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Michelle Obamas When We All Vote is hosting its first-ever Culture of Democracy Summit.

The When We All Vote initiative was launched in 2018 by Obamawith the aim of creating a nonpartisan grassroots movement that changed the culture of voting. Since then, Obama has been integral in lending her celebrity to a number of high profile, culturally transformative events. Through leveraging moments like #ClubQuarantine with DJ D-Nice and The Roots Picnic with The Legendary Roots Crew, she has been able to fulfill her mission of increasing voter registration and closing the race and age gap among voters.

Now the initiative has announced its first-ever Culture of Democracy Summit, looking to extendits influence to the whole of government, partnering with a number of industry leaders to discuss the role different industries play in protecting and strengthening democracy through voter registration, education, mobilization and culture change, a press release reads. The hybrid event will take place in Los Angeles, with virtualprogramming on the first day followed by in-person experiences on the second and third days. Obama, who serves as founder and Co-Chair of When We All Vote will be the keynote speaker.

Co-Chairs Janelle Mone, Kerry Washington, and Liza Koshy will also be in attendance alongside When We All Vote ambassadors Tracee Ellis Ross, Loni Love, and rapper Jeezy. Other speakers include journalist Nikole Hannah Jones, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Common, social justice advocate Alexis McGill Johnson, entertainment journalist Gia Peppers, Campaign Legal Center advocate Gicola Lane, actor Jay Ellis, NBA Players Association President CJ McCollum, WNBA Players Association President Nneka Ogwumike, Co-Chair of the Poor Peoples Campaign Rev. Dr. William Joseph Barber II, Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Magic Johnson, and more.

The event is sponsored by a number of prominent organizations including Airbnb, BET, Live Nation Urban, Lyft, Sony Music Group, MTV, and the MacArthur Foundation. The main goalis to bring together influencers from all types of sectors to elevate the national conversation around protecting and expanding democracy.

The Culture of Democracy Summit is set to take place June 10 through June 13, just in time for the midterm elections. For more information about the event, click here.

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder predicted America could fall into political apartheid thanks to an unjust concentration of power in a Monday interview.

We are in danger of slipping into a what I would call a political apartheid system where a minority of the people in this country will have disproportionate amounts of power and be able to put in place things that are not supported by the majority, Holder said in an interview with Jonathan Capehart on Washington Post Live. Again, the evidence is concrete about this. (RELATED: Brit Hume Calls Out WaPo For Trashing Barr But Giving Wingman Eric Holder A Pass)

Holder, who served in the Obama administration, referenced the Supreme Courts upcoming decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization, in which a leaked draft apparently indicated that the high court could overturn Roe v. Wade.

[T[he minority of the will represented by the majority that was put on the Supreme Court by two presidents who did not win the majority of the vote, because of our Electoral College, will have the ability to foist on the nation a policy with regard to reproductive rights that is not supported by the people of this country, Holder said.

Holder told Capehart that two presidents who lost the popular vote but who secured a majority of votes in the Electoral College appointed justices who would foist on the nation a policy with regard to reproductive rights that is not supported by the people of this country.

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And you see it in a whole range of other issues, Holder added, mentioning criminal justice reform and gun control.

The Supreme Court is also due to issue an opinion regarding New Yorks laws regarding concealed carry licenses after hearing arguments in November 2021.

The House of Representatives voted to hold Holder in contempt of Congress over his failure to produce subpoenaed documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious in 2012, but the Justice Department declined to indict him.

Holder did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation.

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Renowned psychologist Jordan B Petersons 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaoscombines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the surprising revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.

Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street. What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant and vengeful?

Dr. Peterson discusses discipline, responsibility, freedom and adventure, distilling the worlds wisdom into twelve wide-ranging essays, practical and profound.Join those who have already found inspiration and direction in Dr. Petersons teaching. Discover in this book of exceptional power 12 simple yet profound rules for sorting yourself out, setting your house in order, and improving the worldby starting with yourself.

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Jordan Peterson is many things. First and foremost, people will tell you that hes a clinical psychologist who has studied and researched for many years in Canada and the US.

Hes an author, YouTuber, public speaker, personality figure, and is oftentimes used by right-wing political pundits as a resource to wreck the libs.

But above all Jordan Peterson is divisive.

If reactions to hisrecent appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience" proves anything, it's that Peterson knows how to appeal to one audience while irking another.

But, what exactly are the things hes said, and why do people love to hate him, hate to love him, have a lot of respect for, and downright despise this Canadian ex-professor?

Perhaps the very thing that made him wildly famous, Peterson is known for openly criticizing the Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (Bill C-16), an act that would introduce "gender identity and expression" as a prohibited grounds of discrimination.

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During an interview with Channel 4 News, a British public broadcasting service, he elaborated on his point of view and spoke with Cathy Newman about the situation that brought him into the spotlight.

What I said, at the beginning, was that I was not going to cede the linguistic territory to radical leftists regardless of whether or not it was put in law, he told Newman.

Moments later, he mentions that he believes radical leftist ideologues are authoritarian, and that passing a law like that would be an attack on the freedom of someones speech because they are being controlled to say something or otherwise face consequences.

Peterson did notexplainwhether he thinks discrimination against people based onrace, national or ethnic origin or any of the other identities protected by the same Canadian law counts as "freedom of speech." Or why he thinks trans people don't deserve to be protected in the same way.

While many labeled him transphobicfor saying this and compared him to alt-right personalities, he has claimed in this same interview that he respects trans rights to their own pronouns and their gender identity, but simply disagrees with the identity politics that inscribes these rights into law.

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For a clinical psychologist who claims he isnt a politician, he sure loves to talk about political ideologies and philosophies quite often maybe its because thats what everyone wants him to talk about.

Well, on November 3rd, 2017, the University of British Columbia Free Speech Club was hosting an event where Peterson talked about Identity politics and the Marxist lie of white privilege, two things he seems to be very against.

He claims that white privilege, is simply majority privilege. That, since America was founded by white people white people who stole this land from people of colorand that mostly white people inhabit the society, it is built to benefit them merely by necessity.

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He compares this to howbecause China is full of mostly Chinese people, it is built to benefit them.

This view has emblazoned many who argue against the existence of white privilege and disagree with the notion that non-white people are at an inherent disadvantage because of their race.

However, Peterson's view can be criticized for its erasure of hundreds of years of oppression and the establishment of racial and systemic hierarchies that currently exist to this day.

Equally, his explanation for why white privilege exists doesn't negate the need for us to interrogate this system.

White people do make up the majority of the US population but even this is complicated as these number erase the experience of Latino and Hispanic people who are white but do not benefit from white privilege.

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In a conversation with National Post columnist Christie Blatchford, Peterson talks about the #MeToo movement that saw women shining a light on and pushing back against a culture ofsexual abuse and harassment.

You dont want to confuse the action of some of the men with all of the men, he said. Its really important to get that distinction right, and were not getting that distinction right at all.

This brings to mind the popular hashtag that was turned into a meme by those who wanted to mock opposition to the #MeToo movement, #NotAllMen.

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He suggests that, similarly to crime, the only people who are really committing these abuses are a significantly small handful of men, and that because of this movement that seemingly inflates the issue to include all men into the group.

He claims that bills are being signed into law that now prosecutes people based on the consequences of their actions and not the intent of those actions.

Were moving from a legal system where intent matters to a legal system where consequences matter which is really the eradication of the legal system, he explains.

Similar to the issue from before about the pronouns/discrimination bill, Peterson is terrified of a society where his beliefs and everything he does could be scrutinized and actually place him in trouble with the legal system and he has a right to be.

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A totalitarian society is not a free society, and he believes that walking along the path of a Marxist ideology will inevitably lead to a society that controls everything a situation where communism goes wrong.

However, unfortunately for Peterson, these kinds of statements can label him as being sexist and insensitive towards the real struggles and suffering that women go through every day.

Equally, there are already plenty of laws in place that prosecute people for the consequences of their actions rather than their intent manslaughter,criminally negligent homicide, we could go on.

Holding sexual abusers accountable regardless of whether their "intended" to sexually abuse someone is not an entirely new concept.

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Peterson has gone on record several times to talk about his beliefs on climate change, but most recently, he was on the Joe Rogan Experience and talked about how scientists seemingly skew data to make it seem like a much larger problem than it actually is.

During the podcast episode, Peterson equates climate change to everything, claiming that when scientists refer to climate, they mean everything, without ever actually specifying what everything means.

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Thats what bothers me about the climate change types, he starts. Climate is about everything. So okay, but your models arent based on everything. Your models are based on a set number of variables.

He claims that scientists are taking out certain variables from the model that increase the margin for error but also increase the potential for panic and climate apocalypse, as he calls it.

In fact, its already the case that even if the climate models are right, the error bars are so wide by a hundred years out, that well never be able to measure the effects of the changes were making now.

Sticking to the normal guns of never openly taking a real side on any socio-political issue, he doesnt mention whether or not he believes in climate change or how much climate change has been affected by humans.

When asked about whether or not he believed the collective issue of global warming would finally be able to unite the world against one common evil during a college seminar in England, he laughed.

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Instead, he suggests that the issues of climate change have become all too politicized and that the actual data behind climate change is hard to differentiate from anti-capitalistic data that might arise from certain political agendas, therefore it could never unite humans.

Dr. Peterson is nothing if not a good public speaker. He has a very soft-spoken voice and speaks very clearly and eloquently about the subject matter.

The confidence at which he speaks makes it clear to a lot of people that he truly believes that what hes saying is correct, despite a lot of the controversies he deals with are subject to opinion and theory.

Many people agree with the things he says because he says them so well, hes a doctor, and hes widely considered to be an intellectual and respected as someone whos very knowledgeable and says a lot of big words.

Right-wingers love him because they believe he owns the libs, and left-wingers dont like him because of some of the harmful ideologies he teeters on the edge of far-right ideologies despite his many claims of not being this crazy alt-right personality.

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If you hang around intellectuals or academics long enough, one of them will make the joke that they wish they were conservative because there is a lot more money in it.Jordan Peterson is living proof of that.

The Koch Brothers and the Heritage Foundation are eager to fund and promote the brightest minds conservatism has to offer. They intend to use the free market language of the right, there is a high demand for intellectuals who will defend conservative ideas, but there is a very low supply.

So if youre wondering how 55-year-old Canadian psychology professor Jordan B. Peterson became an overnight sensation, going from obscure academic to international bestseller lauded in the New York Times as most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now, you dont have to look much further than that old academic joke.

Jordan Peterson is famous because in the era of the resurgent alt-right, the loose collection of conservatives that align with white supremacists, there are few intellectuals willing to align themselves with the movement. The alt-right is in need of intellectuals to justify their fascist worldview, and Peterson has been ready.

Until 2016, Peterson languished in relative obscurity. He taught at Harvard and then at the University of Toronto after earning a Ph.D. from McGill. In the fall of 2016, he became embroiled in a controversy that would cost him his teaching position, but would ultimately launch him to stardom.

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In Canada, as in America, the rights of transgender people have been a hotly debated issue.

Peterson found himself a viral star after opposing a bill known as C-16, which sought to add gender identity and expression to laws regarding discrimination. Peterson began his now thriving YouTube career with a series of lectures arguing that asking people to refer to others by their preferred gender pronouns infringes on free speech. His stance on this issue led to an interview with Channel 4s Cathy Newman which also went viral (the video currently has nine million views).

Suddenly, Peterson was a star with a platform and an eager audience. His views include an Ayn Randian focus on the individual and masculinity, as well as darker viewpoints including anti-Social Justice Warrior screeds, critiques of feminism, the suggestion that political correctness is the undoing of Western culture, and even the implication that violence against women is okay if the woman deserves it.

If Peterson were to advocate these views outright, without a carefully constructed academic veneer, he would be treated like Richard Spencer or Milo Yiannopoulos. Even more likely, he would be largely barred from the public square. But Peterson cleverly follows the playbook of respectability, cloaking his views in Jungian archetypes, fatherly self-help diatribes, and labored academic language. He lends himself an aura of intellectual seriousness his ideas do not deserve. Beneath all the layers of pretense and respectability, Peterson is making an argument you can find at any bar in America. Its a hard world out there, he argues, so get whats yours.

Prior to this year, Petersons only published book was a tome titled Maps of Meaning. In this text, Peterson relied heavily on Swiss psychologist Carl Jung whose work involved interpreting life through mythic archetypes or deeply rooted characters and symbolic motifs that reappear in art, dreams, myths, and religions.

The primary project of Maps of Meaning was to prove modern culture is natural. By this, he means that the structures of society are in place because of how humans are meant to exist in terms both intellectual myth and evolutionary science. This is an incredibly niche subject, but it isnt hard to see why this would be appealing to conservative defenders of the status quo. His argument boils down to Make Western Civilization Great Again.

In January, Peterson released 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote for Chaos. Several hundred pages slimmer than his earlier work, the book mixes his ideas about masculinity, individualism, and mythic destiny with a self-help style manual for living.

12 Rules breaks up his long academic and philosophical digressions into chapters with titles fitting of a book like The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, like Stand Up Straight with Your Shoulders Back and Be Precise In Your Speech. With this book, Peterson rebranded as a kind of Malcolm Gladwell of the right, boiling down varied, complicated concepts into digestible chunks that support generally accepted ideas that he can then use to bolster his misogynistic, bigoted, reactionary worldview.

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In the book and lectures, Peterson contends that a man should be a dominant figure. It is feminine aspects, Peterson argues, of society that prevent men from self-actualizing. Boys are suffering in the modern world, he cautions his audience. The only way to stop the suffering is to toughen up. He refers to his female critics as rabid harpies.

Taking into account Petersons audience and particular appeal, this approach makes sense. Whether you want to talk about the alt-right, Proud Boys, Pepes, gamers (Peterson counts PewDiePie among his fans), or the economically anxious, there is a mass of young, underemployed white men who chafe at the modern liberal answers society provides. Peterson offers them a role model, a mentor, and even a father figure to look up to and affirm their isolated and often prejudiced worldview.

Understanding Petersons intellectual and cultural project will also help you understand his popular YouTube videos a little better. For example, why does Peterson spend some much time talking about Disney movies? Famously, Petersonlikes to tear into Frozen for being SJW propaganda. Remembering that Peterson is setting out to affirm a more traditional view of masculinity, free of the influence of things like Marxism, postmodernism, leftists, or what many people might call social progress, his anger makes complete sense.

While Peterson has a long list of the forces of modernity he is generally opposed to, writers like Shuja Haider of Viewpoints have pointed out that he declines to engage in direct criticism of the work of the various authors he critiques. Essentially, he rails against modernity without ever really bothering to define it. If he did, he would have to admit he is speaking of things like civil rights and gender equality. This is just one example of the kind of lack of intellectual rigor that led Macleans Tabetha Southey to call Peterson, the stupid mans smart person.

Peterson is careful not to explicitly align himself with fascists. But it isnt a giant intellectual leap from Petersons words to the actions in Charlottesville. How does one toughen up if not through violence? He says he is not of the alt-right, but he has said, If men are pushed too hard to feminize, they will become more and more interested in harsh, fascist political ideology.

Peterson tries to duck out of taking responsibility for the political actions of his followers. One of his 12 Rules is Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world. But everything is especially political when you are positioning yourself as a cultural theorist. As the world develops around us, we are impacted every day by the worlds political realities. We pay rent on that house we have to put in order.

Nathan J. Robinson is the author of perhaps the most thorough dismantling of Petersons intellectual credibility so far. As he concludes his argument, he makes exactly this point:

Peterson speaks to disaffected millennial men, validating their prejudices about feminists and serving as a surrogate father figure. Yet hes offering them terrible advice, because the individual responsibility ethic makes one feel like a failure for failing Millennials struggle in part because of a viciously competitive economy that is crushing them with debt and a lack of opportunityBut if you cant pay your student loans, or your rent, and you cant get a better job, what use is it to tell you that you should adopt a confident lobster-posture?

Here Robinson refers to an anecdote in 12 Rules in which Peterson explains that human males, like lobsters, are subject to a rigid hierarchy of dominator and dominated. While he is welcome to indulge in whatever metaphors he likes, the sad view dominates his work. He may sound smarter than your average fascist, but his wordsare little more than furious, insignificant bluster.

The only thing you can really learn from Jordan Peterson is that while being a conservative academic might be lucrative, it certainly isnt worth it.

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