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To: gg cox who wrote (139579)	3/2/2018 1:05:23 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Recommended By bart13 pak73 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217688

When people imagine what he said then disagree with their own imagination that's not controversy. Totalitarians disagree with him but that's just them wanting to boss people around, take opm, and be sadistic. That's not controversy. That's just how some people are. Mq

To: gg cox who wrote (139579)	3/2/2018 7:53:06 PM
From: GPS Info	Respond to of 217688

If you choose to dig deeper, controversial fits. (I also saw your later post). I wonder if we might have different views of the controversial nature of that video, but here is my take: In the first few seconds Peterson points to four people in a row and repeats “You’re oppressed” to each of them. He seems to suggest that everyone is oppressed in some way or another. I think this is his criticism of groups claiming to be victims of oppression, and he has generalized these groups into “post modernists” whom he mentions later in the segment. I’m not certain, but I think he includes feminists with the #metoo movement or Blacks with the Black Lives Matter protests. However, if everyone is oppressed then we can’t afford to spend time and money on all these groups who claim oppression. Around the 7:15 mark, he states (there’s also the CC) How do you overcome the suffering of life is: BE A BETTER PERSON!!! He says that this isn’t his idea and that it’s an old idea. Maybe he is referring to Confucius, 551 – 479 BCE: “To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.” He gives a clue with “college students, the postmodern types… They’re so ungrateful.” My take is that he feels people complain too much and he’s so tired of their ingratitude. My view is that there has been real oppression and it will continue into the future. Probably not in middle class Canada, but definitely in places like Syria, Russia and China. Anyway, I do believe he understands this audience probably doesn’t feel they’re all that oppressed given that they have the free time to listen to him, and laugh at the suggestion.