Liberals everywhere in the United States, Western Europe, and Canada have been doing this thing now for years when they’re confronted with an idea that offends them: They cry and demand that whatever is bothering them be shut down. It often works.
The latest major case of argument by whining came this week when Vice reported that staff at Penguin Random House Canada collapsed in tears when they found out the company is publishing a book by popular author and culture critic Jordan Peterson. Executives at the company offered to host a group therapy session so the Sensitive Sallys could get things off their chest.
Citing anonymous employees, the report said that “people were crying in the meeting about how Jordan Peterson has affected their lives,” and one “co-worker discussed how Peterson had radicalized their father and another talked about how publishing the book will negatively affect their non-binary friend.”
Now that you’ve stopped laughing, it’s important to remember that this kind of childish, ignorant behavior is raging throughout Western culture. It’s how these people, often described as “social justice warriors,” get what they want. They don’t engage in critical thinking or make logical arguments. They whine and complain about being offended. They even sometimes claim to have been physically harmed by ideas they don’t want to hear themselves and don’t want other people to hear either. (Read more on this in my book Privileged Victims: How America’s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People.)
Peterson, by the way, is a completely harmless intellectual. His first book, 12 Rules for Life, features tips for young men such as, “Stand up straight with your shoulders back” and “Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.”
Aren’t you inconsolable after hearing such obscenities? I know I am.
Recall that the New York Times apologized for running a piece authored by a sitting U.S. senator after staff complained that its content might literally cause its writers physical harm.
Random House, so far, has not announced any plans to drop Peterson’s book — perhaps because its executives know that crying is not an argument.
