{"id":8741,"date":"2018-06-17T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=8741"},"modified":"2018-11-25T21:37:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T02:37:53","slug":"the-danielle-metz-show-019-the-munk-non-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8741","title":{"rendered":"The Danielle Metz Show – 019 – The Munk-Non-Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Let it be resolved that what you call ‘political correctness’ I call progress.”<\/p>\n

The Munk debate of May 18th<\/strong>, featuring Jordan Peterson<\/strong> and Stephen Fry<\/strong> on \u2018con\u2019 side and Michael Dyson<\/strong> and Michelle Goldberg<\/strong> on ‘pro’ side, barely even touched upon the nature of political correctness.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, though the resolution was not really debated or discussed, the \u2018con\u2019 side of the resolution was certainly very clearly demonstrated.<\/p>\n

In expressing their own frustrations about the tone and substance of the Munk debate, both Robert and Danielle are \u2018certain\u2019 about one thing \u2013 the whole discussion dissolved into a non-debate<\/strong> \u2013 one now seen by well over two million viewers.<\/p>\n

As \u201can example of just how far \u2018intellectual\u2019 debate has fallen,\u201d the racist name-calling and identity politics that constituted the \u2018pro\u2019 side of the resolution should require no further comment.<\/p>\n

But more frustrating than this was the persistent and continual attempt by all four speakers to avoid being labeled \u2018too far\u2019 to the Left or Right. In so doing, they \u2018resolved\u2019 nothing, and ignored the glaring reality that the \u2018extreme right\u2019 being referred to in their discussion is in fact just another manifestation of the Left.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing how much anything that can be described as \u2018Right\u2019 is so avoided by all – even by those who are right.<\/p>\n

Given that no one directly challenged Stephen Fry\u2019s assertion that it is a human failing to \u2018want to be Right\u2019 rather than \u2018effective,\u2019 the Munk debate was very \u2018effectively\u2019 ended before it began.<\/p>\n

Thanks to their mutual fear of \u2018certainty,\u2019 it was not possible for the Munk debaters to have the discussion that should have been Just Right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Let it be resolved that what you call ‘political correctness’ I call progress.” The Munk debate of May 18th, featuring Jordan Peterson and Stephen Fry on \u2018con\u2019 side and Michael Dyson and Michelle Goldberg on ‘pro’ side, barely even touched upon the nature of political correctness. Nevertheless, though the resolution was not really debated or [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,596,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-ideas","category-latest","issues-munk-debate","issues-political-correctness","personalities-jordan-peterson","personalities-michael-dyson","personalities-michelle-goldberg","personalities-stephen-fry","category-12-id","category-596-id","category-28-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8741"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8751,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions\/8751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}