Thank you for that! I think Peterson should be showered with a lot less attention.
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I can’t figure out if I agree with his seemingly nuanced reasoning, or he’s just a well-educated radical conservative.
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He lacks nuanced reasoning, and he's mis-educated on the topics he's popular for. He's just a regular radical conservative, but with new (unfamiliar) buzzwords.
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He seems nuanced on certain topics, and academically objective when talking about social and mental health issues, but his hang ups on wanting to derail arguments about religion by (re-)defining terms bring that same objectivism into question.
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If you speak on enough topics, your bound to have a somewhat correct opinion of *some* of them, but for the buzzphrases he's known for, "nihilism," "cultural marxism," and his "critiques" of pedagogy, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, etc., he is beyond garbage.
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I don’t disagree, but that seems like it might be too overly dismissive. I mean, he is a trained psychologist, right? I have been curious about his criticism of cultural marxism, though. He seems pretty stuck on that one.
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He doesn't even know what the words mean. I've met really stupid people with degrees. He's famous for being fired from his job. He's not an intellectual. I dismissed him after I heard him speak.
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His favorite word is "post-modernism" because he gets to make up a definition to argue against.
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Well, again, even if I disagree with some of his ideas, just labeling someone dumb seems dangerously dismissive. In the spirit of constructive debate, have you read/seen any rational/intellectual takedowns of his arguments?
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Americans are just easily seduced by shrinks. Peterson is still well-to-do academic, what does he know about those "unmarriageble" blue collar men in america? you have to get married first before you can be a good husband and father.
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He's hardly some out-of-touch Ivy League elitist. He grew up in a small working class town and is a professor at the University of Toronto. Nothing about the man is pretentious, quite the contrary. What specifically do you think he's gotten wrong in his arguments?
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