I don’t know anything about him…
If you’re curious, try looking up a takedown video from one of your favorite YouTubers. There are many videos about him as he’s a very weird, sad, awful person.
Note: I don’t suggest going down that rabbit hole if you are triggered by transphobia. He basically made a name for himself as the thinking-man’s transphobe.
He’s a “psychologist” psychopath professor from Canada who hates trans people and is beloved by the right wing. Hakim made a few videos on how he sucks. Chapo Traphouse frequently makes fun of him, even centrists and libs kinda find it funny to make fun of him even if they don’t disagree with everything he says. He talks like Kermit and is addicted to xanax. I could go on and on, but I’ll let other comrades talk their shit, basically he’s cringe in every way
Also he literally cries real tears like 3/10 times that the word Marxism or Marxist is brought up, he calls everything woke
He’s an ideological leader of the incel movement at this point, even if he just started by accidentally stumbling into fame and riches by being famously mad about pronouns.
As one of his many radioactive takes, he despises all form of social safety nets and government support of the poor and disadvantaged, yet he also claimed (CW: slavery, sexual violence)
spoiler
that the “cost of civilization” might supposedly require government issued sex slaves to serve incels to placate them enough that they stop shooting up their schools.
Do not Google “Jordan Peterson grandmother dream”. Worst mistake of my life.
What did i just read 😩
You were warned.
Why are humans curious creatures? Why did I feel the natural urge to search this up? I’m traumatized now. Wtf was that?
Why would you do this
Oh hell no.
Attention everyone, we have someone going through their Joker phase.
He is a psychologist and author from Canada. Whether he is good or bad is an opinion and one you should decide based on what you learn about him. He is often labeled as a conservative but like most things it isn’t as black and white as that. He has expressed support for left leaning ideas like universal healthcare, and wealth redistribution and been a critic of ideas like postmodern feminism, white privileg, trans rights, and environmentalism. His Wikipedia page does a good job of explaining his views and the controversies that surround his ideas.
Hope that helps.
Edit: Seems like there are some on here who would prefer OP was told what to think and enjoy living in an echo chamber. I personally hate him and think he has done a lot of harm to society, but I believe OP can come to that conclusion on their own with a small amount of research.
Because he fundamentally doesn’t believe in wealth distribution, he believes in private property rights
For that to be a justifiable strategy you need to exist in a context where that creates victory, and we do not. You must create propaganda to counter propaganda, rhetoric that meets rhetoric and the listener where they are, and most people don’t give a shit about rationality or ideological consistency or even factuality.
And some of what you said is blatantly false: he is conservative, and while he might like Canada’s healthcare system he also doesn’t like it, he actively hates wealth redistribution, and what he criticizes and how categorizes him pretty solidly in the fascist camp, and where not fascist then something even weirder (usually just ‘drug-addled’) but no less right-wing.
It’s not an echo chamber if its true. That’s like saying the scientific community is an echo chamber for accepting evolution.
For the libs, if you had an alternative explanation to evolution that was even 80% as valid as evolution, it might be worth considering to refute it or to see if anything might be gained from it.
If your explanation is alien cosmic ray bit flipping, which provides no useful information, then we have every right to dismiss it out of hand.
