He's just another conservative charlatan peddling reactionary politics, pseudoscience and basic self-help advice to disenfranchised young men. People dislike him because a lot of what he says is blatantly sexist and transphobic, but he and his fans deflect the accusations because the problematic stuff is always carefully hidden behind a smokescreen of plausible deniability.
He's just another conservative charlatan peddling reactionary politics, pseudoscience and basic self-help advice to disenfranchised young men. People dislike him because a lot of what he says is blatantly sexist and transphobic, but he and his fans deflect the accusations because the problematic stuff is always carefully hidden behind a smokescreen of plausible deniability.
Here's a decent summary of what he's about: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/how-dangerous-is-jordan-b-peterson-the-rightwing-professor-who-hit-a-hornets-nest
And here's an interesting article offering alternatives to those who are taken in by his self-help messages but are sceptical about his politics
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/12/dear-lobsters-there-is-a-better-way