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Also, why is this on a tech site? Jordan Peterson and his pseudo science do not belong here.

Specifically, he employs a lot of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archetypal_literary_criticis... .

This comment thread [1] is a pretty good indication of why I don't think Jordan Peterson is worth listening to. He has no interest in answering the question he's being asked and instead throws out a single study to defend his position on something. Exactly what I would expect from a random person on the internet. Not what people should expect from someone they consider to be an intellectual.

Self-help author or bullshit artist would be a better description, depending on how strongly you feel about it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8m21kw/i_am_dr_jordan...

Yep. He's pseudo-intellectual. His audience are the alt-right and racists. He hates women, and his end goal is getting us back to the 50s.

I'm about as neutral as it gets when it comes to this guy, but I've seen a ton of these claims and decided to watch his stuff for myself and honestly - No, he's not some anti-female alt-right leader. He spends more time than I think is rational on trying to fit things into an archetypal paradigm but he often pushes a very pro-women viewpoint.

Case and point are his criticisms of feminism as a movement in the past several years where he argues that women are sometimes done a disservice if they choose for themselves to want to focus on family over career.

All in all, I don't love his viewpoints but I have to say I find it rather sickening that people push views about individuals they don't like that aren't supported by reality.

You clearly have not looked hard enough, here is a write up on him:

http://nicemangos.blogspot.ca/2018/01/jordan-peterson-his-st...

There are all of these claims for a reason. He's pseudo-scientific, he's hypocritical, he dangerously misrepresents things he doesn't agree with ideologically (C-16), he cites and uses the work of racists in his lectures and yes, he is anti-women. There is a reason why the alt-right flock to him.

Apparently to “look hard enough” it’s not enough to go directly to the source. You have to read someone else’s interpretation.

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