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Jordan Peterson uses his psychology degree to give false authority to his political musings, to inspire a profit from his fandom of hateful harassers. There are 7 billion people on this Earth and Jordan Peterson is not more worthy of study than the othets.


> There are 7 billion people on this Earth and Jordan Peterson is not more worthy of study than the othets.

How does that bring anything to the table ? I doubt 99% of the population would be as interesting if they gave speeches.

There are only a handful of people knowing their shit and sharing it in public for free. I don't see many people running around saying "Yoh Plato is shit no one should ever listen to him" even if they don't agree with his views.

Did you actually study him, as you seem to imply by making such strong statements ? I don't agree with a lot of his points but I have to admit that he has very interesting things to say about postmodernism, personal meaning, religions, &c. and as far as I know no one else is addressing these issues with that kind of depth in these days.


Well! I agree with some of his thoughts. I came to notice him recently through social media and do not know much about him.

But his identity politics argument and his equality of outcome is very true. In my country I am seeing the consequence of identity politics and groupism. Everyday lot of people being violent and some time it leads to deaths and lynching.

Another thing in my country is some group have certain quotas (equality of outcome) which leads to degraded products and performance and competent people are being ignored which can contribute much better.

Other than that I find some of his interview thought provoking.




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