The Left finds America’s bright red line

Late last decade, Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson argued Western society had an underdeveloped sense of when the Left goes too far. There was a justifiably heightened awareness around the pathologies of the Right, he argued, such as racial superiority and malignant nationalism. But the matter was less clear when it came to identifying pathology on the radical Left.

“When people make claims of racial superiority, we put them in a box and say, ‘You’re outside of acceptable political discourse,’” he said at Lafayette College. “But where the hell do you cross the line on the Left, exactly? Well, the answer is ‘Who knows?’ And that’s not a very good answer.”