Three or Four or Five Things that Doctor Jordan Peterson has got Wrong:

(1) Not really wrong but distasteful (to me), is Peterson's "just folks," affectedly working-class dialect, and his putting a redundant "es" on the end of words like "anyway."  I don't mind his, or his countrymen's, inability to to pronounce the diphthong "ou"--or to pronounce it as anything but a long oo-sound as in "route" or "root"--but I do not hear in this distinctively Canadian phoneme an unpleasant or nauseous or gratuitous implicit reference to socioeconomic class of the sort which makes "anyways" intolerable.

(2)  Doctor Peterson's assertion that he need not automatically respect those whom he meets socially seems to me witlessly contentious and barbaric.  Yes, he must.  Yes, we all must grant one another whom we meet in the peculiar, general circumstance of "society" [where we are all (at least until we know better) upon terms of social and moral equality] the modicum of civility called respect, by which we acknowledge one another as social and moral equals.  A bit circular perhaps, but if you do not understand it, Dr. Peterson, or if you are determined to treat me in any other way than respectfully (with the same respect that I accord you), on meeting me or speaking with me, then I'm obliged to say Fuck You, Dr. Peterson, and if you open your mouth to me, I will slap you.

(3)  Our good doctor's assertion that he never minds offending people, without further qualification, in the interests of his freedom of speech, is irresponsibly sociopathic.  Had he said--when he is certain on his own grounds that he intends no offense, and that there is nothing in what he says, of an invidious or insulting nature, that might reasonably give offense--that then he does not concern himself with those who irrationally and unjustly persist in taking offense: Then we might congratulate him on his stalwart independence of good faith and honor, and agree with him that we owe those who are irrational and unjust no consideration whatsoever.

And, by the way, to speak particularly of those oftenest and most wrongly inclined to take offense at Dr. Peterson's upfront refusal to use "their" pronouns--i.e., of delusional and absurdly exigeant "trans folk" who imagine that they have a right to require other people refer to them and address them in terms of the genders they have chosen for themselves:  No such right exists.  You may not dictate how other people address you or refer to you, so long as they do so with no intent to demean, insult or vilify you.

(4 & 5)  Peterson's ruminations on Polyamory are pathetically shallow, ill-informed and erroneous. Likewise, his opinions about Christianity and its Big Book are worthless, dull and, frankly, stupid.


That said, Peterson's conversations with Camille Paglia (Notice, however, his Canadian Lumpenklass' inability to pronounce "Paglia") are among the most intelligent and worthwhile on YouTube.