The Jordan Peterson Thread

wasn't there an anti-Elmo gawker post a while back? It was a reasonable argument I thought. Maybe there's something to this Peterson guy.

I have to admit I hate Elmo for talking down to kids, but I dont want to be on Petersens side on that regard ugh.

no I'm not particularly fond of him either but who gives a shit?

Shouldn't Peterson hate everything Jim Henson stands for, anyway? Statist softie multiculturalism.

you'd think so, but peterson's not really about following up on the logical endpoints of his various gripes about pop culture

Peterson seems like he'd identify with Sam the Eagle, solemnly engaged in a long, thankless struggle against the forces of degeneracy

Mark Millar is the same age as me why the fuck do these wankers even have an opinion on Sesame Street?

new board description ..etc.

mark millar is a cretin

well, yeah

even more of a cretin that i’d imagined if he’s on the same page as jordan peterson, too

Ugh, a friend let me know that Peterson is a Simpsons fan:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/De30A80UcAAB8pq.jpg:large

'his thoughtless slut of a mother'

this fuckin' guy

He doesn't even know Uter's name, he's not much of a fan

also: women want to be bullied, amirite ladies

this fuckin' guy

Also pretty sure the bully hierarchy is Kearney > Nelson > Jimbo

Christ he writes like a fucking mediocre undergrad bullshitting his way through a term paper.

I guess this explains all the rage I see directed at cartoon 8 year old Lisa?

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*reschedules other patients, sits down, opens notebook, clicks pen*

So Jordan, tell me why your line of thought went from the elementary school age Lisa Simpson directly to 50 Shades Of Grey.

oh my god he is such a fucking dipshit

The FICTIONAL FUCKING CHARACTER Lisa likes Nelson because she finds out that he has a tender and sensitive side to him, that he's the child of neglect, not because he's brutish. WTF does this have to do with the popularity in the real world of 50 Shades of Grey you dumb fuck? DFKJSDFLKSDJFLKDSJFSDF

women liked to be dominated, an example of this is when Lisa liked Nelson the bully in one episode of the Simpsons. I am a brain genius

Another important character of note is the self-made mogul Hank Scorpio, whose vision has transformed the town in which his company’s headquarters is located into a safe, secure paradise (a paradise only undone by government interference.) The streets are clean, homelessness has been eliminated, and under the benevolent yet firm guidance of Scorpio, Homer flourishes. He earns Scorpio’s respect so much that when he decides to resign (because of Marge’s shrill resistance to domestic ease, Lisa’s weak resistance to allergies, and Bart’s resistance to his perhaps correct diagnosis as a special needs child), Scorpio not only understands but subsequently gifts him with that most masculine of imprimaturs: an NFL team. Most interestingly, the team Homer is handed is the Denver Broncos, a squad which was regarded as the perpetual losers of the league. Homer initially regards the gift as a disappoint but, as history showed and as perhaps Scorpio was whispering to Homer via this franchise: “every loser wins eventually.”

lmao liz

xp christ almighty, talk about missing the point

(a paradise only undone by government interference.)

Love that authoritarianism!

hell yeah our boy is building his international profile

Large Saudi social media account cites "world famous psychologist" Jordan Peterson to justify gender segregation. Peterson is crossing the language barrier, inspiring misogynists the world over. https://t.co/I2I4StcibG

— İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي (@iyad_elbaghdadi) June 9, 2018

“every loser wins eventually.” lol

love to live in a world where adults take this guy Very Seriously

wait the hank scorpio bit is a real quote?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T47opnLyFw

omfg

wait the hank scorpio bit is a real quote?

No! But maybe it’s real in Peterson’s terms...

Obv the simpsons bit that Peterson calls to mind is Albert Brooks’s charlatan who calls Bart “rudiger” and doesn’t realise he’s being owned by an 8-year-old but who still manages to bluff his way to a sizeable following

You see, if Superintendent Chalmers was forced; policed by an authoritarian government, perhaps, into referring to Skinner's disastrous meal as "steamed hams", it would result in a moment of cognitive dissonance so profound that any competent society would demand his immediate resignation from the school system. Furthermore, by asking to see the "aurora borealis",

it's over for JP

How had Jordan Peterson never heard this extremely basic counter argument to his position before pic.twitter.com/gTdLm166Hj

— PeterNorway (@classiclib3ral) June 21, 2018

what a chump

as i just said on twitter in response to that tweet, aside from the fact it’s p embarrassing he’s treated as a celebrity thinker and really we should just let him get back to being angry about the politics on his particular campus, his entire thinking is bamboozled by the civil rights movement.

Not sure it's bambzooled, as such - he just can't admit in public, at this stage, he would have opposed the civil rights movement.

That's true, but one thing I've wondered, do you think he can admit it to himself? Not that it's important, just wondering.

props to Jim Jeffries for scoring the first (long, LONG overdue) clean hit on this asshole on television (that I've seen, anyway)

jim jefferies DESTROYS jordan peterson with pure logic

I mean it should really happen every time he gets interviewed but for some reason his dope-a-dope act trips people up every damn time

On an incredibly long elevator ride this morning, wedged next to a guy with bad posture and loud earbuds listening to, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, a muppet lecture.

you have to watch another six JP videos to understand that MORALLY it's right to make people bake cakes but MORALLY you did wrong by forcing someone to do something

there's no way to pin down a specific ideology across the board because his magic flow charts support whatever point you want to make in the minute. if you contradict yourself later, you are correct now but were still correct then. flawless logic.

i guess that's why jefferies' approach is so successful - don't give him the chance to retreat into circular bullshit, just ask very basic questions about what he allegedly believes and he'll trip himself up in no time

Xpost to Simon - I think Peterson rarely gets destroyed in interviews is cuz he’s often matched with people who are maybe worker bees or not as equipped to argue. It’s like if you have a room full of dumbasses but one guy that’s slightly smarter, by default he’s the idiot king

xpost -- Jeffries' one weird trick is that he treats JBP as an equal, makes him crack up twice (just to reiterate... Jordan Peterson. Laughing.), and *then* asks him very basic questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO9j1SLxEd0

We can all learn so much from this interview.

I hate that it takes his definition of the "pronoun law" at face value

and it basically sides with him w/r/t "political correctness is out of control!!" and also tries to embarrass a local activist with 1/1,000000th JBP's influence so fuck him tbh

no it's true, I forgot to say "xir" once and now i'm in forever jail. in fact I'm posting from there right now

I'm extra salty about this cause I've seen enough of that activist's work to know she is absolutely capable of expressing a nuanced position on the nature of free speech and censorship, but was instead reduced to a cheap punchline