And so in America, or Canada, since whites happen to be the majority, the culture is designed to suit them. His own scrutiny transforms “white privilege” into “majority privilege.” In China, the Chinese are the dominant race the culture is built to suit them.
White privilege doesn’t existĪfter listing numerous categories-health, wealth, age, economic status, and so on-he calls race and ethnicity “post-modernist.” He criticizes one woman’s views on white privilege, discussing how her paper was not peer-reviewed or subjected to critical scrutiny. Sometimes, however, the path to arrival makes you wonder where he was trying to get to in the first place. Have some courage.” He later warns not to “over-estimate your self-knowledge.” Yet he seems to excuse himself from this simple wisdom.īelow are five of Peterson’s more controversial ideas. In his book, Peterson writes, “Have some humility. Peterson replied by calling Mishra “arrogant” and “racist,” and, after a few moments of Zen reflection, said he’d happily slap him. This was displayed by Peterson when the writer Pankaj Mishra criticized the Canadian professor. Amid their garbled messaging about freedom from ego they’ve actually wrapped themselves so tightly in it they can’t breathe-which is, of course, the basis of yoga. Their fortress of words locks them in rather than opening them up. Watching Peterson react to criticism reminds me of aspiring yogis posting long spiritual quotes underneath pictures of themselves posturing. If you challenge a single word they crumble in disbelief. Then there’s the question of temperament.
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