*Canadian right-wing pundit Jordan Peterson is facing backlash online after telling MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan he’s “not really brown.”
On Saturday, Hasan delivered a monologue in which he had a direct message for the “white conservative community” following the racist attack in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooter was a 21-year-old white supremacist who killed three Black people at a Dollar General store.
“Tonight, this brown Muslim is asking the white conservative community … get your house in order, crack down on the hate preachers … condemn the right of white supremacist ideology,” Hasan said of the shooting, Daily Dot reports.
“Republican presidential candidates didn’t want to do any soul-searching of self-reflection” the day after the shooting, Hasan said.
His monologue compared anti-Muslim rhetoric to the treatment of conservatives following right-wing racist violence.
You’re not really brown
More like a light tan
Just like “white” peoplePlus you’re a Caucasian
By definition
Buddy https://t.co/xwEDnpe8q1— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) August 28, 2023
Peterson responded by noting that Hasan is actually a white man “by definition.”
“You’re not really brown / More like a light tan / Just like ‘white’ people / Plus you’re a Caucasian / By definition / Buddy,” Peterson posted on X, formally Twitter.
“Nothing to see here, just Jordan Peterson, a white man, telling me I’m not brown, I’m actually white,” Hasan responded to Peterson. “Also, how am I a Caucasian, ‘by definition’?”
“You’re not black/And you’re not Asian/What’s left?/Caucasian/It’s not that difficult,” Peterson replied, Daily Dot reports.
Peterson later posted a citation from Wikipedia which noted the beliefs of anthropologists that the Dravidian people of India were “Caucasoid.” The page explains, “The Caucasian race … is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race.”
As Daily Dot reports, many X users slammed Peterson’s posts, with one person writing, “So…rather than perhaps being a human and joining in condemnation of a racist mass murder he’s splitting hairs about skin color and ethnicity? Weird stuff man,” said @RudeBoyNYK.
“We are at the point where white ppl are leading ppl off a cliff lma,” @Strwbrycough1 added. “This dude is a sensationalist at this point.”
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