# Are any white people defending Peterson?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 17, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-white-people-defending-peterson/698760 "2014-09-17T20:01:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-white-people-defending-peterson/698760/21 "2014-09-18T17:59:10Z")

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Yes, there’s no money and fame to be achieved in being a contrarian in today’s media environment. That’d be insane. The Daily Show played a clip of Hannity, by the way, and he adopted the standard formulation: Peterson was wrong, but corporal punishment is fine.

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**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-white-people-defending-peterson/698760/22 "2014-09-18T20:51:03Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> Yes, there’s no money and fame to be achieved in being a contrarian in today’s media environment. That’d be insane. The Daily Show played a clip of Hannity, by the way, and he adopted the standard formulation: Peterson was wrong, but corporal punishment is fine.

I would say that John Stewart has achieved a lot of money and fame by being a contrarian.

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**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-white-people-defending-peterson/698760/23 "2014-09-18T21:16:27Z")

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> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#):
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> I would say that John Stewart has achieved a lot of money and fame by being a contrarian.

Unless Marley meant Stewart has cornered the market. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-white-people-defending-peterson/698760/24 "2014-09-18T21:19:47Z")

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> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#):
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> I would say that John Stewart has achieved a lot of money and fame by being a contrarian.

I think you could make a pretty good argument for that.

> [@kidchameleon](#):
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> Unless Marley meant Stewart has cornered the market. 🙂

I was saying **jtur88** ’s claim that nobody would dare defend Peterson is crazy. Look around the internet and you’ll find people who insist on being contrarians on every conceivable issue no matter how obscure or awful or crazy. It’s pretty much the same on TV: if 90% of people agree on something, someone will want to market to the other 10%. More than a few people said Ray Rice’s actions might’ve been justified, so why not Adrian Peterson?

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