peterson seems to be coming back with a slight rebranding as this angry indignant dude, which i guess he always was, but like he just seems SO bitter lately it's insane. dude needs to drink a glass of water or something.
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peterson seems to be coming back with a slight rebranding as this angry indignant dude, which i guess he always was, but like he just seems SO bitter lately it's insane. dude needs to drink a glass of water or something.
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His original branding was as a calm and rational man who, when his rights were being infringed upon, would become indignant and exude a controlled anger, a true terror to be reckoned with. No one seemed to care that he was going full Primordial Dragon of Chaos over being asked to stop misgendering his students. Like you’d watch his lectures and he was this “thoughtful intellectual” who really cared about what he was saying. It’s hard to argue that he’s not a skilled orator. But then the video of him speaking to counterprotesters in that way that cis men get when they want to express anger and show strength but not be labeled as emotional or out control.
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I’m not saying he’s a good, logical lecturer with well-reasoned arguments. I’m saying his lectures are very affective. I find the same to be true of a lot of preachers. There’s a reason people like him and it’s not because his arguments are just really profound or something, although it probably feels like they are, which is the point
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Gotta be honest I have no watched anything of his since like 2016 so I’ll defer to you on this lol
i remember seeing him on the australian 'political' panel show q&a, which is mostly major party politicians shouting at each other, the television manifestation of that chomsky quote about encouraging loud and vigorous debate within a very narrow spectrum. it was a real insight into the guy
he had two main counterlocutors - one who fit the stereotype of the sjw at the time (i think it was van badham), who went with the loud and angry lib outrage approach and played completely into his hands, his whole schtick was that he was good at playing the calm, rational, logical, professorial male against the shrill sjw feeeemoids who only run on emotion and get loud and angry when they cant counter his facts and logic, and the sleight of hand is that amongst all this theatre you dont notice that everything hes saying in his calm authoritative tone is complete nonsense. she was right on what she was saying but i guarantee she absolutely lost the debate in the eyes of 99% of people watching
and the second was some (female) labor party shitkicker of all people, who went with the approach of "oh you poor wounded creature, see what awful things the patriarchy is doing to our poor men and boys that they end up as sad little angry men like this, tell me about who hurt you" and it absolutely flummoxed him and got him completely riled up, it was really funny to see the calm rational facade fly off and scared angry kermit emerge just by someone refusing to play along