- gianni ( @gianni@lemmy.ca ) English138•1 year ago
I’m sharing this article because it changed my perception of Jordan Peterson, and exposed him as intellectually dishonest at best and more likely a fraud artist. Starting with essentially his dissertation. It is a long read but it is incredibly well researched and written:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve
- DaTingGoBrrr ( @DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml ) 36•1 year ago
This video from Some More News really highlights all of Jordans bullshit. It’s long as fuck but I enjoyed every minute of it
- Nelots ( @Nelots@lemm.ee ) English4•1 year ago
I’ve never really cared for his humor, but Some More News videos are always a good watch. I’ll have to watch this one later.
- Serdan ( @Serdan@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
I also watch it despite the “humor” 😅
- pbjamm ( @pbjamm@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Dont look at the time stamp!
- gianni ( @gianni@lemmy.ca ) English2•1 year ago
Wow what a fantastic video. I’m so glad I didn’t check the timecode.
- Kirkkh ( @Kirkkh@lemm.ee ) 14•1 year ago
Really captures his scientism schtick.
- Rentlar ( @Rentlar@lemmy.ca ) 9•1 year ago
It’s a good article. I’ll admit that Jordan Peterson is a good psychologist and knows many words and stories, he can make many people feel smart or dumb through his incantations of nonsense. But that’s it, all the rest of it is bunk.
His essays read like an anthology of writings someone made to finish a book report due tomorrow, after not sleeping for 3 days yet somehow feeling wide awake from the crazed panic.
Also see this screenshot on Firefox Mobile (Est. reading time 63 - 81min). Readers will be well-advised to skim over the copious amount of Jordan Peterson excerpts. Lol.
- fritz ( @fritz@feddit.de ) 4•1 year ago
He is a psychologist not a psychiatrist
- Rentlar ( @Rentlar@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
You’re right, I had it originally but I edited it the wrong way.
- eternal_peril ( @eternal_peril@lemmy.ca ) 5•1 year ago
Here is a good short video
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) 4•1 year ago
Reading 12 Rules for Life recently and I’d agree that Jordan Peterson is not a good writer that he uses too much words for the ideas he’s trying to say. He’s also too religious for my taste. However it’s a exaggeration that “he has almost nothing of value to say”. There are some insights of value if you skim through his words and it appears to me that he genuinely meant good for the advice he gives. I think he just needs a better editor.
- ChrisMcConnell ( @ChrisMcConnell@lemmy.ca ) 1•1 year ago
Admittedly I don’t know much about Jordan Peterson, but if it does that, it wouldn’t change my perception of him at all.
- Lynda ( @LHookham@c.im ) 1•1 year ago
- sndmn ( @sndmn@lemmy.ca ) 70•1 year ago
I think it remains to be seen whether he’s learned anything.
- n2burns ( @n2burns@lemmy.ca ) 45•1 year ago
I’m not sure he’s “learned” anything. Good article otherwise!
- Dienervent ( @Dienervent@kbin.social ) 59•1 year ago
Good article?
The comments that formed the basis of the complaints against Dr. Peterson included comments on a podcast in which he commented on air pollution and child deaths by saying “it’s just poor children…”
This quote is the most disgusting out of context character assassination I’ve seen in a long time.
I got suspicious because while Jordan does say things that women and/or trans people often find deplorable. I know that he’s a strong supporter of the poor (at least in rhetoric) and as a family man I assume of children as well.
The full context can be found on Spotify. Episode #1769 of “The Joe Rogan Experience” start from about 15:30. He’s the one that brings up how 7 million poor children die from indoor particulate pollution. Joe doesn’t believe him and gets a fact check, which eventually leads to Jordan sarcastically saying “Well, it’s just poor children, and the world has too many people on it anyway…”
It’s such an insane mischaracterization of what he said, you can’t take the article seriously. Probably would have to write off the entire website that article is from, honestly.
- Steeve ( @Steeve@lemmy.ca ) 54•1 year ago
I think Jordon Peterson is a giant pile of shit, but you’re being downvoted for calling out a shitty article for misrepresenting obvious sarcasm, and that’s bullshit. Misinformation is misinformation regardless of whether or not it confirms our bias, if the Fediverse community doesn’t want to learn this it has no business pointing at misinformation on other platforms like Reddit.
- nicktron ( @nicktron@kbin.social ) 17•1 year ago
No, he’s being downvoted because he’s adjacently defending JP. If you don’t know how JP is human garbage at this point, and you’re willing to come to articles to defend him, you’re a fan. And therefore, a twat.
Edit: yes the article is BS but that doesn’t change what he’s selling.
- NuPNuA ( @NuPNuA@lemm.ee ) 20•1 year ago
No matter how much of a wanker Peterson is, and I agree he is one. You should always be wary of misinformation. By spreading something so easily disproved because it feels right, you just give him ammunition to argue that people are lying and defaming him when defending himself. The bloke has said tons of stupid stuff worth criticism, focus on them.
- Nelots ( @Nelots@lemm.ee ) English8•1 year ago
What the hell were they supposed to say? Should they have agreed that the article was good just because JP is a PoS? Despite the clear and disgusting BS inside it? Is that really what you want?
Misinformation is misinformation and needs to be cleared up, no matter who the target is.
- Dienervent ( @Dienervent@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
I don’t know how to reach these people or whether they’re reachable at all. Yes, my main motivation by a very long shot was to correct absurd levels of misinformation in a community where I believe most members care about not spreading misinformation.
What worries me is that so many people seem to be living in an echo bubble that’s radicalizing them to hate people they shouldn’t be hating.
So yes, there’s a lot of not so great things about Jordan Peterson. But all things considered he’s not that bad. And I haven’t paid attention closely for the last few years, but I wouldn’t be characterizing him as a piece of shit.
The author of the article is a worse piece of shit than Jordan Peterson. People who seem to take pleasure out of Jordan’s suffering due to his Benzodiazepine addiction are even worse.
But, looking at some of Jordan’s twitter comment, he’s definitely a bit of an asshole. But 95% of people seem to be assholes when they go on twitter.
The only really bad thing about him is his political views. But even there, there seems to be less malice and less self serving talk than most right wingers (other than the apparent or effective grifting). But even the grifting, in my opinion, is not as bad as most people (both on the left and on the right). Still, right wing ideology is a very problematic from a liberal perspective (which is my perspective). But at the same time today’s mainstream and increasingly radical left ideology is also problematic from a liberal perspective. Regardless, I still don’t think that someone’s anti-liberal social views necessarily makes them a piece of shit regardless of if they’re on the left or on the right. But it does make it easy to become one.
- gianni ( @gianni@lemmy.ca ) English27•1 year ago
Please read this: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve
Not only does Jordan Peterson say dumb inflammatory shit, but he’s also apparently an intellectual fraud.
- nicktron ( @nicktron@kbin.social ) 25•1 year ago
He’s a horrible piece of shit regardless of what that article says.
- Dienervent ( @Dienervent@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Maybe, I don’t know. How do you know? You seem so eager to believe lies. How do you know that everything you think you know about Jordan Peterson isn’t all lies?
- gianni ( @gianni@lemmy.ca ) English35•1 year ago
Because he actually says this shit out loud:
- https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1526279181545390083
- https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1628292293173342208
- Peterson suggests “enforced monogamy” as a solution to male isolation
This is only a small fraction of the crap that this guy said with his own mouth/twitter account.
- mrnotoriousman ( @mrnotoriousman@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
Wow total shocker that the dirtbag peterson lovers in this thread have no response to you.
- MentallyExhausted ( @MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com ) English31•1 year ago
Because of the things he says and does? Right wing nut jobs can fuck right off.
- kofe ( @kofe@lemmy.ml ) 10•1 year ago
Because thinking in absolutes isn’t scientific. Is it possible some of the reported are lies? Sure. What do we do with that? Verify. But you’re phrasing the question in a black and white way, awfully reminiscent of petermanston himself. Do you know people wear lipstick for more reasons than signaling sexual arousal, as an example?
- AdmiralShat ( @AdmiralShat@programming.dev ) English2•1 year ago
Why?
- DessertStorms ( @DessertStorms@kbin.social ) 18•1 year ago
he’s a strong supporter of the poor (at least in rhetoric)
“Well, it’s just poor children, and the world has too many people on it anyway…”
Never mind how laughable that first quote is, it is inherently incompatible with the second, since the entire Malthusian myth is based in classist eugenics
https://www.theworldmind.org/home/2021/12/10/the-dangerous-myth-of-overpopulation
https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2019/03/how-racist-myths-built-population-growth-bogey-man/
Imagine still jumping to the defence of this bigoted useless grifter… 🤦♀️😂
- wahming ( @wahming@monyet.cc ) English9•1 year ago
Jordan is an asshole, but misinformation is misinformation. We aren’t trying to become Fox ‘News’ here
My guy, they don’t care and you aren’t going to convince them to care. This isn’t about misinformation. This is about their little civil war they’re gearing up to kick off next year. That’s all they care about because their minds are made up.
- mrnotoriousman ( @mrnotoriousman@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Classic Florida Man
Yep, that’s what they are.
- Ulrich_the_Old ( @Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca ) 40•1 year ago
If we all followed the teachings of jordan peterson we would be living in a world perfectly suited to jordan peterson. I would sooner live in a world which made jordan peterson suicidal.
- Tired8281 ( @Tired8281@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
I’d prefer a world where he learned a trade, and spent his life building affordable housing and never considered teaching anyone anything.
- bloopernova ( @bloopernova@programming.dev ) English24•1 year ago
What is it with those guys and insultingly weak legal arguments?
“I was off duty as a psychologist when I made public statements”.
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) English4•1 year ago
Freedom of speech is between a person and a government, not between a person and a private club they pay yearly dues to be a member of.
The confusion is that in the US the professional organisations are a part of the government. In Canada, the government gives authority to private groups to manage themselves, and they basically get to be in charge of a job title. Jordan Peterson doesn’t practise psychology anymore and hasn’t for nearly a decade.
Yet he’s kept his professional membership going. This way, he can say “As a psychologist, I think [some bullshit about something that has nothing to do with psychology].” This is more than enough for the College to properly reprimand him, as he’s bringing the entire profession into disrepute - but they didn’t even do that, they just asked him to attend a couple courses.
He could always quit the profession. He’d still have all the qualifications and accomplishments, he’d just have to talk about it in the past tense, ie when he was actually relevant.
- some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 0•1 year ago
It pained me to discover that my brother liked one of his books in 2020. I’m very careful to not stress our relationship because he’s otherwise a decent person. I shudder to think what other content he might expose himself to over time and what that will mean for our relationship.
- karlhungus ( @karlhungus@lemmy.ca ) 0•1 year ago
I read one of his books before i knew who he was, and found although the advice was mostly common sense (if a bit context free) advice, followed by long rants about traditional family’s, and backed up by bible. I found myself thinking “what about behaviourism research?”, you know there has been progress in the last 100 years. I’m ashamed that the traditional family shit didn’t tip me off.
I’ve found him come up in my google feeds often too, It’s insidious.
In terms of convincing your brother about how off this guy is, generally there are how to approach things on line (i.e. you can’t always take a logical approach). I’ve also encountered this kind of thing in my extended family, I’ve got distant aunts that likely voted for trump, and they are otherwise decent people (i.e. not racist, and supportive).