On Monday, Canadian clinical psychologist Prof. Jordan Peterson joined Fox News to discuss his recent appearance on HBO’s “Real Time” with Bill Maher, where he talked about the dangerous narrative of victimization.
Appearing on “FOX & Friends,” Peterson discussed the recent media-created controversy surrounding Turning Point USA’s Candace Owens and her warning about the dangers of victimhood.
“I think that Candace is commenting about the danger of adopting a victimization-oppressor narrative,” Peterson said. “And it’s a narrative that the hard left has really been pushing ever since Marx: that the world is composed of those who are victimized and those who are the oppressors and everyone successful is an oppressor and everyone else is a moral victim — like a morally acting victim.”
Peterson continued, “It’s a very, very dangerous narrative. And it’s certainly one that is unbelievably widespread on university campuses. To look at the world that way, to look at the world through a world identity lens puts us back in a tribal situation and will produce conflict.”
Peterson also addressed the issue of division in the United States between the political left and the rest of the country.
“If you want a civil society, then people have to be civil to one another, and I see that breaking down,” Peterson said. “We’ve always regarded the individual as the measure in the West and that’s the best idea the world has ever had, and if we lose that, then it’s going to be catastrophic.
“Everyone should be pushing against that, whether they’re on the right or the left, if they have any sense,” Peterson continued. “The moderate left needs to dissociate themselves from the radical-left, and this is something they refuse to do.”
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