(September 28, 2018 at 5:51 am)Grandizer Wrote: Never read his book, but have watched several videos of Jordan Peterson, and my overall impression of him based on the stuff he says is that he's overrated and deceptive.
Forget his views on religion. As far as social issues, there's so many things he gets wrong, whether it's about white privilege really being "majority privilege" (South Africa, anyone?), sexism not playing much of a role in gender pay gap, or other views that only serve to foster misogynistic and racist mindsets.
For example, Peterson argues that women don't get into positions of power as much as men because they happen to be more agreeable, on average, than men. Thus, women are less likely to negotiate and compete for higher power and status.
I'll post something on that later. Need to go.
I've seen him argue against a specific article on white privilege. The article claimed that being able to see your race represented in the media a lot is a white privilege, his counterargument was that the majority race is usually represented most in the media.
The article also states that being able to live where you want is a white privilege, and the counterargument to that is that it's actually more important how much money you have rather than what race you are as to where you can live.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
