Peterson has taken a turn and it’s brutal man. I don’t know if it’s reality or not, but it seems to me when his daughter became his ‘manager’ and they developed a ‘brand’ it’s gotten way out of hand. Sad to see how who I once considered pragmatic and motivating become a sort of messianic caricature.
I don’t know, I guess if someone wants to make music all the power to them. Try not to get too bogged down in someone’s creative outputs I guess.
He really hasn't though. His brand initially took off on his belief that enshrining gender identity into the Charter somehow equated to compelled speech and that he was going to be marched off to jail for misgendering people, despite almost every constitutional law expert stating his argument was total nonsense. The guy may be a great psychologist (I honestly have no idea because it's not something I'm an expert in), but his entire brand is built on speaking loudly and confidently on topics he lacks the knowledge or expertise to do so.
speaking loudly and confidently on topics he lacks the knowledge or expertise to do so.
When you have thousands or millions of people that praise and affirm everything you say and do no matter what it is how hard is it to NOT?
Maybe this is the trap that people fall into... Often we ask "what happened to X they seem to have gone off the deep end", maybe it's when someone stops always asking themselves "am I right about this, maybe there's something I'm not considering" and starts asking everyone else around them "am I right about this?" and believing them when a big number says "yes".
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When you have thousands or millions of people that praise and affirm everything you say and do no matter what it is how hard is it to NOT?
Maybe this is the trap that people fall into... Often we ask "what happened to X they seem to have gone off the deep end", maybe it's when someone stops always asking themselves "am I right about this, maybe there's something I'm not considering" and starts asking everyone else around them "am I right about this?" and believing them when a big number says "yes".
And that's sort of the hilarious thing about the entire IDW ecosystem. They were the very thing they railed against (if you believe they were ever sincere). It became this closed feedback loop/echo chamber of dudes patting themselves on the back because they all came from "various" ends of the political spectrum, but refusing to recognize that they were all just repeating the same anti-identity politics/cancel culture rhetoric.
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If Biden had nominated a white male judge with the exact same education and experience, would Peterson also consider him lacking in competence to serve on the Supreme Court? Or is he just a racist POS?
(That's rhetorical, btw. I already know the answer.)
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If Biden had nominated a white male judge with the exact same education and experience, would Peterson also consider him lacking in competence to serve on the Supreme Court? Or is he just a racist POS?
(That's rhetorical, btw. I already know the answer.)
I think you're selling Peterson short here. He's also probably a mysogonist POS.
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Not defending Peterson but it would have been better if Biden didn’t announce in advance his intent to nominate a black woman.
Trump did basically the same thing. A week before he made the nomination he said "I will be putting forth a nominee next week – it will be a woman", and that was before he had made his final decision about who to nominate.
These takes about don't pre-name your candidate do make sense, but they also seem to assume that there is one magic candidate for most jobs that should get it. I'm sure anyone who's done hiring knows that's not the case.
Trump did basically the same thing. A week before he made the nomination he said "I will be putting forth a nominee next week – it will be a woman", and that was before he had made his final decision about who to nominate.
Trump put forward names he was told to put forward by the Federalist Society. An activist political group interested in packing the court provided the names. Trump was just a useful idiot to embrace them and claim them his own.
Jordan Peterson is a god among men. He's done more to help others then 99.9% of people.
Sad people think you need to be an absolute expert in a field to speak on it with excellence.
If you don't like Jordan Peterson then you're a turkey.
