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Narendra Modi is also a person who can jail random journalists critical of him (or anyone for that matter) without getting cancelled. In fact, at this point I think he can do anything without getting cancelled. A lot (or most) of that 'popularity' was (is being) built through outright lies, fear, suppression of dissent, polarisation etc.

Jordan Peterson is a charlatan. He is sexist. He is not a typical representative of a psychologist and one should be very wary of recommending him to someone depressed, he can put petrol on their fires [1][2]. I'm Indian and I find him similar in style though very different to the charlatan 'Sadhguru' Jaggi Vasudev. JP spews very poisonous bullshit along with his generic advises. I think the Nathan J Robinson piece about him 'The Intellectual we Deserve' is a good starting point [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25534961

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25533794

[3] https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-d...