Mori Chu wrote: ↑Sat Feb 12, 2022 5:57 pm
Jordan Peterson makes a living being a right-wing troll. His whole work seems to be about attacking efforts to help people other than straight white males. He can have fun with that, but it isn't my obligation to listen to his garbage and sit here and refute his incorrect talking points.
And yes, the fact that you think Peterson is so brilliant *is* a reflection on you. Peterson is in that conservative pseudo intellectual space with people like Ben Shapiro. If you don't know what you're talking about, they seem educated and well-spoken. But really they're a sign of how little intellect there is left in modern Republicanism and conservatism.
I'll start by saying - again - that I don't love Peterson as he can come across as a little neurotic, especially since his illness in 2018, and he does appear, at times, to be a slightly uncomfortable mouth piece for the right. There's nothing wrong with right leaning views but some of his I just don't like.
But just because I don't agree with someone on something, doesn't mean I can't appreciate their body of work, of which there is a lot - evidenced by his CV - and for which he has been recognised.
CV
- PhD, Clinical Psychology, Magill
- Associate Professor, Harvard
- Professor Emeritus, Toronto U
- Practicing clinical psychologist for over 25 years
Books
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
- Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
- Both were translated into more than 50 languages and the latter sold more than five million copies
Awards / Recognition
- Guest speaker - Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge universities
- Wrote the foreword for the 50th anniversary edition of Solzhenitsyn's 'Gulag Archipelago', arguably the greatest book of the 20th century
So...
"Jordan Peterson makes a living being a right-wing troll"
- is factually incorrect
"His whole work seems to be about attacking efforts to help people other than straight white males"
- it's not about helping straight white males, it's defending society against idiotic wokeism. If you can't believe that wokeism is a thing then that's on you.
"Peterson is in that conservative pseudo intellectual space"
- Peterson was nothing but an academic and practicing psychologist for most of his career, and his books - based on extensive research and experience - are nothing but intellectual insight. So totally not pseudo at all and another factually incorrect statement.
As I said, there's things I don't like about the guy but his insights into life, especially when he explains the use of analytical data to derive those insights, is excellent and the IQ video I posted above was absolutely perfectly suited to the conversation .. that you ruled it out from a position of ignorance is poor.