How to EXPOSE a Closet Fascist

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Jordan Peterson is good at this. Good at projecting the confidence of someone who's already settled the question before the question's actually been examined. Good at making a conversation move on his terms. So when he sat down with Destiny to discuss 20th-century political violence, the surface looked like rigour, citations, and stark facts — but underneath, something far more interesting was going on.

In this analysis we forensically examine Peterson's exchange and trace a very particular pattern in how he deploys certainty and scepticism. You'll start to see why his numbers don't quite add up, why one specific word he leans on does enormous rhetorical work, and why his most-cited talking point about Nazism has a problem that historians sorted out decades ago.

We pull apart the methodological sleight of hand, the convenient asymmetries, and the moment the entire structure quietly collapses on itself.

By the end, you'll have a tool — a single test — for spotting this pattern in any confident voice, on any topic. Including, if you're honest, your own.

Original Source Streaming, Politics, & Philosophy | ‪@destiny‬ | EP 433

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