He is just repackaging Jung for a modern audience as I understand it. He's a pop-sci grifter but I don't think the ideas are stupid. Same as Black Science Man who doesn't contribute to the field and instead just runs his mouth to lay people.
Peterson deserves his downfall for being a Shapiro shill and all that entails. However I am somewhat sad because with Dawkins being stroked out and Peterson having gone full shilltard there is nobody to pick up the evolutionary psychology mantle. Which is an approach/worldview that makes far more sense to me as a way to study human psychology than baseless oedipal/fruedian nonsense.
You could watch Ed Dutton on Odysee. He's the most genetic determinist man in the world.
Yeah I don't think Peterson would allow Taylor a platform, because I feel Peterson is largely a 90's classical liberal. He's pretty much fine with anything, until you start imposing on others. Their entire philosophies of how Westerm society should function are at odds. Just to begin with.
Plus I feel Peterson would largely agree with Shapiro and Sowell. That African American underperformance is not due to racism or genetics, but culture. You could just hash out in your head how that debate would go.
Jared Taylor is more pro-liberty than Jordan Peterson. He argues for freedom of association. Jordan would actually have to adopt a more authoritarian stance if he wished to disagree with Taylor.
And this is the frustrating thing with someone like Jordan. He will talk all day about the cognitive differences between men and women and why equal opportunity won't lead to equal outcome. On the topic of racial outcomes though, he's conspicuously quiet.
If ever pressed on the issue, he might go for the "
it's culture" angle but if he's feeling a little bit braver he might go for the Sam Harris cop out and say "
there may be differences but we shouldn't talk about it". The only chance we have of knowing is if one of his audience members asks him at an event but then again, the last time someone asked him a hard question he said "
I can't talk about it".
I'd respect Jordan so much more if he would just say:
I believe in God and here's why...
I don't believe in God and here's why...
Men can be women and here's why...
Trannies disgust me and here's why...
Here's my stance on racial differences...
Here's my stance on Jewish infuence...
Even in the Matt Walsh documentary, and this seems to have slipped by a lot of people, he didn't answer the question
What is a woman?.
Instead, everything we get is a fearful, flaccid non-commitment, purposefully obscured by his own claims that the subject matter is too complex or that the terms are too difficult to define, and I'm convinced his awareness that he's intellectually impotent is one of the reasons he always cries.
Jordan, by his own reckoning, is an effeminate man and this is likely the reason why he's more comfortable with works of fiction and dealing with people. Ask about the harder topics and he ruins his undies.