Critics upset at Jordan Peterson book blurbs cunningly posing criticism as praise

He seems smart.

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You know, the lobsters didn’t choose to have Peterson inexplicably uphold them as a model for human gender. In fact, I think their biology may have been selectively and misleadingly presented too.

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lobster GIF by Scorpion Dagger

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#NotAllLobsters

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lobsters dancing GIF

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Except in the case, I think it might be #NotAnyLobsters.

Zoidberg

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“More desperate than amusing” — New York Herald Tribune
“He seldom has any point to make except obvious ones” — The Christian Science Monitor
“Mr. Lehrer’s muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste.” — New York Times
“Obvious, jejune, and remarkably unsophisticated.” — London Evening Standard
“Plays the piano acceptably” — The Oakland Tribune

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that reminds me of this from waititi’s new movie

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I remember we found Ian Banks’s first book the Wasp Factory when we were kids in school in a remainder shop with largely disparaging reviews printed on it. A prominent one from the Irish Times calling it sick and perverted. Bought immediately with that kind of grade A recommendation.

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Ranked list of Canadians, alive or dead, from best to worst:

Terry Fox
Tommy Douglas
Frederick Banting
Charles Best
Chris Hadfield
Ryan Reynolds
Mike Myers
James Doohan
William Shatner
Wayne Gretzky
<about 35 million others, including me in there somewhere>

Rex Murphy
Conrad Black (signed up as Canadian again, apparently)
Don Cherry
Pierre Poilievre
Ted Cruz (former Canadian)
Jordan Peterson

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I’m stealing that.

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Should the Ford brothers be somewhere here at the very bottom of the list?

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This is good! Now the book itself contains simple, verifiable misrepresentation that can be easily pointed out! “Even his cover misrepresents the truth!”

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Probably, but it’s not meant to be an exhaustive list. The good end doesn’t have Joni Mitchell or Norman Bethune, for example.

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… and of course nobody ever wants to take responsibility for Gavin McInnes :poop:

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/americas/autumn-peltier-water-protector-first-nations-canada-spc/index.html

who did this:

Enjoy.

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Guy had problems for sure but what a musician.

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Apparently my disinterest in Jordan Peterson is such that I never heard of the lobster connection before. I guess I was living under a rock?

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