News Jordan Peterson's best seller pulled from NZ retailer

[DraX]

This all reminds me of when the Nazis suppressed reading and burned books. Is the left/liberal ideology our modern Nazis?

Whitcoulls, New Zealand’s largest bookstore franchise, pulled the work of Jordan Peterson from its shelves Wednesday in response to the mosque shootings that claimed 50 lives in Christchurch last week.

Peterson’s book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, which contains a chapter addressing the particular strain of nihilism that gave rise to the Columbine and Sandy Hook school shootings, was removed after management learned of “extremely disturbing material being circulated prior, during and after the Christchurch attacks,” according to independent journalist Tim Pool’s correspondence with a Whitcoull’s spokesman.

“As a business which takes our responsibilities to our communities very seriously, we believe it would be wrong to support the author at this time,” the email continues.

David Seymour, who leads New Zealand’s conservative ACT party, told Newshub that banning the book will have the opposite of its intended effect.

“You don’t fight neo-Nazism by suppressing reading and books. Anyone who knows any history knows that’s the opposite of how you fight these kind of ideas,” said Seymour. “A self-help book is an incredibly strange thing to suppress. I think Whitcoulls have made the wrong decision, but I respect they’re a private company, it’s their right.”

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/...que-shootings/

[DraX]

^^^ Jordan Peterson triggers liberal NZ retailer.

[Matt 26z]

The book is #6 on the Amazon charts.

https://www.amazon.com/charts/2019-0..._BK_RD_NF_6_DP

[OneHungLo]

Wow it's crazy they shut down free speech there. it's crazy how they shut down information. They are really fascist there. Thank fucking god we still have our 1A!

[PR_Glen]

Originally Posted by DraX

^^^ Jordan Peterson triggers liberal NZ retailer.

Jordan Peterson is a liberal leaning professor and has been for decades, you would know this if you actually read his work and payed attention to his lectures.. He is just in disagreement with a lot of people who overshoot to the left.

Again, BIG DIFFERENCE.

The left isn't the enemy. People who refute opposition are. Don't do that and you become a part of the solution rather than continuing the problem.

[Bladewire]

The left = protest to create change.

The right = kill innocent unarmed children & parents in church via multiple mass shootings, and mail pipe bombs to politicians & media figures

[OneHungLo]

Originally Posted by PR_Glen

The left isn't the enemy. People who refute opposition are. Don't do that and you become a part of the solution rather than continuing the problem.

Anyone shutting down free speech on the level the left are doing are the enemy. Thank god we have the 1st here.

[DraX]

Originally Posted by PR_Glen

Jordan Peterson is a liberal leaning professor and has been for decades, you would know this if you actually read his work and payed attention to his lectures.. He is just in disagreement with a lot of people who overshoot to the left.

Again, BIG DIFFERENCE.

The left isn't the enemy. People who refute opposition are. Don't do that and you become a part of the solution rather than continuing the problem.

Modern left is not the same type of left we had 20-30 years ago, The left taking space today is THE enemy to common sense and well functioning societies. Their biggest interest is to protect minorities no matter what.

Let me share with you how I see Jordan Peterson, I know he's not a right-winger, neither does he have anything in common with the liberalism we're experiencing today. Classic liberalism seems to fit him better, but what's most important is how he lives his life, he uses common sense. That's what I like and he has very little or nothing in common with modern liberalism.

Did you know this, I believe it was last year he received a question from a TV chat host and he was supposed to only pick one of the two:

Political Correctness or Trump?

Glen any idea what he replied?

[RedFred]

Originally Posted by OneHungLo

Wow it's crazy they shut down free speech there. it's crazy how they shut down information. They are really fascist there. Thank fucking god we still have our 1A!

So because a retailer decides to not sell a book you compare it to fascism and bring up the 1st Amendment? Are you fucking stupid? Wait..don't answer.

[RedFred]

Originally Posted by DraX

This all reminds me of when the Nazis suppressed reading and burned books. Is the left/liberal ideology our modern Nazis?

Does this remind you of the Nazis too?


The burning of books is nothing new to True Christians®. We invented the practice over two-thousand years ago as a way to promote our faith in the Lord Jesus. In the early days of Christianity, when new believers in Christ were converted, they were naturally moved by the Holy Spirit to grab as many books as they could and pitch them into a fire.

Book Burning: A True Christian® Tradition

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by RedFred

Does this remind you of the Nazis too?


The burning of books is nothing new to True Christians®. We invented the practice over two-thousand years ago as a way to promote our faith in the Lord Jesus. In the early days of Christianity, when new believers in Christ were converted, they were naturally moved by the Holy Spirit to grab as many books as they could and pitch them into a fire.

Book Burning: A True Christian® Tradition

The Christians took everyone's alcohol away during prohibition as well and they made prostitution illegal.

Try getting a Christian book retailer to carry a possitive book about homosexuality. They won't do it.

Try getting a Christian school to allow a speaker to speak in a positive manner about homosexuality. It won't happen.

They cloak their fascism with religion. Christians & Muslims both.

[Matt 26z]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

The left = protest to create change.

What change has the left ever brought about from protests?

[Diomed]

Funny how liberals openly tolerate this shit.

If I were the ruling class I would want a bunch of liberals to control. Cake walk.

[babeterminal]

this man is responsible for putting many young ppl in institutions