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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
3/5 for style
1/5 for content
Pretty much the usual takedown of Peterson - vitriolic ridicule and condemnation not of what Peterson has actually said, but what the author is sure he really believes. When is a leftist foe of Peterson going to actually step up and debate the guy? Challenge his assertions with reason and empiricism? All we get are these smirking diatribes that are devoid of substantive criticism.
Or has genuine intellectual debate fallen out of fashion altogether in these febrile times?
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The audience for an attack on the underlying assumptions of Petersons claims isn't very large and would not influence the Peterson followers at all. And likely does not entertain Peterson critics either. The problem with Peterson is more or less the appeal to natural fallacy. Without evidence or cherry picked evidence there is an underlying assumption that things used to be better and the way things were done historically was the correct way do to reasons. His work is like the Paleo diet.
So the article you would have to right and the level of accuracy you would have to right to avoid a the simpletons who follow him from latching on to stray words and the likely non-response from Peterson to a well reasoned attack leads to now reason to do it.
Peterson enjoys raising the lefts ire and responds when he gets it. It's how he keeps the Patreon money rolling in. The left plays right into his hand because that is what social media incentivizes. So you will never see the well reasoned logical takedown of Peterson because the work required is high, the audience who needs to here it won't listen, and the audience of the authors that do it prefer sensationalism.