jonattonyeah Peterson is the Malcolm Gladwell of professors - a fraud who seeks out evidence to back up his opinions rather than using evidence to inform them.
What an odd comparison to make - the point is that Peterson is a professor and a highly successful and respected one at that, who wouldn’t have been cited so often had his work not been informed by the evidence and academic literature. Gladwell is just a journalist.
jonattonyeah He doesn’t think words should have consequences
I honestly have no idea where you’ve got this from? He rather thinks that words are powerful and should be used carefully.
jonattonyeah speaks on climate change as if he has any idea as to what he’s talking about (he doesn’t)
The climate change criticism is a bit of a red herring. Firstly, it’s a tiny amount of what he talks about. It doesn’t feature in his research, his books and his university lectures and he rarely mentions it in other contexts (unless people actually ask him about his views on it, which they sometimes do for whatever reason). It’s like criticising Cristiano Ronaldo for not making enough tackles.
Secondly, hardly anyone really has any idea what they’re talking about on the topic - there can’t be many more disciplines which have been so consistently wrong over the years than climate modelling. We’ve also recently seen how scientists have struggled to accurately model the less complicated topic of virus spread, or actively tweak and manipulate their models to produce the most fear-mongering outcomes. It’s fair to rather question how it is that certain groups do seem so sure of themselves that their doom-laden take on the topic is right, and what kind of agenda and psychological thought processes might be behind that. As an aside, the global figurehead of the climate protection movement didn’t even finish secondary school. Lastly, it’s not as if he’s completely against technological solutions for improving the planet when it makes sense.
jonattonyeah to justify why he, as a straight white dude, belongs at the head of the table
I’m not sure he’s actually said that. Yet ultimately he is at the head of the table, whether you like it or not.
It’s also a bit weird how you keep on talking in disparaging terms about him being a “straight, white dude” - are you not also one yourself?!
jonattonyeah History will remember him as a huckster and a complete weirdo - a footnote alongside Trump, Rogan, and others where we’ll be like, wait, what?
It’s remarkable that you can attempt to criticise someone for speaking about hypothetical future events as if they have any idea what they’re talking about, in the same comment as you can make absurd groundless predictions such as this with such certainty.
