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Observing the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis’s election, the man the New York Times’ David Brooks called “the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now” decided to sneer at him.
Francis believes (in journalist Peter Laffin’s accurate summary) that “authentic social justice is not antithetical to Christianity,” which seems the equivalent of a doctor telling older people to eat more fiber. But Jordan Peterson wasn’t having it. “First, yes it is,” he tweeted, “because it is predicated on group rather than individual categorization; second, we see damn little of ‘authentic’ social justice @pontifex and a lot of ideology.”
When this well-respected but obscure university psychology professor first came to public notice, for rejecting an anti-academic restriction on the way he spoke, I felt sympathy for him. I grew up with cantankerous academics — almost all on the left — whose rebellion kept the boundaries of discourse wider than they would be without them.
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Francis believes (in journalist Peter Laffin’s accurate summary) that “authentic social justice is not antithetical to Christianity,” which seems the equivalent of a doctor telling older people to eat more fiber. But Jordan Peterson wasn’t having it. “First, yes it is,” he tweeted, “because it is predicated on group rather than individual categorization; second, we see damn little of ‘authentic’ social justice @pontifex and a lot of ideology.”
When this well-respected but obscure university psychology professor first came to public notice, for rejecting an anti-academic restriction on the way he spoke, I felt sympathy for him. I grew up with cantankerous academics — almost all on the left — whose rebellion kept the boundaries of discourse wider than they would be without them.
Continued below.
David Mills: Pope Francis understands Christianity better than Jordan Peterson
Observing the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis’s election, the man the New York Times’ David Brooks called “the most influential...
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