Jordan B. Peterson is More Good Than Bad
05/16/2018
Canadian intellectual Jordan B. Peterson is in an interesting position. Much of the Left and the Mainstream Media is convinced he is an Alt-Right figurehead and hate him. Yet criticism of Dr. Peterson can be found on most every Dissident Right website. Take a look at these sharply contrasting headlines:
- Is Jordan Peterson Enabling Jew Hatred?, by Ari Feldman, The Forward, May 11, 2018
- Jordan Peterson is Wrong About the Jewish Question, by Alex Witoslawski, Fash the Nation, March 24, 2018
- F*ck 12, Chapo Trap House, March 18, 2018 [The “12” is in reference to Dr. Peterson’s new book, 12 Rules for Life, as in: F*ck Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules.]
- Jordy Potterson And The Cucks Of Canuckistan, by Emmanuel Spraguer, AltRight.com, March 18, 2018
- 'I’m not a bigot' Meet the U of T prof who refuses to use genderless pronouns, by Carl Off, CBC, October 3, 2016
- Jordan Peterson Goes Full Shill And Counter-Signals White Identity, by Vincent Law, AltRight.com, November 29, 2017
(Note that AltRight.com has now been purged from the internet at the demand of a black lady “Civil Rights lawyer”).
Trendy Leftist websites have dogpiled Peterson in the last few months:
- A Serious Man, by John Ganz and Steven Klein, The Baffler, February 7, 2018
- Jordan Peterson’s Bullshit, by Harrison Fluss, Jacobin Magazine, February, 2018
- Postmodernism Did Not Take Place: On Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life, by Shuja Haider, Viewpoint Magazine, January 23, 2018
In tandem with that, many thoughtful dissidents have begun taking aim at him as well:
- Getting the Culprits Right, by Paul Gottfried, American Thinker, February 8, 2018
- Modern, All Too Modern: Jordan B. Peterson’s Empty Dream, by Wyndham Wright, Thermidor Magazine, February 2018
Dissident Twitter takes potshots at Dr. Peterson with regularity as well. Here’s a fine example from RamZPaul:
I am still curious as to how you square your support of Zionism with your opposition to identity politics.
You won’t answer, of course. And we both know why. https://t.co/RvaqNq1Byr
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) May 13, 2018
It is shocking that so many on the Left seem incapable of perceiving the vast gulf between Dr. Peterson and genuine white nationalists like Greg Johnson of Counter Currents or agent provocateurs like Milo Yiannopoulos. However, those of us with a more identitarian view of the world than Dr. Peterson should not obsess over said gulf.
Dr. Peterson is more good than bad. He is easily the most famous living human to speak frankly and regularly about IQ.
Furthermore, his criticisms of the contemporary spiritual malaise in the West, and its symptoms (depression, atomization, etc.), are a natural bedrock for criticizing multiculturalism, multiracialism, and mass immigration. Dr. Peterson himself never takes his arguments to those obvious conclusions, but many of his listeners/readers will.
There is no need, or benefit, from attacking him for not being a through-and-through identitarian — especially given that he has never claimed to be one, only the screeching Leftist press does. Social Matter put it best: “if someone brings up Jordan Peterson to you, take it as an opportunity to drop some small red pills because if anyone is a gateway drug to reaction in the Current Year, it is JBP.” [This Week In Reaction, by Nick B. Steves and TWiR Staff, February 15, 2018]