Jordan Peterson: the stupid man's smart person

Some excerpts from this article giving some perspective on Peterson and his fans.

"There is no polite way to put this [...so] I’m just going to say it: Spend half an hour on his website, sit through a few of his interminable videos, and you realize that what he has going for him [...] is that Jordan Peterson is the stupid man’s smart person."

"It’s easy to assume Peterson is deserving of respect. A lot of what he says sounds, on the surface, like serious thought. It’s easy to laugh at him: after all, most of what he says is, after fifteen seconds’ consideration, completely inane. But in between his long rambling pseudo-academic takes on common self-help advice and his weird fixation on Disney movies, is a dreadfully serious message.

"What he’s telling you is that certain people—most of them women and minorities—are trying to destroy not only our freedom to spite nonbinary university students for kicks, but all of Western civilization and the idea of objective truth itself. He’s telling you that when someone tells you racism is still a problem and that something should be done about it, they are, at best, a dupe and, at worst, part of a Marxist conspiracy to destroy your way of life."