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Peterson was vilified by people who want to create villians. Because that's how they see the world: with villians. He gave his expert opinion and advice — which everyone was free to ignore. Unlike some people who argue for banning unpopular views.
He argued fairly and rationally, even with those who tried to shape him into a public villian. And now it appears he had some serious problems like we all do. We could all use a little more compassion.
- You're villifying people too.i_monk
- ^ not really. NB wasn't abusive or disparaging.Morning_star
- 'Everyone who isn't on the Peterson train is irrational and oppressive' essentially.i_monk
- Nope. If you want to project that meaning on to what NB has said then that's cool but it seems to me to be an irrational, oppressive interpretation.Morning_star
- I don't think he was a villain, but this is a bit of revisionist history. He deliberately inserted himself into controversial issues to help promote himself.yuekit
- He capitalized on the whole feminist/SJW backlash that happened a few years ago. I mean, he's basically come out and said this himself.yuekit
- That's one way of looking at it. Another way would be that feminist/SJW media thought he would be a pushover and quickly found out he wasn't, then they cried...Morning_star
- ...victim. Have a look at the Cathy Newman/Channel4 car crash. The only thing he seems to have done is stand his ground in the face of a smug media focussed...Morning_star
- ...on taking him down a peg or two.Morning_star
- Yes, Peterson is always the brave hero and everyone he opposes—sorry, who opposes him—is the hateful villain.i_monk
- @i_monk. You can keep chucking shade as much as you like but it's toothless. Let's see some examples of your accusations.Morning_star
- My perception...and I don't think I'm completely off base here...is that he would go on TV and deliberately say vaguely controversial thingsyuekit
- Don't really see Jordan as a villian. Just thought the drugs thing was a weird one. Imagine eating only meat for health reasons, but being fine with opiods?PhanLo
- Then bask in the outrage it would inevitably create from the left. And it was definitely successful for him, as a tactic to build a following and sell books.yuekit
- But he definitely wasn't this innocent old guy who got picked on by mean leftists as some of you seem to be saying. He knew what he was doing for sure :)yuekit
- Yuekit,I agree with that last bit .I don't think he courted outrage like you suggest though. Most of the time all he offered was coherent opposing opinions. ...Morning_star
- ...It was his opponents who generally took offence. Look at the fall out from his opposition to Pronouns use being law.Morning_star
- Cults need demonsGnash
- I specifically did not refer to everyone, instead using the clarifier "some". I'm not creating villains.nb
- Jesus Peterson will not rise from the youtube death, he will stay in Russia drugged by ballsy doctors and eating rat meatSalarrue
- If you believe people have a right to not be offended then you can find fault in what he says.cannonball1978
- Spoken like someone who doesn't regularly have his rights treated like a topic for debate by demagogues.i_monk
- Fuck Jordan Peterson. Peter Joseph says hi.babydick
- i_monk wtf does that even mean. flailing.cannonball1978
- I was made an equal citizen within my life time; I'm not 'offended' when those rights are questioned, I see the implicit threat they can be taken away again.i_monk