Karl Marx’s home life was a hot mess. Jordan Peterson can’t keep his room clean. So what?

    • RealJoL ( RealJoL@feddit.de ) 
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      2 years ago

      “What rule you sons of bitches? Were those male breasts or female breasts that were removed? And I am not taking down that tweet, or acknowledging that my tweet violated the Twitter rules. Up yours woke moralists! We’ll see who cancels who!”

      In all seriousness though, Peterson lost the plot long ago. His concept of Post-modern Neomarxism is complete bullshit and at worst reminiscent of" jüdischen Kulturbolschewismus". His schtick is mostly stating obviously true things, like “clean you room”, but then uses these axioms to hint at a larger, more all-encompassing truth that uses far-right rhetoric. But if he’s put on the spot, he’ll just fall back on his obviously true position and ask what’s wrong about them.

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      It doesn’t help that he talks nearly in allegory.

      It’s hard to point at one thing because often what he says is indirect and implied. When you call him out on it, he says “I didn’t say that.”

      Assuming you’re actually interested in his rhetorical techniques and not just a Stan trolling, the podcast “Decoding the Gurus” did a few episodes on him. In the first episode, I’d say they even came down with a positive assessment of him! But they talk about his ability to speak in pseudo-profound bullshit and how it shields him from direct criticism like you’re asking for.