Daniel Peterson: "Gender Ideology Harms Children"

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_Johannes
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Re: Daniel Peterson: "Gender Ideology Harms Children"

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The caption to Dr Peterson's photograph is what struck me:

How many males are there is this photo? How many females? Wrong! No matter HOW you answered! And it’s not enough to describe you as a knuckle-dragging holdover from the era of Ozzie and Harriet and as a simplistic, retrograde, binary-minded heteronormativist. You’re a hater and a bigot.

The sad thing is that Dr Peterson is clearly a highly intelligent man, and I doubt that he is bigoted towards LGBT people in his personal life. He knows better than to descend to this sort of wretched, third-rate rhetoric.
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Johannes wrote: He knows better than to descend to this sort of wretched, third-rate rhetoric.


The poor guy has a blog to write. Oh yes, and space to fill in Deseret News every week.

How I wish he was still devoting his energies to something worthwhile, like the Middle Eastern Texts initiative.
Zadok:
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That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
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Re: Daniel Peterson: "Gender Ideology Harms Children"

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I think DCP is an interesting guy and I'd be interested to hear from anyone here who's familiar with his academic output. It seems odd to find someone who produces bona fide scholarship on Islamic philosophy one minute and vacuous political rhetoric the next, but I suppose it's not unprecedented (Roger Scruton being another example that comes to mind).
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