It goes both ways. I've read journal articles written by senior academics where the topic is totally obscured by a totally unrelated blatant ideological obsession with identity politics bordering on unhinged it had so little to do with the subject. One tried to link Apple's Garageband to segregation because they had RnB drum patterns programmed by african americans. Never seemed to even occur to him that maybe there's just more black musicians who play that style, and maybe even a majority of people interested in RnB are non-white too and might actually prefer it anyway, or whatever. Or that a company with a legal department the size of Apple's might have actually looked into the demographics and considered it, especially with everyone so jumpy these days. It's at very list pretty damn sloppy academically to leap to such extreme and inflammatory accusations without so much as a single citation to back it up. This is why it's so insidious. He obviously thought he was being all enlightened and righteous, but really was just lowering the bar to make a stupid comment that had fuck all to do with anything. If you become conditioned to look for it everywhere, you'll find it, even if it's not really there. Then the trouble is, the precedent is set, and next thing you have white supremacists doing the same thing. This shit is really getting old. If it actually helped anyone maybe it would be ok, but all it does is make everything worse, and people get a delusional self-congratulating pat on the back that they did a good dead, instead of doing something actually meaningful. Identity politics is every bit as dangerous as Peterson says, people just aren't hearing it and mistaking it for being mean.