

The message to minorities, women, immigrants, etc. is: I know you're afraid, my little babies, but don't worry, mommy is here and will protect you.

^ I guess these guys weren't Rosicrucians:



Poor fellow on the ground should have remembered to wear his safety pin.

Lol yeah, probably not.

Maybe we need a red, white, and blue pin with the message that we'll stand beside you and protect you from getting beat up regardless of who you voted for. That's a pin I'd wear.

I never thought of it that way. I could definitely see some SJWs being overly maternal and protective. A lot of them are very violent though. Not just overprotective, but actually hateful, as in the video posted earlier on this thread.

One thing Jordan often says, almost on repeat, is that Marxist Leninism of the sort that constitutes leftist activism is a system of thought that advocates watching any game, taking note of those who are well off, taking note of those who are worse off, and encouraging those who are worse off to take those who are better off by violence. It's purely destructive, non value-adding, and by design is in a state of massive perpetual failure that makes the modern baby-boomer office fiefdom inefficiencies look like savant productivity by comparison.

The problem with the sort of behavior he's talking about, as he notes, is that those who are better off are the producers, they're the hirers, they're the successful farmers (such as in the case of the Russian kulaks), they're the people who have a system of adding value to society built about as well as it can be built to the knowledge of the present players. Those who go for the notion of taking the farm by storm and dividing up the spoils typically have no idea how to farm, or if it's a business how to do better with it than that sole proprietor or board and upper management who ran it. Part of the starvation and constant failure under Stalin and later Krhrushchev wasn't just the deliberate starvation of the Ukraine or the party confiscation of the grain from the peasants and leaving them on something like the North Korean diet; it was huge inefficiencies. Worse, as I recall from part of Gulag Archipelago, they weren't just rounding up political enemies, they were rounding up any ghosts or phantoms that reminded them of political enemies - including reemerging farmers who were starting to do well again because they reminded them of kulaks.

The whole thing leads not just to collective insanity but horrific violence. While I don't think SJW's themselves have it in them to round up the cis-normatives in camps (the image is completely laughable) I do share Peterson's concern that they'll do such a good job of eroding free speech that something quite serious and quite capable of the task could come up behind them once they've started it in motion.

Do you notice next to nothing is ever done to protect those with ASD by the SJW's? they'll protest over someone being "misgendered" but if a person with ASD is attacked (like the poor little boy set on fire months back by his "friends") they're dead silent **crickets**.

Jordan said something really important between 16:00 and 16:30

What he's saying is that liberal personalities are more inventive and creative, conservative personalities are more industrious, and that a healthy economy includes a circulation between the two where the activities of both aid the other. His more specific suggestion was that liberals were inherently more entrepreneurial and that their higher and middle management would usually be conservative based on the roles. Going by what he's saying I'd have to guess that R&D would be liberal and that when you see this mass accumulation of holding companies buying up other companies for their R&D rather than doing it themselves, then stopping that company's R&D, homogenizing it to the parent company's way of doing things, and then racing to go out and by more companies who do good R&D - that's an imbalance of conscientiousness at the expense of creativity.

It really sounds like what he's suggesting as well might be that conservatives have a tendency toward managerial myopia and not being able to think past month-end or quarter-end with respect to investment and results.