Peterson, Harris, etc....

[Kinsella]

I'm more confused as to how people watch him and come away from it thinking he's smart.

I think the interest in him and renown that has developed around him is mostly organic.

I haven’t paid that much attention in recent years though…indeed the only time I really read about him these days is via this thread or other online sources containing the same kind of reactions as you see here.

It still amazes me that he was deemed controversial back in the day though. And it always said more (for me at least) about those making the claim than Peterson himself.

 

[nimic]

I love that so many people get wound up by him.

Okay

 

[Kinsella]

Okay

Never loved him or Joe Rogan though.

 

[nimic]

Never loved him or Joe Rogan though.

That's a relief.

 

[Wibble]

word salad nonsense.

Who knew that models aren't the same as the totality of reality? His head will explode when he finds out that models are designed to include the most (actual/likely) important causal factors involved.

 

[Wibble]

I'm fairly sure I know what all of those things mean TBH. Especially in the context of the sort of discussions he is talking about.

 

[Wibble]

 

[maniak]

I haven’t paid that much attention in recent years though

This is a classic.

 

[nimic]

This is a classic.

Also the thread full of people laughing at him, then going "I love that so many people get wound up by him".

 

[Red_toad]

I'm more confused as to how people watch him and come away from it thinking he's smart.

But he is smart. Just because you don’t share his views doesn’t mean he’s not an intellect.

 

[Kinsella]

This is a classic.

A super-classic for this thread surely?

 

[ThierryFabregas]

JP needs a dictionary for Xmas or maybe he can find one if he tidies up his bedroom

 

[Pogue Mahone]

But he is smart. Just because you don’t share his views doesn’t mean he’s not an intellect.

In a way, it is actually impressive for someone who is clearly very well educated and articulate to consistently talk such complete and utter bollox.

 

[2cents]

In a way, it is actually impressive for someone who is clearly very well educated and articulate to consistently talk such complete and utter bollox.

Nothing unusual about academics talking shite, he brings the added spice of being a bit unhinged too.

 

[2mufc0]

 

[Rhyme Animal]

It’s really weird how nearly all the dog whistle right wing snake oil salesmen are extremely overly emotional and squawking left right and centre yet are constantly banging on about ‘hysterical leftists’ etc, and telling the World to ‘man up’ and so on.

While their followers are always telling ‘woke’ liberals to ‘go cry’, ‘woke tears’ etc. Peterson and Trump are beyond menopausal in their hyper emotional yelping.

It’s a proper double think job…

 

[nimic]

Part One: Robert and Cody Watch Jordan B. Peterson's New TV Show

 

[berbatrick]

 

[NotThatSoph]

Inflation is because wokeness.

 

[sebsheep]

Inflation is because wokeness.

It's pretty amazing how he manages to talk rubbish about many different things.

 

[calodo2003]

 

[calodo2003]

 

[Halftrack]

Inflation is because wokeness.

Do we still have people on here who are willing to go to bat for this buzzword generator?

Oh god, now we just need Charles Murray to chime in and we've got the bigot professor trifecta.

 

[nimic]

That tweet he's replying to is the cringiest thing I think I've ever seen another human being write.

 

[Tarrou]

 

[berbatrick]

 

[sebsheep]

How does he know that?

 

[Scandi Red]

One of the better JP impersonations

 

[DJ Jeff]

He's such an anal cnut.

Imagine the issues he'd have with that sentence.

And that band!

 

[berbatrick]

illiterate and a prick. this is a clinical psychologist and self-help guy. hope he gets colon cancer

 

[The Corinthian]

What’s he even trying to say with this one?

 

[nimic]

illiterate and a prick. this is a clinical psychologist and self-help guy. hope he gets colon cancer

Anyone who likes him is a fecking idiot.

 

[Scandi Red]

What’s he even trying to say with this one?

Easy. Get women out of the workplace. Enforce monogamy and the nuclear family. Make church attendance mandatory and abortion illegal. Bring back The Red Scare.

Then everything will be swell.

 

[NotThatSoph]

What’s he even trying to say with this one?

He's comparing trans people to people who self harm, and points out what he sees as a contradiction in how the wokes view the two groups: If you accept trans people's gender identities as valid, and view transitioning as a good thing, then you should also accept that some people identify as someone for who self harm is the right choice and you should view them hurthing themselves as a good thing.

Or something.

 

[Eriku]

I see Peterson is being disciplined and told to go through social media training due to him being unprofessional and bringing his field into disrepute with his tweets.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canad...wcm/3d83e23b-6058-48f8-8c34-d0a103bc843c/amp/

Not sure what to make of this one. I can see why the faculty would be unhappy with the way he’s putting his opinions across, but at the same time I’m not sure it’s enough for them to be threatening to take away his right to practice.

Here’s big Pete’s thoughts on supposedly bringing the field into disrepute:

"I think I've done demonstrably more than any psychologist has ever produced to increase the prestige and trust of the practice of psychology around the world,"

 

[Bobcat]

illiterate and a prick. this is a clinical psychologist and self-help guy. hope he gets colon cancer

Substance abuse will do that to you. Hes a fraud, a hypocrite and a cnut who no one should take seriously

 

[nimic]

Here’s big Pete’s thoughts on supposedly bringing the field into disrepute:

Haha!

 

[NotThatSoph]

He's usually been qualifying his climate denialism a bit, but now with Daily Wire I guess that's not profitable anymore.

 

[calodo2003]

 

[tomaldinho1]

He's usually been qualifying his climate denialism a bit, but now with Daily Wire I guess that's not profitable anymore.

Most annoying thing about him is that he seems to think he's an expert in so many fields of science, he's got one area he's well versed in and yet he's so active in so many others. I remember an article from a biologist ripping apart one of his points on lobsters and their social hierarchies being like humans basically because he'd misunderstood a basic point in the evolutionary tree but if millions of people hear his idea and only a few thousand read the article, you end up with a large weighting of misinformed people.