![]() ![]() Yet as time went on, what the ‘renegades’ of the Intellectual Dark Web were really reneging on was their previous commitment to the Left. More from this author The emptiness of the Intellectual Dark Web The campus Left went berserk and Peterson started getting invited onto popular talk shows to rail earnestly against “post-modern Neo-Marxists”. Yet he only truly gained prominence in 2016 following a campus row over pronouns for transgender students. Peterson has been preaching the same material for years. ![]() The IDW’s lodestar is Jordan Peterson, the Canadian clinical psychologist and self-help guru who likes to talk about hierarchies and gender differences while dissecting Left-wing totalitarianism for the YouTube generation. As Brooks writes, the IDW “brand themselves as unclassifiable renegades even as they all share elements of an unmistakable anti-left agenda”. In a context where Donald Trump is the occupant of the White House and neo-liberal capitalism remains dominant (Jeff Bezos is forecast to become the world’s first trillionaire by 2026), the IDW’s cringeworthy posturing as a “persecuted minority” is glib and largely vacuous, in Brooks’s telling. For Brooks, the IDW use a veneer of ‘reason’ and ‘science’ to justify prevailing inequalities. The book’s author is Michael Brooks, an American political YouTuber and a socialist. ![]()
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