So was JP always this crazy or is this a recent development? I know he was a darling of the "troubled young men"(or may or may not be incels) group and had a weird obsession with lobsters(despite, or maybe because of, the lobster orgies) but I swear he's becomes more unhinged every time I hear from him.
Yes but there's been an change of degree.
He used to have a few interesting ideas and observations... if you could be arsed digging through the waffle and bullshit (although generally not necessary as other academics were also covering the same some of stuff without the shitwaffling).
Eh, some people will believe it, some people will ignore it, the only ones condemning him for it are the sorts to condemn him for other things. Trump told people to drink bleach and it didn't shake his supporter base.
He was always crazy, but the problem is that he's also completely incomprehensible. I don't mean French philosophy incomprehensible, I mean just absolute batshit rambling nonsense. Because of this, I think a lot of people found it easy to ignore a lot of his crazy shit because it would inevitably be hidden in a bunch of hour long anecdotes about childrens films or random experiences he had with his neighbours or inexplicable crying. Unfortunately, he's also kind of a brilliant example of how to manipulate that lecture environment to bore/confuse your audience into submission.
If that's the case then can we not use that to disqualify him from being an "intellectual".
The fact that he deleted it makes me really assume he actually fully believed it. Hard to tell sometimes do these right wing grifters actually believe what they say or if they just say it to rile up the. The thing about just riling up the base is it doesn't matter if it's a proven lie. We're constantly stuck shooting down the same proven lies over and over again. The fact that he deleted it though really tells me he truly fell for the grift himself. JP isn't just a grifter. He's a grifter who's fallen for the grift himself. He's any other racist uncle with poor media literacy who just happens to have a giant platform.
Who cares, feelings just get in the way of the masculine id (dip dogshit*). Stop being a wuss and get in the machine, Peterson! Glug glug glug, suck those tears out!
Peterson effetively stopped being an academic, or even a psychologist, back in 2016 when he publicly blew up with an error-filled complaint about Canadian law on transgenderism, even if it took him a few more years to formally retire.
It's mostly rhetoric and sophistry, obfuscation, misdirection and piss and wind. But he's also very good at it.
Was this before or after he went on Canadian Public access tv in a fedora to talk about women jumping the bones of testosterone filled men?
As far as I can tell from a Google search, Peterson in fedora mode is early- to mid-2000s. Although in finding this, I did come across an article from another academic psychologist who attended some of Peterson's classes back in the day, who commented that he felt Peterson was always looking for more public attention and recognition.
It's sometimes discouraging to see how much we don't "meta-learn", and keep repeating the same horrors on different subjects. But let's also keep in mind that we tend to "learn", at least, and keep repeating the same horrors on different subjects.
Yeah, but the problem is that the current transphobia is being used to loop around back to homophobia. I mean, you'd also think that whole Holocaust thing would've put antisemitism to bed, but nope.
I don't see what the problem is. He's obviously talking about Hollywwod, not Hollywood.
It's the same acronym. He just replaced "other" with "white".
Alternatively, people wanting to inflict horrors are better at learning than those indifferent to other people's problems.
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Eh, it's like the old joke of the politician who wants to increase taxes on everyone below a certain age, that they just happen to be one year older than.Just saw this, Nikki Haley, one of the republican candidate for president (who has no chance of being picked) claim that social security and medicaid are going bankrupt in 10/5 years, therefore something need to be done. Her solution is to cut the program for those that are currently in their 20s, ie not the people who will use those program in 5/10 years... And she's supposed to be one of the non stupid of the pack.Haley wants entitlement program changes for younger people
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is proposing changes to entitlement programs for younger generations, opening the door to potential cuts to Social Security and Medicare if elected.
