re: Where does this board stand on Jordan Peterson?

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This is where I agree with Fox. Peterson is brilliant. He's smart enough to understand that, if Kavanaugh stepped down or withdrew, it would incentivize those on the left to repeat the same smears every time a conservative was up for election or nomination. And yet he still supported Kavanaugh's withdrawal.

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yeah it also flies in the face of a lot of what he teaches people

he's often concerned with "saying something stupid" and in turn, often does (on the opposite pole)

peak JP is his lectures that are all over youtube before he really cashed in. Fox's comments about being a hustler are largely correct these days

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Like if his daughter eats anything other than beef she gets depressed and can’t function for a month?

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That's not because of the beef. She has an issue and the all beef, salt and water helps curb it. It may be a placebo effect, but placebo effects are effective in some cases.

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He's 100% right on feminism and gender issues. He's 100% right on academia and free speech. Let's not shut someone down because he has a weird diet and he had a different opinion on Kavanaugh.

We need more Jordan Petersons and less celebrity worship. He is making inroads with millennials and conservatives need that.

Don't be like my brother, who when my niece brought home a really nice guy who was a student in medical school at UAB, came from a good family - told my niece he wouldn't fit in to the family because he didn't like to hunt and fish.

i don't really follow current JP stuff anymore b/c he's sold out, but man the online groups that HATE P are amazing

i completely relate b/c i used to have the same mindset

one big undercurrent is their absolute hatred of simple truths. they equate complexity with truth b/c it makes them feel superior

also, ignoring (to the point of hating) how older value systems can have value today. kind of like complexity, to them, if something isn't novel, it's not worthy. i'm not exactly sure why, but i think it's a combination of secret knowledge and kind of an excitement

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We need more Jordan Petersons and less celebrity worship.

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the problem with JP is that he's become the latter

i mean more power to him. he's a lot better than the last counter culture icon (Milo)

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Didn't he also say that he stayed up for 25 days straight or something?

I take issue with some of Peterson's characterizations of French Postmodern thought, especially Derrida. I'm pretty sure he's never read him, which is disappointing, as Derrida was amazingly meticulous philosopher. Suggesting Deconstruction is responsible for Postmodernity, or even plays a part in it, is to misrepresent both French Postmodernity and Deconstruction. His suggestion that Derrida was "anti-Western" is nonsensical, as Derrida works from Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, and others, all of whom are clearly in the Western tradition. Derrida was more versed in the classics and Enlightenment thinkers than he's given credit for, given his long passages on Plato and Rousseau, the latter of whom takes up a long section of Of Grammatology. Derrida and the Frankfurt School (another group which is barely read, understood, but easily maligned) are easy scapegoats for a series of complex issues that appear in Western philosophical tradition. I don't think Peterson does any service to the truth with his representations of it.

Well said