Ask people questions, let them speak without interruping them as much as possible, and report their words verbatim

Well yeah

that's what they taught me for the last two years in school

really? they don't teach yellow journalism?

I'm being taught by several ex-CBC writers

and one award-winner who's now got multiple books and has nothing but glowing reviews across the board

For that situation he was probably a little hurt by the fact that you called his opinion hearsay, despite the fact that it is just that.

Depends on how ground standing/good of a relationship you want with these people

I'm standing by my opinions without trying to hurt anyone else's feelings

It's not really that easy but I'm learning

The biggest issue is I'm not sure how receptive to opposing ideas these guys are yet.

I mean there are different ways to standby your opinions

For example you couldve said something along the lines of "thats interesting, i havent read/watched any of her content yet but ill check her out"

If they go on about wasting your time or not trusting them you can simply say the journalism requires legwork and you dont intend to skip it

The catch with "alt right darling" is that it can be commentary on either Southern herself or the Alt Right

It's not terribly honest

Even then though I find a lot of that stuff is bunk anyway. Wasn't that long ago that people pointed to satirical articles to try to paint Peterson as having a large alt-right/white supremacist following

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Why exactly is „the following“ relevant anyway? The important thing is what someone says, not who is listening.

Guilt by association

Oh absolutely

if people who are bad likes the thing, the person saying it must be bad

The argument is that they're obviously saying something that doesn't fit the narrative

I love how JBP handles that argument. It usually goes sometihng like

Since all these shady characters love them

Reproter: most of your followers are men does that concern you?
JBP: Most of Youtube is men, statistically it makes sense.

Rinse and repeat.

Well and his response to the alt right one is that it just isn't true, and he's right

Most alt-right articles about JBP are calling him a *filthy secret hidden ninja jew agent*

You go to the comments on his posts and videos and memestate kids are raging at him

Calling him a shill and shit

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Guilt by association... really gotta love the Blockwart mentality.

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Then again... not sure if Blockwart or Stasi-IM both fit.

Oh but don't forget, the evil alt right bigot Jordan Peterson just gives common sense self help advice

There's no point in listening to him since you should already know this stuff

Seriously though, JBP's rules should be common sense but that's part of the thing

due to a storm of various simultanious powergrabs and clusterfucks, his simple basic common fucking sense ideas for living smoothly have gone untaught in the last generation or so

Well... a lot of it is stuff you should know yourself, if you were raised correctly...

and by generation I vaguely say people from age 30ish and down, in mostly north america, without specific people in mind