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MAGIC VALLEY For one Idaho family, the importance of blood donations became clear after their five-year-old son, Jack Moser, was hit by a trailer while out camping.

One mistake nearly cost Jack his life.

Jacks just new to being on a bike and he turned and tipped over and he fell under the wheels of the trailer. It was one of those situations where it was nobody's fault. Nobody was acting recklessly or doing anything they werent supposed to. It was just an accident," Jordan Peterson, Jack's Uncle, said.

Jack was losing a lot of blood and in order to save his life, he was flown to a Salt Lake City hospital where he received 11 units of blood.

To put that into perspective, thats more blood than I have and Im 61 250 pounds. I mean thats enough blood to go into a five-year-old, he was tiny. I think that gives you an idea of how much blood he was losing and how important this blood is," Peterson said.

After realizing how vital the blood was to save Jack's life, the family decided to do their part and help set up blood drives to encourage people to donate blood.

Im a paramedic, I understand that blood is important. You need it to make your bodywork. When you dont have that and when you have a family member that needs it, then you realize how important it is," Peterson said.

The severe weather happening across the country has caused a blood shortage nationwide after the Red Cross has been forced to cancel more than 10,000 blood and platelet donations in certain states. They are encouraging Idahoans to donate if they can, to help people nationwide.

Blood donations are critically important. Its not something you can manufacture. In many regards it's kind of similar to an organ donation, it's something so many people count on," Matt Ochsner, Reginal Communications Director of The Red Cross, said.

Jack's family created Help Jack Giveback, a Facebook page, and a way for the family to give back to the community after they received support following Jack's accident. They say their plan moving forward, is to host an annual blood drive.

Where he went from needing 11 units of blood to now where he's running around being a kid today, shows thats such an important part of the process. Thats why we want to help make sure that whoever else goes through this process doesnt have to wonder if they are going to have enough blood," Peterson said.

To learn more about Help Jack Give back you can visit their Facebook page. You can also visit the Red Cross's website to check on blood drives happening near you.

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LAWRENCE, Kan. Running back Pooka Williams officially earned an invitation to the 2021 NFL Scouting Combine on Tuesday.

The combine this year is virtual under current COVID-19 health and safety protocols, but the NFL still released a full list of invitees. Williams will participate in the Kansas Football Pro Day on Friday, where his results and video of his workout will be shared with NFL personnel.

Williams played in 26 games for the Jayhawks over three seasons and rushed for 2,382 yards on 415 carries. He averaged 5.7 yards per carry. He showed off his versatility during his time as a Jayhawk, catching 66 passes for 534 yards and four touchdowns. He also totaled 443 yards on kick returns, including a return for a touchdown this year against West Virginia.

This marks the fourth straight year Kansas has been represented at the combine. Last year, Hakeem Adeniji and Azur Kamara both received in invitations. In 2019, Daniel Wise attended, one year after fellow defensive lineman Dorance Armstrong received an invitation in 2018.

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On 20 March 2019, Thierry Baudet provided Dutch television viewers with two surprises. The first was news of his landslide victory in that days senate elections. Baudets far-right Forum for Democracy (FvD) was a newcomer in parliament, holding just two seats out of 150 in the lower house. But that day, from scratch, Forum gained 12 of the senates 75 seats, putting it on a par with the governing liberal party (the VVD) led by prime minister Mark Rutte.

The second surprise was Baudets victory speech. The owl of Athena spreads her wings as evening falls, he started, and across the country, jaws dropped and drinks were spilled. The Netherlands is not a country noted for oratory. Our politicians would rather downplay their intellectual prowess than borrow from Greek mythology.

Back then, the future must have looked promising for the dynamic young leader: if he could win the Senate elections, could Baudet win the general elections in March 2021?

Most commentators thought he had a chance. For many years the far right of Dutch politics had been served by Geert Wilders PVV (Freedom party). Wilders is not known for quoting political thinkers, and tends to be coarse in his speech, for example speaking about imposing a head-rag tax on hijab-wearing women. For the better educated, socially conservative, small government-minded voter who is not a fan of immigration, voting for Wilders is not an option. The civilised right, as its often called in the Netherlands, would either continue to vote VVD or for one of the conservative Christian parties.

But Baudet seemed a palatable alternative. He served the same smrgsbord of nostalgia, nationalism and anti-immigrant xenophobia as Wilders, but he presented as a more clean-cut, decent, thoughtful figure. He had international links through his partys youth movement to Europes populist or far-right figures from Orban to Le Pen. His Jordan Peterson-style discourse appealed to young men at universities. The Dutch media immediately loved him (or loved to hate him); after Wilders arctic landscape of ideas, here now finally were some political theories for pundits to dissect.

One word, however, stuck out from that victory speech, even for Baudets supporters.Like all those other countries in the boreal world, he said, we are being demolished by the people who should have been protecting us.

It was difficult not to interpret boreal as anything but a dog whistle to the extreme right, for whom the word is code for white. Baudet Baudet has always denied he is a racist and insisted that boreal was just another way of saying northern. People seemed to give him the benefit of the doubt. Or at least his poll numbers were growing, as was membership of FvD and its youth wing. He assembled an electoral list including seasoned establishment politicians and young upcoming conservatives. The party looked like a serious contender.

Then it all fell apart first gradually, then suddenly. The slow decline was a direct result of the pandemic. Voters Baudet might have stolen from the liberal party rallied behind Rutte who, early on in the crisis, began enjoying a 75% approval rating.

Baudet questioned Ruttes increasingly strict lockdown policies as a corona dictatorship, then questioned the virus itself. Wasnt it just a little flu? Wasnt the World Health Organization trying to control the political order?

The more seasoned politicians in his party started to get anxious. Embracing conspiracy theories would lose them the ear of the civilised right.

And then it all blew up in a Death Star kind of way. In November, antisemitic remarks from the Forum youth wings WhatsApp groups were leaked to the press. Instead of investigating the claims of antisemitism, Baudet expelled the whistleblowers.

This did not sit well with others on his electoral list, and a few days later it was leaked to the press that Baudet had said that George Soros invented Covid, and that practically everyone he knew was an antisemite.

In the controversy that followed, Baudet stunned everyone by stepping down as party leader but then reversed, demanding a party referendum on his position. Flabbergasted, most of the partys remaining candidates now wanted him out altogether. It was mayhem. In one of the more media-savvy moments, they had the locks changed to the party headquarters, so Baudet couldnt come in again.

When the party leadership gave in to the referendum the more seasoned members simply quit. As did many Forum politicians in local councils and in the Senate. Of the 12 senators who won seats in the 2019 election, only two are still attached to his party.

More leaked WhatsApp conversations followed, this time of Baudet himself allegedly making racist remarks. On live TV Baudet disclosed that hed had a romantic entanglement with Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a young woman on his electoral list, who was engaged to a French associate of Marine Le Pen. The TV show then played an audio clip of Vlaardingerbroek speaking about her disappointment in Baudets antics and what she claimed was callous racism. Baudet looked briefly shaken and in a small voice said that he had to readjust himself to this news.

The introspection didnt last long. Instead of backtracking, with the elections less than a fortnight away, Baudet has now gone into full Trump mode. His anti-lockdown, anti-vaxxer rhetoric has become more extreme, more conspiracy minded, more anti-media, even suggesting that his followers use creative solutions to optimise proxy voting to the partys advantage.

Since last week hes even been donning a baseball cap.

The one thing that was constantly said about Covid last year, was that it was a great revealer; it revealed the gap between rich and poor, the employed and the unemployed, the old and the young. Covid has also now revealed what Baudet really is; not just the flamboyant and outspoken intellectual that he wanted people to believe he is, but a conspiracy-mongering antisemitic populist, willing to undermine facts, health care, the free press and even democracy, to remain a focal point in Dutch politics.

Is it working? Half of Forum voters now believe Covid was developed to suppress the civilian population.

The problem for Baudet is there are not too many Forum voters left. He is marginalised in the polls and the media have moved on. Dont be fooled by overblown reporting of the recent anti-lockdown, anti-curfew riots which are not a factor in the election. Baudets radical turn has lost him the support of more mainstream voters, because thats also what Covid revealed: that the Netherlands is not a country for baseball caps and a paranoid style of politics. In times of crisis, we like to stay close to what we know. So the mainstream Rutte, in charge for 11 years now, commands a lead in the polls that seems insurmountable by any party.

Baudets demise has helped Wilders support to recover. His party is expected to take 20 seats, more or less the same level of support hes had for a decade. But these are seats that are next to useless, since no mainstream party is willing to work with him, just as he is not willing to work with them. Wilders seems happiest when he is far away from government responsibility.

Baudet will probably keep his current two seats in parliament, if hes lucky he might gain a couple. But hes no longer a contender.

Then again: like Trump, Baudet doesnt believe in the polls.

Joost de Vries is a Dutch author

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On "The Rubin Report" this week, BlazeTV host Dave Rubin spoke with Dr. Jordan Peterson, author of "12 Rules for Life" and "Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life," about giving motivational life advice while struggling with his own recovery, major depression, and how to deal with trauma that haunts you.

Jordan began by discussing the past two years, his severe illness, and his recovery. He described the depression that runs in his family and the toll the chronic stress of constant controversy and attacks by the mainstream media have taken on him.

He also acknowledged the odd position he finds himself in, as someone who gives advice while his own life has seemingly come apart, and shared how bringing order to aspects of your life can reduce social anxiety.

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The Linden varsity girls basketball team won six games last year.

The Eagles have played just seven games this season and are already just one victory away from matching that total.

The Eagles (5-2) won their two most recent games, defeating Kearsley 54-40 on Friday and defeating Durand 51-41 on Wednesday.

In the win against Kearsley, the Eagles led 15-8 after the first quarter. The Eagles led by 13 at halftime, but the Hornets fought back. The Eagles lead was just 40-37 entering the fourth quarter. As the fourth continued, Kearsley took a three-point lead, but the Eagles were able to bounce back and earn the comfortable victory.

They calmed down and were able to get back to playing like they did in the first half to finish the game by double-digits, Linden varsity girls basketball coach Zack Darling said.

Overall, it was a good game by both teams and a great conference win for Linden since they have not defeated Kearsley in many years.

Darling was correct. The last time the Eagles defeated Kearsley was a 40-36 victory on Feb. 10, 2016.

The Eagles were very balanced with their scoring. Jordan Peterson led the squad with nine points while Kelsey McLennan, Delanie Prince and Mallory Ross had seven points each. Paige Leedle chipped in six points while Megan Widner had five points.

In the non-league victory against Durand Olivia Mawhinney led the Eagles with 10 points, McLennan had nine points but was dominant inside the paint in other ways. She had 18 rebounds and seven blocks. She also had four assists and two steals. Peterson netted nine points while Allison Maienbrook and Mallory Ross had seven points each. Widner had five points while Leedle chipped in four points.

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There are a number of acceptable excuses for a celebrity to miss a big press conference. A serious personal matter with family. An illness or injury. Some sort of massive traffic build-up or travel delay.

Does being down $900,000 in a game of spades that lasted for a day and a half qualify?

According to longtime NBA star Antoine Walker, a Chicago native who helped to play a part in Michael Jordan's comeback to the NBA for the 2001-2002 season, that's exactly what forced Jordan to postpone a press conference. No, not just any press conference. The press conference to announce his comeback plans.

Walker joined Patrick Peterson and Bryant McFadden on CBS Sports' "All Things Covered" to share a classic Michael Jordan story involving his competitiveness, their friendship and just a little bit of gambling.

"...When Mike calls, the buy-in goes a little higher. Let me just start with that," Walker explained. "So it's gonna be a number put on that everybody got to bring to the table. I'd say probably $20,000. Gotta have 20... just to get in. You ain't got 20 to get in, you can't even play, so that starts that.

"And then Mike is competitive, man. I remember one time we played spades for 36 hours. We were playing against two other guys. Me and Mike were partners and... they had us stuck, behind 900,000.

"What made it even more interesting, it was the day he actually was supposed to make his announcement he was officially coming back. He canceled the press conference, everything. We played for 36 hours, man."

For what it's worth, I probably would have conceded defeat somewhere around, oh, $899,950 ago, but I'm not a big gambler. With stakes like those, I likely wouldn't even have been allowed to come within a mile of the table.

They also weren't playing with markers of some sort they were using cold, hard cash.

"This is what happened: I was leaving for Boston in a couple days, so I had about $100,000. I was always a cash person, I had my money," Walker recalled. "MJ had about $200 (thousand) on him. MJ sent for half a million, cash. Sent for it. And then the other guys we played against had money, too. So they had us down $900,000.

"We got all the money except $20,000. Mike did not want to see them with 20, so they ended up winning 180. He got too tired, we couldn't go no more. He was falling asleep at the table... Every gambling session didn't go 36 hours, but we had some competitive gambling sessions."

If you somehow missed out on "The Last Dance" and you weren't quite sure how deep Jordan's competitive side went, this serves as a pretty good off-the-court example. Battling back from down $900,000 would have been insanely impressive, and you'd have to wonder where such a feat would have ranked on MJ's list of all-time greatest comebacks should it have come to fruition.

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(RADIO.COM Sports) There are a number of acceptable excuses for a celebrity to miss a big press conference -- a personal matter with family, an illness or injury, some sort of massive traffic build-up or travel delay.

Does being down $900,000 in a game of spades that lasted for a day-and-a-half qualify?

Because according to former NBA star Antoine Walker, a Chicago native who helped play a part in the legendary Michael Jordan's comeback to the NBA for the 2001-'02 season, that's exactly what forced Jordan to postpone a press conference. And not just any press conference -- it was the press conference to announce his comeback plans.

Walker joined Patrick Peterson and Bryant McFadden on "All Things Covered" on CBS Sports to share a classic Jordan story involving his competitiveness, their friendship and just a little bit of gambling.

"When Mike calls, the buy-in goes a little higher. Let me just start with that," Walker explained. "So it's gonna be a number put on that everybody got to bring to the table. I'd say probably $20,000. Gotta have 20 ... just to get in. You ain't got 20 to get in, you can't even play, so that starts that.

"And then Mike is competitive, man. I remember one time we played spades for 36 hours. We were playing against two other guys. Me and Mike were partners and ... they had us stuck, behind 900,000.

"What made it even more interesting, it was the day he actually was supposed to make his announcement he was officially coming back. He canceled the press conference, everything. We played for 36 hours, man."

They also weren't playing with markers of some sort they were using cold, hard cash.

"This is what happened: I was leaving for Boston in a couple days, so I had about $100,000," Walker said. "I was always a cash person, I had my money. MJ had about $200 (thousand) on him. MJ sent for half a million, cash. Sent for it. And then the other guys we played against had money too. So they had us down $900,000.

"We got all the money except $20,000. Mike did not want to see them with 20, so they ended up winning 180. He got too tired, we couldn't go no more. He was falling asleep at the table ... Every gambling session didn't go 36 hours, but we had some competitive gambling sessions."

If you somehow missed out on "The Last Dance" and you weren't quite sure how deep Jordan's competitive side went, this serves as another pretty good off-the-court example. Battling back from down $900,000 would've been insanely impressive, and you'd have to wonder where such a feat would have ranked on Jordan's list of all-time greatest comebacks should it have come to fruition.

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On Jan. 6, 2021, insurrectionists stormed the United States Capitol in Washington D.C., as Donald Trumps loss to President-elect Joe Biden was being finalized through the certification of each states electoral college votes. The domestic terrorists smashed windows, stole and even killed as lawmakers hung onto their lives precariously until the originally tame response to the rioters shifted to something more assertive. There were white supremacists dressed in vile camp Auschwitz garb and carrying Confederate flags. Indeed, this was the first time the flag had breached into the Capitol in the context of insurrection having previously only been in the Capitol as part of Mississippis old state flag that was replaced by a new one in November. Such a feat had not been accomplished even during the Civil War.

Those who stormed the Capitol did so at Trump and his entourages behest. Earlier in the day, he had spoken of walking down Pennsylvania Avenue, telling his supporters you'll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong. In only a matter of hours, his supporters did exactly as he told, leaving the country and indeed the whole watching world in shock, as America, a pre-eminent bastion of democracy, found its soul almost eviscerated.

Such is the power of demagoguery. Those hungry for power play into their naive audiences deepest fears and painful experiences and feed into conspiracies, best evidenced by a new wave of elected Republican representatives like Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina. This rabbit hole is carefully constructed, luring people to the very bottom of a bottomless pit. Perhaps it makes sense to understand how and why the rabbit hole draws people in and maybe then speculate on what could be done to plug the hole.

First and foremost, we have the media. Humans are inherently bias-driven creatures and such biases can work their way into a journalists mind. Yet, most reliable sources can be verifiably considered reliable due to the journalistic processes employed by reporters that eliminate bias as much as humanly possible. Some outlets, however, do such an excellent job of masquerading as reliable sources minus the journalistic standards of course that they rack up strong ratings. Cable news channels like Newsmax saw significant ratings boosts after the 2020 election, posing a challenge to the original mainstay Fox News. All of these channels perpetuate a world far removed from reality, lying in wait to snare those who respond positively to falsehoods. They often employ dog whistles to appeal to their viewers fears through implication, speaking of the erosion of western culture there is no monolithic western culture rather than saying the racist thing out loud, or labeling everything as communist.

Demographics for channels like Fox News outline a clear age and racial pattern of viewership. According to Pew Research, about nine in 10 Fox News viewers (87%) are non-Hispanic white, with about four in 10 (37%) being 65 or older. It is indeed older white people that soak up destructive misinformation from the news and circulate it on social media. They could be and quite likely are your neighbors or your family.

The state of Wyoming where about 70% of the vote went to Trump sees about 60% of those aged 65 and older not having a college degree. A college degree is by no means a necessity in todays society, but can certainly be used to justify how easily such media platforms are able to sow distrust in reality. The critical thinking skills provided by a college education and the opportunity for interaction with diverse people and ideas is missing, leaving the door open for comfortable lies including those that label a college education itself as propaganda (the data disagrees) and subject it to distrust to enter and fester.

Rural isolation, financial condition and education could really help explain how and why the rabbit hole works. These factors can allow individualistic, isolationist and bigoted views to take root. After all, abstract concepts such as intersectionality simply do not hold firm in such an environment and only sound like jargon. Demagogues are aware of this and often keep things simple, while liberal or even progressive messaging can appear out of touch. Misinformation is also free of cost while reliable news is often kept behind a paywall. Reliable journalism requires financial backing and requesting funds from readers, which ensures more transparency than taking funds from a single rich donor, but the matter of the fact remains that a subscription is the least of a working class persons concerns and leaves an opening to be exploited.

A lot has often been said about this older demographic and it is clear that the last four years have been difficult for the younger generation who face a misinformation generation gap. It is probably impossible to do anything besides making things painfully obvious, perhaps through satire as Id mentioned in another article. Expanding accessible mental healthcare should be a focus too, for some of the reactions to the election cycle from those in the rabbit hole are just sad to see and indicate need for genuine help. Perhaps invoking less academic messaging and more simplistic messaging might work too but, by and large, the older generation is too well programmed, too deep in the hole and too set in their ways. They may very well not be saved entirely but hopefully enough not to stage further insurrections.

This does not hold true for all people who have been sucked in, however. In recent times, younger people have also found themselves lured by the rabbit hole.

Television and radio just dont have as great of an effect on younger people. Instead, YouTube can often prove to be a platform for right wing and even alt-right voices. The YouTube algorithm is especially potent. The content on YouTube often utilizes dog whistles in some ways similar to cable news that target the lonely and vulnerable. For instance, a straight, white male who might have faced a lot of bullying and rejection early on could easily stumble across one single video mocking feminists and SJWs, followed by one touting feminism to be the source of all his woes; this then leads him down the path of recommended videos which ends at the fringes of YouTube with outright conspiracy theories about cultural Marxism and white supremacy. Channels like PragerU have well established themselves on YouTube and personalities like Jordan Peterson and Stefan Molyneaux are also widely found on the platform. They could be considered greatly effective starting points for people, eventually leading the lost to a path of radicalization through the algorithm that doubles down. One could then step out of YouTube and find themselves in forums and chat rooms or watching direct conspiracy programming like InfoWars, thus completing the radicalization.

In simple words, alt-right and conservative content creators have been smart and gamed the platform in order to exploit those in hardship who would easily blame the world around them, view the left as a caricature and eventually buy into blatant misinformation and conspiracy theories outside of mainstream spaces as well. YouTube may very well have influenced future insurrectionists and possibly some who were in the crowd that day in D.C.

How can we combat this? We can fight fire with fire. YouTube did make alterations to its algorithm to try and combat this, but more must be done. My hypothetical example was inspired by real stories where people who had fallen some way into the rabbit hole managed to find their way out. They did so through engagement with progressive content.

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Progressive YouTubers like Vaush, Destiny and Contrapoints began mimicking the style of right-wing YouTube, utilizing similar phrases in video titles. The algorithm then did the rest. These videos featured creative, simplified and active debate on the concepts that were previously so well manipulated to exploit the viewers personal struggles, thus helping in deradicalization. This is where the answer lies, if further insurrections are to be prevented. It acts in much the same way as lighting up a dark room with a single torch, which then enables one to find the light switch and then the light itself.

Unlike the older generation that may be set in their ways, the younger generations can definitely be saved. It is wise to keep an eye on those around you and ensure that no one floats in isolation like an island in the sea. They could easily and quite heartbreakingly morph into the next radical insurrectionist with vile views if they find the wrong video online during a low point in their life. The reactionary nature of progressives can often push people further to the brink. Progressive YouTubers are doing what ordinary progressives often struggle to do: Engage with people, rather than cancel.

All of this points out the most significant issue faced by democracy, which is also its biggest asset: Democracy depends on the vote of the people. Socrates feared that not everyone would be an ideal, informed voter and those who were clever enough would simply speak the right words and appeal to the ignorant masses, thus creating a destructive mob of loyalists. It is democracy that killed Socrates after all, with a vote declaring that he be killed by poison hemlock for corrupting minds.

Despite the obvious flaws in democracy, it is the preferred mode of governance of the land of the free and one that nations around the world have valiantly fought for. The session did commence on that fateful day and now we have a President Joe Biden in office. However, the threat cannot be downplayed. Work must be done to ensure the rabbit holes are plugged before the holes gape wide and the ground underneath our feet caves entirely, leaving democracy to die in tatters and demagoguery to rise in its place.

Anupras is a sophomore studying Computer Science and Journalism. Do you feel as if alt-right sympathies have increased in the last decade? Is our democracy still safe from such a threat? Send all comments to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Jordan Peterson has made countless controversial and confusing statements about gender politics, but perhaps his most bewildering public persona of all is as a friend to Matthew McConaughey.

McConaughey has long been Hollywoods resident cool guy with a laid-back attitude that would make anyone assume he was reasonably progressive, as far as politics were concerned.

But dont let the surfer style and zen drawl fool youMcConaughey has been making friends in far-right circles for some time now.

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His book tour for the 2020 release of his memoir, Greenlights, made pit stops at The Joe Rogan Experience and at male rights activist Jordan Petersons podcast.

And while this was all in the name of promo, McConaughey seems to be making a very deliberate attempt to pitch his book to the audiences of these controversial figures who are vanguards of the so-called intellectual dark-web.

McConaugheys Joe Rogan appearance is less surprising, as the podcast host has spoken to everyone from Miley Cyrus to Milo Yiannopoulos.

But McConaugheys friendship with Jordan Peterson reveals some not-so-liberal truths about the Oscar-winning actor.

Peterson is a champion of male rights and many debunked anti-trans theories.

Peterson has taken a stab at many progressive social and political issues, but his main enemy is political correctness in general. Most of his podcast and public speaking is spent critiquing liberal snowflakes who want basic human rights.

In 2016, he zeroed in on Canadian legislation that prohibited discrimination based on gender-pronouns. Peterson promoted the false idea that this legislation would allow people to be arrested for misgendering trans and non-binary people.

Since then, he has become something of a self-help guru for those clinging to their masculinity. Most recently,he has been making headlines for his drug addiction and a possible schizophrenia diagnosis.

McConaugheys memoir was inspired by Petersons controversial career.

Thus, it is interesting albeit concerning that McConaughey made a point of thanking Peterson not only in their conversation together, but in a dedicated section at the back of Greenlights.

McConaughey told Peterson that his work gave him the motivation to write his memoir.

Many of the things you said I had been thinking about, but I heard you putting them into words and contexts, I was like, Wow, thats what Im talking about, thats what Im trying to get to, he told the podcast host. And a lot of it goes back to self-determination, which weve talked a lot about. Self-authoring.

McConaughey does specify that it is Petersons vulnerability and humility in his more recent self-help work that inspired him.

That work does sway between far-right radicalization and more centristic views, but the general theme is that men and women the only genders that Peterson recognizes would be better off under traditional gender roles and monogamy should be enforced.

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McConaughey and Peterson also defended Louis C.K.

The two havebonded over another controversial figure, which gives us further insight into what has led McConaughey to strike up a friendship with Peterson.

In their conversation, they discuss the harms associated with cancel culture, aphenomenon that both the left and right can probably agree has its flaws.

But McConaughey and Petersonschoice of Louis C.K.as an example of someone wrongfully targetted by political correctness perhaps says more about these men than cancel culture itself.

There's plenty of people who do unseemly things but not but very few of them are as masterful acomedian as Louis C.K., Peterson argues while McConaughey nods along in agreement, So do we want to lose him because hes flawed?

The flaws and unseemly things includeaccusations of sexual misconductthat the comedian himself admitted to.

McConaughey agrees that people must be forgiven and permitted to change.

All noble and fair statements if we werent talking about someone who hascontinued to profit off jokesabout school shootings and sexually harassing women even after he was canceled.

Some of McConaugheys past comments have teetered towards the right.

The actor has become something of a public critic of whathe calls illiberals. In 2017,he urged Hollywoodto embrace Trumps presidency.

In hisconversation with Russel Brand above, he accused the left of trying to condescend, patronize or [be] arrogant towards that other 50 percent.

The comments are somewhat familiar for supporters of progressive politics, but McConaughey seems equally reluctant to side with the right entirely.

In the same conversation, he advocated for aggressive centrism as he sympathized with both the right and left.

And while its hard to critique a rare glimpse of egalitarianism in such divisive times, joining forces with figures like Jordan Peterson tells us more about Matthew McConaugheys politics than he may be willing to let on.

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Whenever Jordan Peterson speaks, controversy seems to follow.

Fallout from a Jan. 30 Sunday Times article on the Toronto author and academic has led to the indefinite postponement of at least some interviews, including with the Star, for his upcoming book Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, which is set to release on March 2.

The book is the followup to his wildly popular 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, which was published in 2018.

His publisher, Penguin Random House, cancelled the interview with the Star on Tuesday, after Peterson posted reaction to the Times piece on his website. The publisher did not respond to a request for further comment.

The move comes after a lengthy piece written by journalist Decca Aitkenhead, following a three-hour interview with Peterson and his daughter, Mikhaila, that delved into, among other things, Petersons health issues, issues his daughter describes as like a horror movie.

Following the publication of the piece titled Jordan Peterson on his depression, drug dependency and Russian rehab hell Peterson wrote on his blog that he originally agreed to the interview because he was motivated by a desire not so much to publicize the book as to clear the stage so that the book might be made the central topic of any other interviews I might give around its launch time (instead of issues such as my health).

He has mostly been out of the public eye for the past 18 months or so as hes dealt with his health problems, with Mikhaila posting updates about him and Peterson posting the occasional video on his YouTube channel. More recently, he has begun to venture into the public eye again, including speaking with actor and now author Matthew McConaughey on his podcast.

Aitkenhead begins the piece by saying, I thought this was going to be a normal interview with Jordan Peterson. After speaking with him at length, and with his daughter for even longer, I no longer have any idea what it is. I dont know if this is a story about drug dependency, or doctors, or Peterson family dynamics or a parable about toxic masculinity. Whatever else it is, its very strange.

After the piece came out, Peterson posted on his blog a letter he sent to Sunday Times acquisitions editor Megan Agnew saying: I am frankly stunned by the degree of sheer cruelty and spite manifested by your journalist, Decca Aitkenhead. He also posted an audio recording of the interview, which ran to almost three hours long.

I would have fared no worse had I discussed my affairs with an avowed enemy, Peterson added.

Peterson originally rocketed to public notice over his objection to transgender human rights legislation and his refusal to use preferred pronouns for trans students. He garnered a massive YouTube following and, after the publication of the multinational bestselling 12 Rules For Life, did speaking engagements around the world.

Talking about the health strain Peterson had been under, Aitkenhead asked him what he thinks about the prospect of his upcoming book and all the demands (and opportunities) that entails. He said, Im ambivalent about it. I cant judge the book properly. I didnt write it under optimal circumstances, to say the least. And so Im unsure, I cant tell, I cant make an adequate judgement (sic) of its quality. I know, I believe that my capacity for editing wasnt what it could be. But that was offset to some degree by the fact that I was able to filter what I was writing through the lens of my illness and to eradicate everything that wasnt sustaining for me while I was in such trouble.

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While official interviews set up through his publisher seem to have been cancelled, Peterson did reach out to at least one podcaster who had been friendly to him in the past, The Rubin Report host Dave Rubin, whom he asked via Twitter time to talk again? Your show?

In November 2020, when Penguin Random House Canada first announced it was publishing this second Peterson book, a number of employees went public with their anger, with one employee saying, My company just claims he has conservative views but that he doesnt necessarily agree with these alt-right groups. No matter what his intention is with this book, his supporters still have these beliefs. By publishing this book, youre supporting this and fuelling the fire by giving him a platform.

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Jordan Peterson media interviews are pulled after a piece he calls 'cruel' was published in the Sunday Times - Toronto Star