Caltrops - Jordan Peterson - Hero or Hate Crime?





	[quote name="Mischief Maker"]His fame started with a flat-out wrong legal analysis of Canadian bill C-16 and when a colleague who was an actual professor of Canadian law (and a woman) corrected him publicly, he stubbornly stuck with his position because it was proving profitable. Here's an excerpt from an article written by another colleague: [quote]Another thing to which I did not give sufficient concern was his teaching. As the undergraduate chair, I read all teaching reviews. His were, for the most part, excellent and included eyebrow-raising comments such as “This course has changed my life.” One student, however, hated the course because he did not like “delivered truths.” Curious, I attended many of Jordan’s lectures to see for myself. Remarkably, the 50 students always showed up at 9 a.m. and were held in rapt attention for an hour. Jordan was a captivating lecturer — electric and eclectic — cherry-picking from neuroscience, mythology, psychology, philosophy, the Bible and popular culture. The class loved him. But, as reported by that one astute student, <B>Jordan presented conjecture as statement of fact.</B> I expressed my concern to him about this a number of times, and each time Jordan agreed. He acknowledged the danger of such practices, but then continued to do it again and again, as if he could not control himself.[/quote] (emphasis added) <A HREF="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/2018/05/25/i-was-jordan-petersons-strongest-supporter-now-i-think-hes-dangerous.html">https://www.thestar.com/opinion/2018/05/25/i-was-jordan-petersons-strongest-supporter-now-i-think-hes-dangerous.html</A> Not only has he peddled bogus legal analysis, he's engaged in pseudoscience, given intellectual cover to transphobia, and right now is openly pandering to the dangerous misogyny of the incel community. But at the same time Peterson has the voice of Kermit the Frog, looks like he'd be knocked over by a stiff breeze, yet constantly physically threatens his critics, especially when he's clearly wrong, a combination that makes him as hilarious as Don Knotts: [twitter id=1011876726962577408] [youtube id=dL3Hrwg3A3w] [youtube id=6kRWIjesSLc] I think he's full of shit and playing to a crowd of suckers, yet he's so funny I can't stop watching![/quote]