Again, these aren’t equivalent, but they need to be juxtaposed to think things through. For me, erring on the side of the bias in (1) seems like a no-brainer given the West’s prevailing cultural tides. I find it hard to imagine a true reckoning, of the suffering being caused by socialism in the contemporary West versus the suffering caused by right-wing ideology, in which the former outweighs the latter. True, we’re in a complex enough situation that a true reckoning is probably a pipe dream, and in commonplace debates, either side of the divide can construct a reckoning which seems to favour their perspective. But Peterson’s contention that leftism is the greater threat seems to rely on a wild exaggeration of the present problems and a dubious estimation of the imminence of the left’s twentieth-century horrors being replayed. Downplaying these horrors only makes the debate worse, but then so does a furious fixation on them.