Comments on: That Jordan Peterson Is a Crank: A Handy Guide https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/16013 Announcing appearances, publications, and analysis of questions historical, philosophical, and political by author, philosopher, and historian Richard Carrier. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:59:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/16013#comment-40779 Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:59:56 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=16013#comment-40779 In reply to Jeremy.

There are a lot of good YouTube analyses of that disaster. But it does really represent his decline now. He can’t defend anything. Or even explain what it is he wants to defend.

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By: Jeremy https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/16013#comment-40778 Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:30:42 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=16013#comment-40778 The highlight of Peterson’s recent Jubilee debate sums him up rather neatly:

“You’re really quite nothing.”

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By: Islam Hassan https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/16013#comment-39552 Tue, 26 Nov 2024 18:41:27 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=16013#comment-39552 I recently came across this critique of his new book “We Who Wrestle With God” and thought you might be interested:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241120112655/https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/we-who-wrestle-god-perceptions-divine-jordan-peterson-review-cn3hk3bdz

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By: JP https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/16013#comment-39535 Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:30:39 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=16013#comment-39535 In reply to Richard Carrier.

This is so crystal clearly said I don’t know how people still fail to see what Dr. Carrier is saying here.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/16013#comment-37838 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:25:54 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=16013#comment-37838 In reply to Mick jones.

As usual, you have distorted the facts (the Tavistock standards of care were objectively poor; which is why only this clinic is getting this result; and there are a ton more sources here than just “NYT and Guardian” articles, including actual experts on diverse subjects, detailed documentation, and even critics sympathetic to Peterson).

And your logic sucks (one negligent hospital does not equal all hospitals are negligent; “I don’t like the Guardian, therefore all sources that disagree with me are wrong, and I don’t have to address any facts even documented in the Guardian“; and other like travesties of reasoning).

Meanwhile, that being the only example you gave of something I said “unravelling” (even though I never said anything pertaining to this; for example, I did not say there would never be any negligent clinics serving any particular community poorly who therefore need closing or reform; and even though this isolated incident doesn’t even support your generalization), your claim that “many” of the things I said are “unraveling” is typical bullshit from Peterson fans, just as I documented.

You don’t check facts. Your contact with reality is poor. And you suck at rational thought. All you have is feelings—an emotional attachment to an ideology, rather than a commitment to understand reality. Just like Young Earth Creationists and Flat Earthers.

This is a problem. You really need to see to it.

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By: Mick jones https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/16013#comment-37831 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 07:58:54 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=16013#comment-37831 In reply to Richard Carrier.

Turns out Peterson’s predictions on the trans issue regarding sex changes are bang on.

Thousands from the Tavistock clinic and the NHS suing after sex changes. It turns out there wasn’t enough long term evidence to initiate any of these programs. Too late for the thousands of lives ruined by the treatment, but Peterson was the right wing pseudo intellectual who shouldn’t be listened to.

Many of the arguments in your article have unraveled a few years later. Pretty much a copy and paste job of the NYT and Guardian articles on Peterson, who incidentally are distancing themselves from the self indulgence.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/16013#comment-37655 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 19:32:45 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=16013#comment-37655 In reply to Victor Bade.

You must have missed the point of my article. This is not a catalog of Peterson’s political positions. It is a catalog of his crankery and incompetence.

And I did cover his racism in respect to that…

See my entire bit about his “shaking sticks” argument; and the whole section about Nazism; and my digs at his race-position with his dream for a “white man’s paradise,” and “identity” politics that are “exclusively white male or pro-white-male.”

However, if you know of any good debunking videos that specifically address his race baiting and race politics, share them here and if they are indeed good, I’ll paste them in.

Otherwise, if you are looking for articles about racism and white privilege, see my “racism” category (dropdown menu, top right).

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By: Victor Bade https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/16013#comment-37648 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 11:04:09 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=16013#comment-37648 I find it really interesting that Carrier, in this article, while criticizing and lambasting Jordan Peterson for his statements and publicly held positions on issues like feminism, transexuals and religion, he completely avoids and makes no mention whatsoever about Peterson’s most glaringly egregious behavior when it comes to racism and his lies about ‘white privilege’ not existing and his endorsement of racist IQ propaganda. This is a glaring and instructive omission on Carrier’s part. And it is a reflection of the pervasive social reality of America that while every sentiment from anti-Christianity to pro-feminism to pro-LGBT and so on is highly popular and encouraged by the elites in America, the one thing that is widely socially forbidden is any talk that threatens the system of anti-black racism and ‘white’ privilege. This is a rule that virtually every other intellectual and social commentator in America can be observed abiding by.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/16013#comment-30479 Sun, 05 Jul 2020 05:04:31 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=16013#comment-30479 In reply to Nicholas Petrou.

Every single thing you just said is either irrelevant (it addresses nothing I wrote whatsoever) or already refuted by the evidence I cite and thus effects no defense.

That you don’t notice either is disturbing.

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By: James https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/16013#comment-30125 Mon, 25 May 2020 22:30:56 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=16013#comment-30125 I know that I’m late to the party here, but I just wanted to thank you for writing this excellent piece. I’ve been much concerned about the possible proliferation of Peterson’s type of bullshit in the zeitgeist and the danger that it might pose to the freedom and happiness of minorities. It was nice to see a systematic takedown like this.

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