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No need for that last little dig, Heath. I thought the rest of your post was perfectly sound.
On the ‘types’ who have may somehow ‘defended’ Brand I would just point out that they differ massively in their views and backgrounds. To lump Peterson with Galloway or Musk with Tate I find revealing and disturbing. I guess what apparently unites them is the perception that they are all that Sidey detests… untrustworthy, conspiracy theorists, blindly partisan etc I’ve no axe to grind for any of them .well, maybe Peterson .. and have always disliked Galloway .. but I do still maintain that referencing these individuals as a gang of ‘types’ shows that the political aspect of the Brand case can’t be discounted.
I don’t mean they’re one of the same politically, and I specifically said that some are less extreme than others, but all are united by a conspiracist mindset. At least now. I don’t think Peterson is a bad person in the way Tate is by the way, so I don’t mean it to say there are no differences.
I will say that when Jordan Peterson first burst into the mainstream I thought a lot of the criticism of him as an unreasoned crank was very unfair from the left. His interview on Channel 4 came across badly, from Channel 4’s end. However, I feel that in recent years, probably because of ill mental health, he has deteriorated into the caricature of what the left portrayed him as. Mostly, I feel sorry for him and think he needs to take a breather and seek some therapy, good therapy that challenges his mindset (not over politics, but over how he frames things), because he’s now posting tweets in weird haiku formats and making nothing but weird rambles, seemingly.
I don’t mean that they are all bad people, but they are all people who have judgement I find skewed and detached from reality or apologetic to such.