Taboo-breaker and a darling of the Right : Is Jordan Peterson of the most influential intellectuals of the West?

There is a drawing of Klaus Stuttmann, published by the daily mirror never. It was created in the year 2006, during the Protest riots in the Muslim world against the Mohammed cartoons. The drawing shows an angry editor-in-chief, looks at the latest caricature of the cartoonist and him yelling: "don't Think just because we emphasize to the Muslims against our freedom of the press, you could draw everything what you want!!" On the cartoon, two of the name could be spelled in are to be seen pigs, with the heads of Angela Merkel and Franz Müntefering.

What the hell is evil or rude, what is forbidden is discriminatory or not? Stuttmann had to choose a dramatic motif to illustrate: we in the West have boundaries, one is the currency, people not as animals. It applies even if the figure is just a quote. On the other hand, the consequence of Stuttmanns cartoon not used to print it, how right he was with her. Indeed, a Dilemma.

What to do with a scientist who sees himself as the champion for the freedom of speech, political correctness as "cultural Marxism" criticizes students as "social justice warriors" (fighters for social justice), the protection of minorities and equality initiatives as forms of identity politics criticized to the Foundation of Western civilization, to undermine?

"I'm a proud islamopho biker", is on the T-Shirt of the Fans

Jordan Peterson, a canadian psychologist, cultural critic and best-selling author, presents himself as a taboo breaker. For more than twenty years, he teaches at the University of Toronto, in the centre of his research on the psychology of religious and ideological faith. His scientific Expertise is undisputed. Now it wanted to win the faculty of theology at the University of Cambridge as a visiting lecturer.

But then a photo appeared in the social media, the Peterson with a Fan shows, wearing a black T-Shirt that says: "I am a proud islamopho biker." The photo was created a month ago during a book tour. Peterson says the picture was one of 30,000, on which he is posing in the last 15 months, with a trailer.

the photo Taken was, however, in new Zealand. It was shortly after the Islamophobic terrorist attack of Christchurch. Prompt Peterson of Cambridge was out again, new Zealand bookshops took his most recent best-selling book "12 Rules for Life" from the shelves.

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Peterson is never politically correct is an Influencer, on Youtube, millions follow him, is a columnist for the New York Times considers him one of the "currently most influential Intellectuals of the Western world", the global rights revered him. The effect of the controversy, therefore, is clear: anyone Who sympathizes with Peterson's views on rampant political correctness, confirmed, whoever rejects you, also. One of Peterson's twelve rules of life is: Go out always assume that your conversation partner does not know something, and you know it. At least the should take heed of followers as opponents.