Roquefort Raider , I think you know how much I respect your opinions, based as they inevitably are on reason and erudition.

However, for maybe the first time I can think of, I have to disagree with you re Jordan Peterson.

No need to go into chapter and verse here, because there’s enough by and about Peterson (including the video you imbedded, which I had seen) that’s easily available on-line.

“Look at the outcome and infer the motivation.” Peterson, apparently by way of Jung, offers this statement as the means to try to understand an individual’s actions.

As a teacher, I look at Peterson as someone who uses his position in the front of the classroom as part therapy, part ego trip, the kind of teacher who has let his position go to his head. Anyone who has ever spent time speaking to a group, let alone teaching young people, from the elementary grades to college is, or should be, aware of how easily that position of authority can be abused. He’s well versed in in his version of things, introduces observations with provisos like, “One thing that may have happened, and I don’t know this for sure, but it’s interesting to consider…”

You’re an educator; you don’t get to mix fantasy with fact to prove your points or scratch your itch.

Imagine saying to your students, “One thing that may have happened is that gods from other more advanced planets landed on Earth in ancient times and helped the Egyptians to build the pyramids. Now I don’t know this for sure, but it’s interesting to consider because it goes a long way to explaining many of those ancient carvings that look like spaceships.”

Yeah, it is interesting to consider when you’re reading The Eternals by Jack Kirby, but not when given equal weight with actual science by a science teacher.

That’s just how Peterson interjects an uncited study that demonstrates that “since women have been taking the Pill, their preference for less masculine men is more pronounced, and that (not sure what exactly “that’s antecedent is) and that could easily be one of the things that’s fuelling at least some of the tension that exists now, politically, between men and women.”

I’m no scientist, but even I know these terms are at best squishy. (I’m being kind. (“Less masculine men?” “Since women have started using the pill?” “Political tension”? Yeah, those are easily described, precise parameters…).

And forget the weasel words (“At least some;” “that could easily be;” “may have happened;”), which have no place in a classroom.
At worst -- and Peterson lives here; it’s where he makes all of his big cannonball-style splashes into pop culture – they’re just another part of Peterson’s tired rant about the male threatened by all Jung’s devouring mother in this god-awful culturally Marxist world that the left has given us, full of transgendered people who demand that we refer to them with bizarre pronouns that we just don’t like, dammit, and littered with the damaged psyches of all those Iron Johns who never have been able to fulfill the destinies genetically and culturally pre-ordained to them in primitive times.

This is a man who just happens to be a darling “scholar” of the alt-right, happy to have his picture taken with angry young white men and their Pepe the frog mascot; happy to salt his inane self-help philosophy and political ramblings with the kinds of words that get the alt-right neo-Nazi types in an erotic dither: “cultural Marxists;” “leftists;” “fifth columnists;” happy to repeat the tired saw that academia is uninspiring and conformist, because it is the domain of progressives; happy to rage against political correctness.

Like Trump, whom he resembles in so many ways, Peterson always pleads culpable deniability about his cultlike following. He claims to be unaware of the code words, and the dog-whistles he emits. He says Hitler was evil; yeah, he does sometimes, but he also says that Hitler was only giving the people what they wanted, that he was in following what the German people in their collective unconscious were expressing t him. Yeah, Hitler was bad, but he had this thing about cleanliness that he just took too far. And he was lying – bad Hitler! -- because he really didn’t want to win the war but kill Jews. And he was stupid, because if he had only been a little smarter, he could have done both!

I’ve gone on way too long. Couldn't help going all chapter and verse on this after all.

We’ll have to agree to disagree, mon ami. À chacun son goût, I guess. But I return to his own suggested criterion: “Look at the outcome and infer the motivation.”

The outcome of Peterson’s half-baked Randian anti-feminine, just this side of anti-Semitic “wisdom?” Division, discord, and the enabling of hate.

I’m inferring a far darker motivation, I guess.

The "Party of Law & Order" people.  Brought to you by the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.  

He also said, “No because I don’t think he was involved in crimes but even then, you know, you can make anything a crime under the current laws; if you want to you can blow it way out of proportion you can do a lot of things.”

If only there were an upper house in the Congress that had some input into all those laws.  One that Hatch has been a member of for the last 41 years.  Then he'd have had some say about those pesky laws. 

It's like we live in a live-action Onion article. 

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen sentenced to three years prison

The fake news, made up, Democrat lie FAKE witch hunt investigation keeps turning up witches. Someone was just sentenced to actual prison time for a crime in which the president was identified as an unindicted co-conspirator. This is just the campaign finance stuff, folks. Next season of America is going to have a lot of twists, I think.