The Jordan Peterson Thread

Like, how tf did this clown get a PhD?

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Thursday, February 3, 2022 12:07 PM (forty-seven minutes ago)

psychology is a grift ;)

The idea of a host of sweaty engineers bent over their phones tweeting to each other about how the artsy guys are lame virgins who can't FUCK like CS majors

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, February 3, 2022 10:45 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

"If Olivia from my math section would only let me show her how I rotate my shape"

There is and always has been less to this clown that meets the eye, despite the best efforts of the nyt et al to search for more

If all else fails he'll always be assured of a warm and respectful welcome at the BBC.

Maybe 60 Minutes.

Simply one of the funniest fucking things I have ever seen pic.twitter.com/u4aEe9gBAF

— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) February 2, 2022

and they said comedy was dead

No that's irony

oh. well everyone agrees that's alive

I was trying to say that irony is dead tbh but I can't really make an unironic case for it.

the maintenance phase episode on belle gibson is well worth a listen
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1411126/9989949-illness-influencer-belle-gibson

(hobbes is one of the hosts and the episode features an interview with gibson on 60 minutes)

my wife was listening to that the other day and it's a very wild grifter tale

The best thing about being a shape rotator is that you have no need for pornography. You can simply mentally rotate Betty Boop upside down so her skirt flips up

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) February 5, 2022

When worlds collide

Guess who pic.twitter.com/783rU9U9YR

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) February 5, 2022

Not Skrillex too!

spent all night swappin benzos

Can a mod please move this thread to ILM? Thx.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1po9pNs8RU

Everyone's got a hustle.

Watch out Leni Riefenstahl, there's a new kid in town.

Triumph of the Weenie

glad he cleared this up

Postmodern NeoMarxists: Ibram X Kendi, Ta-Nahesi-Coates, Robin DiAngelo, Kimberle Crenshaw, bell hooks, Andrea Dworkin, Michel Foucault, Naomi Klein, Catherine McKinnon, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida and, perhaps above all, Michel Foucault. This list is not complete.

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) March 14, 2022

those figures all believed vastly different things

as always the problem with this guy is that he is a dumbass

It was nice when he was just stuck in a benzo coma in Moscow or whatever that disappearing act was.

this is like a list a child would write. "favorite baseball players:" and it's just random players from different eras and his local single-A team and todd bonzalez

In peterson's world the category 'postmodern" is just a heterogeneous pile of ideas he rejects because he finds them threatening.

Michel Foucault, gotta get the papers.

I think he meant to make this list into a poll on ILX.

glad that foucault gets so much ire, you'd think he was passe when i went to grad school in the late 2000s.

this list has some coherence in that you could say it's populated by people who think humans are responsible for creating the status quo, and could therefore change it, instead of believing that the status quo is a law of god.

So weird to see Andrea Dworkin's name on anything in 2022.

she's had a bit of a resurgence afaict

it's a p good reading list

Initially read Kimberle Crenshaw as Matthew Crenshaw--which prob wouldn't even make his Top 50 wackiest claims.

(oops--meant Marshall. Too many Crenshaws!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_McKinnon

like half of those people are in complete disfavor with most Marxists I know

But are they POSTMODERN NEOMARXISTS?

somewhat ironically, MacKinnon—arguably the least fashionable name on that list?—might be the one with the most marxist bona fides, but otherwise yes it's such a tell that he doesn't name Adorno, Althusser, Gramsci, Stuart Hall, any of the Italian autonomists, etc etc but as I said, he is a dumbass / is trying to graft a circa 1994 view of who's hot in academic theory to a list of contemporary anti-racists, also he hates feminists regardless of the details

i wonder if saying someone is a marxist instead of a feminist gets a louder boo from the right wing these days.

this is obviously why the democratic party needs to become proudly marxist

can I use this thread to vent because if I do it on main my mentions will be such a mess? thank you. THIS GUY IS THE DUMBEST FUCKIN CLOWN ALIVE, GOD ALMIGHTY MY CAT IS SMARTER THAN THIS FUCKIN GUY.

correct

and I get like, old friends on FB, dudes I've known since grade school, NICE FUCKIN GUYS with about 2/3 of their politics still in an ok place, nominal progressives and they see one video from this asshole and it's like the hypno-ray grabbed them while their guard was down, "oh you gotta really LISTEN TO WHAT HE HAS TO SAY," no my dude, if it can't survive being restated more succinctly then guess what, it's fucking snake oil, God it's aggravating

Doesn’t this guy stan Nietzsche but he thinks Derrida is an unacceptable threat to Western ideology?

Just so sick of awful people being held up as leaders and their awful thoughts percolating through society as if they're worth anyone's time, it's fucking exhausting.

Has he read a word of any of them except kendi and diangelo?

Nietzsche stanz will jump through every hoop they can find to stan their man, it is a disease

I really wonder, was he always this dumb? His academic book looks baffling but it’s really hard to imagine that the guy on Twitter now could function as a successful university professor/lecturer.

Feel like there’s a decent chance he got Naomi Klein mixed up with Naomi Wolf.

Has he read a word of any of them except kendi and diangelo?

― treeship., Monday, March 14, 2022 5:03 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

exactly this, but we might still be giving him too much credit!

He may have gotten dumber but his main problem so far as I can tell is not staying in his lane