At least in Canada, he has been getting a ridiculous amount of mainstream media coverage for years at this point. The National Post opinion pages were practically functioning as his cheerleading squad for a while. P sure it would be easier than it was for teenage boys to hear about Chomsky in the 90s. xp
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
last night I was in a coffee shop and the girl next to me was watching many Jordan Peterson videos. I was confused
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
Adverts for his book are all over the fucking London Underground
― imago, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
Prepping for a blind date?
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
The apparently authentic enthusiasm for JP among young people--as well as its magnitude and reach--might be the most distressing thing for me since Trump was elected. If the kids aren't alright, I'm running out of things to feel optimistic about
― Dan I., Monday, 12 March 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
My preferred response when encountering such: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ab9df7b8-db3b-4772-982f-bdf8e9e5c90e
― Moo Vaughn, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
gonna hope coffee shop girl was watching jp vids as part of a 'know your enemy' manouevre
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
quick survey of the youth in my experience is that v v few are paying attention to JP but every one of them will start a band
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
i just pray every day that none of my students tries to drop some jp ~noledge~ on me
― j., Monday, 12 March 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
jp's stupid fucking voice has ruined 'the rainbow connection' forevermore and for that along he should be dropped down a well
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
er, that alone
Wait, that's truly the same guy?? I just thought it was some self-help guru with the same name! The quotes they excerpt are more feel good facebook meme than alt right screed.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
xxp don't let him ruin kermit (a prince)
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
the title of the video I saw was something like "Why Men Are Going Their Own Way" (it wasn't worded that way but it definitely had the same sentiment) so I sure hope so
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
oh good that's just a fleetwood mac cover and lyric video, JP sitting in his bedroom studio behind a pop shield crying about someone he met on match.com that called him a dildo while he was eating noodles
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Monday, 12 March 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
dildos are more useful than jordan peterson
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 12 March 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
The quotes they excerpt are more feel good facebook meme than alt right screed.
I think combining these different sides is part of the reason for his popularity. He has credibility for many young men as a source of life advice because they see him as being on the right side of the culture war against feminists and trans people.
Meanwhile, some who are leery of the alt-right see at least something compelling in what he says about psychology, mythology, archetypes, etc., and so they go to bat for him in trying to disentangle it all.
― jmm, Monday, 12 March 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
otm esp on that second point
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 March 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, March 12, 2018 12:13 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
facts
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Monday, 12 March 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
xxp so he's like rupi kaur
― j., Monday, 12 March 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
rupi kaur for edgelord shitposters
this kind of ties back into the whole anti-psychiatry and anti-medication element of it: therapists may be bad, but jordan peterson isn't
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 12 March 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
yikes.
― Nhex, Monday, 12 March 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html
this sorta seems relevant
― gbx, Monday, 12 March 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
White does mention a fondness for the controversial author and YouTube philosopher Jordan Peterson, though he's apparently only seen him talking about religion. "He's got more intelligence in his brain than his body can handle," he says. Later, I mention the anti-feminist, anti-political-correctness screeds for which Peterson is also known. "I didn't know about that," White says. "Maybe we should drop that whole thing now!"
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/jack-white-cover-story-new-album-white-stripes-w517705
― maura, Monday, 12 March 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
rmde
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Monday, 12 March 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
thats the funniest shit ive seen in a minute
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 12 March 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
jesus goddamn christ
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Monday, 12 March 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
tomato, tomato, potato, fascism, let's call the whole thing off
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 12 March 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
Here’s something:
https://m.mic.com/articles/188397/richard-spencer-suspending-the-rest-of-his-college-tour-because-antifa-is-winning#.PGriurKlx
He been r-u-n-n-o-f-t!
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 12 March 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
That’s where I live and work; I was out of town last week but followed along on Twitter. Some small number of nazis met up with 500+ protestors, only about 10 people made it into his talk and like half of those were journalists. And all this happened on the first day of spring break in a cow barn in the middle of nowhere. His meeting / conference scheduled for the previous day in the Detroit burbs never happened as the venues cancelled when they figured out who had made the reservations, antifa folks were tailing them around and hassling them while they were awaiting directions and one Nazi got arrested for pulling a gun on someone. Was kind of bummed about moving back to Michigan last year but pleased if this is the thing that shuts down this aspect of his bullshit.
― joygoat, Monday, 12 March 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/white-nationalist-matt-heimbach-arrested-domestic-violence-charges
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
God, Jordan Peterson has come to Denmark. His podcast is apparently popular.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link
The Heimbach story is something else.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
ohohoho what that TPM story doesn't say is
Matt Heimbach, leader of the neo-nazi Traditionalist Worker Party, was arrested after police say he assaulted his wife, Brooke. Brooke's father-in-law, Matt Parrott, discovered Heimbach having an affair with his wife, Jessica Parrott, before the incident. https://t.co/88UBEh2FXg— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) March 14, 2018
Matt Parrott was also Heimbach's second-in-command in the Traditionalist Worker Party, acting as a media spokesman and systems administrator. He has since taken the neo-nazi group's website, which he had been running, offline. https://t.co/88UBEh2FXg pic.twitter.com/kAh8YWWRbh— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) March 14, 2018
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 03:34 (six years ago) link
Cucks, all?
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 04:08 (six years ago) link
Whomst is the check?
Wasn't this the guy who got a tongue-bath profile in the New York Times earlier this year?
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 11:49 (six years ago) link
heimbach actually has a lot of times mentions! https://www.google.com/search?q=heimbach+nyt&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS692US692&oq=heimbach+nyt&aqs=chrome..69i57.5166j0j9&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
― maura, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
who supremes the supremacists
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
ok how the fuck is Jessica Parrot a real name?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
https://s1.thcdn.com/productimg/960/960/11539264-7294512067807017.jpg
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
The arrest followed a bizarre sequence of events stemming from an extramarital affair Heimbach was conducting with his wife’s step-mother-in-law, according to the police report.
The white nationalist leader is married to the step-daughter of Matt Parrott, the Traditionalist Worker Party’s chief spokesman. Per the police report, Heimbach attacked both Parrott and his own wife, Brooke Heimbach, after the pair confronted Matthew Heimbach about an affair he was carrying out with Matt Parrott’s wife, Jessica.
The group all live in the same trailer park compound in rural Paoli, Indiana, where the Traditionalist Worker Party is based. In statements to the police, all four listed their professions as “white nationalists.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/matthew-heimbach-police-report-domestic-battery-affair
― maura, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
better days https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/us/alt-right-national-socialist-movement-white-supremacy.html
that poor kid
― maura, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
Thread on the possible evolution of alt-right/fash groups in the wake of recent failures:
I hope I’m not boring anyone with this Generation Identity nonsense, I believe it’s coming our way, and regardless of its impact we should study the games crypto-fascist movements play. https://t.co/cVoR1ewIJY— zerf 🐑🐑🐑 herder (@hfricken) March 12, 2018
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 15 March 2018 00:09 (six years ago) link
― gbx
i installed a plugin to keep youtube from recommending videos to me years ago. it kept recommending me white supremacist videos whenever i would watch classical music videos or video game speedruns.
i think the world would be well-served if governments would install a plugin to keep youtube from recommending videos to their citizens.
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Thursday, 15 March 2018 00:18 (six years ago) link
i know that's proto-fascist of me but i am just so fed up today with human beings' utter inability to think critically that i'm trying to have all ideas banned. (yesterday i was trying to have time outlawed.)
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Thursday, 15 March 2018 00:20 (six years ago) link
it kept recommending me white supremacist videos whenever i would watch classical music videos or video game speedruns.
lmao what else were you watching
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 March 2018 04:30 (six years ago) link
trenchant commentary bait if ever there was
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 15 March 2018 04:34 (six years ago) link
One way to get those into your recommended feed is to watch videos debunking/calling to action against white nationalism. This happened to me with MRAs - watch a couple of videos by feminist YouTubers and suddenly your recommendation feed is nothing but "this man DEMOLISHES feminism with flawless logic".
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 15 March 2018 09:09 (six years ago) link