Nathan Robinson wrote a mocking the guy pretty hard so Jordan P naturally posted a freakout thread about it:
Very critical article by @NathanJRobinson of my work (including Maps of Meaning) in Current Affairs (https://t.co/AVpRVDs43A) is accompanied most hilariously by this ad... pic.twitter.com/4Ly0pdW25S— Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) March 16, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 16 March 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
A mocking post, rather
Nathan J Robinson presumably ready and waiting for the attack dogs
― imago, Friday, 16 March 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link
maybe he becomes a cult figure too, the Adversary
Paoli, Indiana is the middle of nowhere. It's a nice little farm town that has a town center out of Mayberry, mostly known for a place where you can ski (believe it or not). It's about 1/2 way between Bloomington and Louisville. I'd figure it has to be pretty tore up by heroin probably like much of this area of the country.
― earlnash, Friday, 16 March 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
Says one: "I STILL can't find the memes."
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) March 14, 2018
thereby instantly transforming himself into a meme
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Friday, 16 March 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link
― earlnash
however, it's hard to confirm this because of the difficulty of finding anybody who would willingly travel to small-town indiana
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Friday, 16 March 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
I frikkin love Nathan Robinson
― gbx, Saturday, 17 March 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
Yeah, the tweet from JP is hilarious in context. He clearly doesn't know what the book is.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 17 March 2018 00:49 (six years ago) link
my fav part of the article is the list of JP quotes he just starts riffing on
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Saturday, 17 March 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
“There is no being without imperfection.” No shit.
“The future is the place of all potential monsters.” The future is the place for all potential everything.
“People do not care whether or not they succeed; they care about whether or not they fail.” Which is apparently different.
“People aren’t after happiness, they’re after not hurting.” I’m actually after happiness, thanks.
“You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.” Unless you are frightened of leopards, and are subsequently eaten by leopards.
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Saturday, 17 March 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
i totally havent been paying attention to JP, i forgot he was the toronto guy who was acting all shitty over trans ppl wanting to be called by their actual pronouns, hahaahaaaaa of course the alt right loves him
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Saturday, 17 March 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Friday, March 16, 2018 7:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i like indiana...
― flappy bird, Saturday, 17 March 2018 05:18 (six years ago) link
But here I am already giving Peterson’s work a more coherent summary than it actually deserves. And after all, if “many human stories have common moral lessons” was his point, he would have been saying something so obvious that nobody would think to credit it as a novel insight.
This was my takeaway from trying to read Nassim Taleb's book - who is not quite as deeply connected to the alt-right as Peterson but definitely adjacent
― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 17 March 2018 05:40 (six years ago) link
― flappy bird
sorry, i'm an ex-hoosier as of last year, for a while i'll have the same opinions on indiana as a recent ex-catholic has on catholicism
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 17 March 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
exterminate! fake news! MAGA! exterminate! exterminate!
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 17 March 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
That Robinson article, good stuff
― Nhex, Saturday, 17 March 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
There's always a fatal flaw when "white supremacist" and "intellectual leader" comes together. It's like saying you're the lead particle physicist for the local sewage treatment plant. https://t.co/bjWyhI5C1O— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 18, 2018
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 18 March 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
Lol truth. There are no clever racists
― as the crows around me grows (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 March 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
This is a decent article (warning: link takes you to The Intercept)
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 18 March 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
A fun review of JP’s book, with an assist from Shuja Haider:
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-194-fck-12-feat-shuja-haider-and-elon-musk-31818
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 19 March 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
― tsrobodo, Monday, 19 March 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
yeah i find that so dumb. some really smart people are racist.
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Monday, 19 March 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
william d hamilton was a smart guy.
he wrote this
"it seems to me one of the most paradoxical of all the many impacts Judaism has had on the present world that it is the cousins (at least in a broad ethnic sense) of the very people who claim, on the authority of ancient writings, a right to deprive other Middle Easterners of their land and freedom, who generate from among their intellectuals the arguments that convince the rest of us that panhumanism is a worthy ideal and that the course that follows from it is Homo's best hope for the future. A long list of examples could easily be given: I could start, for example, with Karl Popper and his book The Open Society and Its Enemies and I could end with books of Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould. It seems to be particularly these men of Jewish origin (not, however, orthodox followers of the faith as a rule) who seek to persuade us that race differences are non-existent and everyone can mate with everyone in confidence of equally capable children."
some really smart people are racist.
This is true. But professional racists (people who have made their racism the core of their public identity—Richard Spencer, David Duke, et al.) are all dumb as shit.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 19 March 2018 23:23 (six years ago) link
racism is inherently stupid therefore
not that smart/stupid is a binary proposition anyway, but sincerely holding racist beliefs is way up there on the stupidometer
― as the crows around me grows (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 March 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
racism religion is inherently stupid therefore
not that smart/stupid is a binary proposition anyway, but sincerely holding racist religious beliefs is way up there on the stupidometer
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 19 March 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link
Wait what’s happening now
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 19 March 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link
Intelligence has no bearing on how dumb a belief you can hold, b/c beliefs don’t always form that way.
Also being hella intelligent + hella racist = early 20th C support for eugenics and sterilization
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 06:32 (six years ago) link
it's a good article, but I found Peterson's response fairly persuasive:
And you call me a fascist? You sanctimonious prick. If you were in my room at the moment, I'd slap you happily. https://t.co/sC3Lc9Hhlu— Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) March 20, 2018
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 06:54 (six years ago) link
In Peterson's own words, “Toughen up, you weasel.”
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 09:13 (six years ago) link
snowflake triggered
Lobster Boy Is Not Owned pic.twitter.com/PGkMhy0Enp— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) March 20, 2018
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 09:49 (six years ago) link
it’s always the real men who feel the most pain
― maura, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 11:54 (six years ago) link
if only
― ogmor, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link
"I will hit U" is what someone says who knows they've lost the debate.
― zchyrs, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 13:38 (six years ago) link
I don't know what's more incredible: this guy's overall level of gooniness, or that he has the following that he does.
― zchyrs, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
He's not going away, either. The CBC just brought him on last night to weigh in (poorly) on the Ontario provincial election, for some goddamn reason.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 20 March 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
Meantime
lmao Paul Nehlen's campaign is now too anti-Semitic for white supremacists Jared Taylor and American Renaissance pic.twitter.com/bGra5uznoQ— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) March 20, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
Jared Taylor and the American Renaissance: worst bar band ever
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link
Sounds like a tribute band that is doomed to failure tbh.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 13:49 (six years ago) link
their decision to focus exclusively on material from the mccarty-relf era is what really doomed them
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:09 (six years ago) link
getting a lot of enjoyment out of perpetually-weeping, kermit-voiced scarecrow jordan peterson threatening physical violence on social media
what a time to be alive
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
a shame pankaj mishra isn't on twitter to tweet back PUT YOUR HANDS ON THE CAR AND PREPARE TO DIE
― ogmor, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
Great article by Mishra. The historical reflections are especially good.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
lol Grauniad and all, but this from the weekend by Mishra covers a lot of similar ground in entertaining fashionhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/17/the-crisis-in-modern-masculinity
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
its not easy, being greenhaving to spend each day the colour of the leavesand ppl tend to pass you overcos you're not standing out like flashy sparkles in the wateror stars in the sky
― (robot gives Mum a hot dirty slap) (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
the other day, the motherfucking kindle store showed me a J Peterson book in the Recommended For You bar across the bottom of the home page on my paperwhitei'm still mad
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
A very good point about Jordan Peterson's whole "people want to blame the world for their problems" nonsense. pic.twitter.com/7LYxVMnRaU— Bhaskar Sunkara (@sunraysunray) March 19, 2018
perhaps
― j., Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link
yeah idk about that ime ppl will do anything to avoid blaming themselves for anything
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link