The Jordan Peterson Thread

astroterfing

lol

_this was before he busted out with the TERC stuff, the C standing for Conservative_

This always confuses me because in Canada his public fame only occurred *as a result* of his transphobia, but tbf I don't expect non-Canadians to be aware of Canadian politics. And of course it's possible even in Canada that people were into him before his Bill C-16 lies went viral (though his podcast began a couple months after he released his videos about the bill & "political correctness").

I'm not trying to bust anyone here; I had to double check the timeline myself. But I'm wary of revisionist narratives like the link posted upthread (not your story hardcore) becoming accepted, because there was never a non-professional-transphobe JP in my version of reality.

the anti-bill c-16 stuff in september 2016 is what gave him the initial boost of popularity, made him a darling of the canadian right, and brought in the funding which he used to really expand his output, which further boosted his profile. he didn't start his podcast until december 2016, a few months after that happened. before that he'd been only making youtube videos, largely covering the courses he taught, nothing really blatantly reactionary in the way that he is now. in april 2016, he only had 5600 youtube subscribers, and his most popular video had 65k views and was on existentialist philosophy, and that was really the extent of his popularity until the anti-bill c-16 stuff. i'm sure relatively early on in the podcast he wasn't anywhere as focused on the reactionary politics and still just focused on his weirdo psych/philosophy stuff

JP healing religious divides as only he can

Lmao pic.twitter.com/Rel2IJpzo1

— ishmael n. daro (@iD4RO) July 14, 2022

lmao indeed

"heaven forbid, a Jew!"

"Shiites, find a Sunni pen pal" is the much funnier line imo

Muslims, clean thine rooms!

Jews, eat a lobster.

Jordan Peterson invites you to join him pic.twitter.com/2vPLvVRFaP

— very tall bart (@TallBart) July 14, 2022

😂

Lol

Look who is at Michaela today! 🥰
⁦@jordanbpeterson⁩ pic.twitter.com/nKJFg0OOtG

— Katharine Birbalsingh (@Miss_Snuffy) September 16, 2022

good that's she stopped pretending her state-sanctioned child abuse has educational aims

just trying to work out what characters these two aging comic-con desperados are supposed to be

Where JBP goes, comedy is sure to follow

Jordan Peterson was so moved by what he was seeing, as our little year 7s zoomed past shouting, ‘Morning Miss! Morning Sir!’, tears fell. ☺️ https://t.co/jSQjNBJjQ6

— Katharine Birbalsingh (@Miss_Snuffy) September 16, 2022

I tweeted two photos of Jordan Peterson visiting Michaela and someone reported me to the police for hate crime and various others have demanded Ofsted inspect us immediately.

The world has gone mad. 🙄

— Katharine Birbalsingh (@Miss_Snuffy) September 16, 2022

Is this person the U.K.'s answer to Michelle Rhee?

just looked up Michelle Rhee and while not great she doesn't sound anywhere near as despicable as Katharine Birbalsingh.

"Someone reported me to the police for hate crime" LOL

GTFO.

That guy’s always crying at literally anything

Ten points from Spliffenpuff.

“Miss Snuffy”

this headline man pic.twitter.com/uAWAw8sKE7

— BORG (@borgposting) September 30, 2022

So what was this?

Book #4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcTH-fEHIE8

https://i.imgur.com/RVCYtiR.png

It is so flabbergasting that anyone takes life advice from this wreck.

“gamify romance”

there's a lot to take issue with but i'm going to start with the ultimate goal of marriage

make the bed.. more than her. it's how you win!

Rule #7 for keeping the spark alive: Absence makes the heart grow fonder. e.g. put yourself in a medically induced coma in a Russian rehab facility. She will love you twice as much when you come home.

This cunt is in Australia and merrily wading into culture wars - invited to Parliament House by right-wing headbangers, trying (and failing) to influence the result of a state election via amplifying transphobic misinformation, now whining about the widespread practice of acknowledging indigenous custodianship of land. There's probably more but I can't face actually looking at his cursed timeline.

In short, it was a much more pleasant world when threatened little babymen like this guy were deprived of the megaphone of Twitter.

His tour is basically the Unfuckable Men of Australia tour

No cause too odious

not interested in this guy making speeches or tweeting, please update the thread when he puts himself in another coma from malnutrition or whatever even more stupid thing he will do next time.

This seems...not great.

Don't mind me, just leaving this one here for posterity. pic.twitter.com/3XyhszKoWw

— Phrost (@Phrost) November 29, 2022

What a despicable asshole

Has climate change denial always been part of his repertoire? Very banal observation but: it's striking how the real grifters in this scene don't really have a coherent politics of any kind

Conservatives in no wanting to conserve anything shocker

So I'm going to guess that it's the WOKE that is somehow making antisemitism a "moral necessity" right?

I have no idea WTF he is talking about in that tweet, and I reckon he does not either.

But I bet he savored saying it.

Is he saying someone else says antisemitism is a moral neccesity? Either that or he welcomes hell? I dont get it.

Yeah, I think he's trying to say "when anti-semitism becomes perceived [e.g. by Kanye] as a moral necessity". I don’t see how the rest makes sense if he’s advocating anti-semitism as a moral necessity.

But whatever, he can defend his dumbass tweet himself

every possible interpretation of that is bad but uh yeah some are a lot worse than others

it's striking how the real grifters in this scene don't really have a coherent politics of any kind

yeah it was really notable watching him operate in Australia, just this series of scattergun interjections on "controversial" topics - ie those that are gonna get him some attention - i guess this guy's core brand for dumbos is "i am just fearlessly talking common sense", which can be tidily mapped onto whatever shitty prejudice he is spruiking and confers the superficial appearance of some kind of consistency

Yeah, I think he's trying to say "when anti-semitism becomes perceived [e.g. by Kanye] as a moral necessity". I don’t see how the rest makes sense if he’s advocating anti-semitism as a moral necessity.

Yeah I'd say that's the canonical interpretation but I think he's also aware that part of his fanbase will take it differently and willing to play into that while maintaining plausible deniability.

I think he is saying that the excesses of liberal society — “wokeness” — have provoked people into antisemitism, in the same way that the “degeneracy” (hitler’s word) of the weimar republic set the stage for nazism. He is saying antisemitism is bad, maybe, but that it isn’t the fault of the antisemites. Liberals made them do it.

It’s almost as bad as being straightforwardly antisemitic honestly. He is playing into the logic of antisemitism.

He's basically saying anti-semitism is the fault of the jews and when hell (i.e. the holocaust or whatever) happens again it will be deserved.

His whole thing has been conservative Christianity for quite some time, which usually tends to come along with certain views that have recently been glossed over by US evangelical support for Israel.