List with links of critiques of Jordan Peterson
Here’s critiques, discussions, controversial and bizarre things exposed by Peterson. I’ll edit and put more critiques when possible. I recommend checking the Longest list of Peterson Critiques on the Internet for a more serious and complete list.
General critiques and philosophical critiques:
(i) Reddit discussions:
July 14, 2017 — Why are Jordan Peterson’s philosophical opinions wrong?;
August 25, 2017 — Who is Jordan Peterson and why are his views erroneous;
October 19, 2017 — How to deal with unproductive gadflies like followers of Stephen Molyneux, Ben Shapiro, and Jordan Peterson?;
January 26, 2018 — Quick and Easy Responses to the Cult of Jordan Peterson;
(iii) Articles, critical essays, etc.:
2000 — A review of Maps of Meaning by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone;
October 24, 2016 — U of T letter asks Jordan Peterson to respect pronouns, stop making statements;
December 1, 2016— ‘We’re teaching university students lies’ — An interview with Dr Jordan Peterson;
January 15, 2017 — He says freedom, they say hate. The pronoun fight is back;
January 25, 2017 — The Pronoun Warrior;
February 16, 2017 — When Transphobia Trumps Statistics;
May 19, 2017 — Refuting Jordan Peterson’s Capitalist Realism;
July 4, 2017 — Controversial U of T professor making nearly $50,000 a month through crowdfunding;
October 8, 2017 — Jordan Peterson: “I don’t think that men can control crazy women”
November 17, 2017 — Is Jordan Peterson the Stupid Man’s Smart Person?;
November 27, 2017 — The Professor of Piffle;
January 11, 2018 — Brenda Cossman provides a scholar criticism of Peterson arguments against Bill C-16;
January 18, 2018 — 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B Peterson review — a self-help book from a culture warrior;
January 23, 2018 — The Map of Meaning Is Not the Territory (Part 1.1: Context-Free Tangents);
January 25, 2018 — The Map of Meaning Is Not the Territory (Part 1.2: William James, Darwin, and God walk into a bar…);
January 27, 2018 — Annals of Derp: Jordan Peterson, Clinical Psychologist;
January 30, 2018 — The Map of Meaning Is Not the Territory (Part 2.1: From Alpha to Beta to Lobster);
January 31, 2018 — The Jordan Peterson paradox: high intellect, or just another angry white guy?;
February 4, 2018 — The Map of Meaning is Not the Territory (Part 2.2: The Nature of Nature, the Universe, and Everything);
February 6, 2018 — Jordan Peterson’s Bullshit;
February 7, 2018 — How dangerous is Jordan B Peterson, the rightwing professor who ‘hit a hornets’ nest’?;
February 7, 2018 — A Serious Man;
February 13, 2018 — The Right’s Favorite New Intellectual Has Some Truly Pitiable Ideas About Masculinity;
February 14, 2018 — Jordan Peterson’s Flimsy Philosophy of Life;
February 17, 2018 — The Map of Meaning Is Not the Territory (Parts 2.3, 3, 4: Pinocchio’s Oedipal Fever Dream);
February 20, 2018 — Jordan Peterson, Social Conservatism and the Application of the Naturalistic Fallacy;
February 20, 2018 — Why Are So Many Young Men Drawn to Jordan Peterson’s Intellectual Misogyny?;
March 2, 2018 — How anti-leftism has made Jordan Peterson a mark for fascist propaganda;
March 5, 2018 — A Christian Critique of Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life Using C.S. Lewis;
March 8, 2018 — A Messiah-cum-Surrogate-Dad for Gormless Dimwits: On Jordan B. Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life”;
March 11, 2018 — The Map of Meaning is Not the Territory (Parts 5–8: The Meta-Map of Meaning is Not the Territory Either);
March 12, 2018 — Jordan Peterson’s Murky Maps of Meaning;
March 14, 2018 — The intellectual we deserve | Current Affairs;
March 19, 2018 — Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism;
March 20, 2018 — Jordan Peterson and the Dragon That is Scientific Explanation;
March 21, 2018 — Jordan Peterson joins the club of macho writers who have thrown a fit over a bad review;
March 23, 2018 — The Story Behind Jordan Peterson’s Indigenous Identity;
March 23, 2018 — Sorry, Jordan Peterson: rage isn’t a great look for a self-help guru;
March 23, 2018 — After misconduct complaint, Jordan Peterson agrees to plan for clinical improvement;
March 26, 2018 — Jordan Peterson, the obscure Canadian psychologist turned right-wing celebrity, explained;
March 29, 2018 — Why Jordan Peterson Is A Charlatan In His Own Words;
April 2, 2018 — So-called ‘intellectuals’ can’t let go of “The Bell Curve”;
April 4, 2018 — Richard Poplak sets Jordan B Peterson’s house in order: a (scorching) review of 12 Rules For Life;
April 4, 2018 — Thus Spoke Jordan Peterson;
April 6, 2018 — Only a Country Like Canada Could Produce a Guy Like Jordan Peterson;
April 9, 2018 — The Map of Meaning Is Not the Territory (Parts 9–12.1: Chasing the Jungian Dragon);
April 10, 2018 — Order, but by Subordination: Jordan Peterson’s Reactionary Mind;
April 14, 2018 — Why does Jordan Peterson resonate with white supremacists?;
April 18, 2018 — The Sophism of Jordan Peterson and Popular Political Discourse;
April 21, 2018 — Argue Like Jordan Peterson;
April 28, 2018 — An Evening With Matt Dillahunty & Jordan Peterson;
April 29, 2018 — Matt Dillahunty on his conversation with Jordan Peterson;
May 2, 2018 — Jordan Peterson | ContraPoints;
May 4, 2018 — Jordan Peterson Doesn’t Understand Nazism;
May 8, 2018 — No, ‘Dark Web Intellectuals’ Like Sam Harris And Jordan Peterson Are Not Being Silenced;
May 9, 2018 — Pretty loud for being so silenced;
May 9, 2018 — The profound sadness of the Jordan Peterson phenomenon;
May 10, 2018 — The Real “Dangerous” Ideas;
May 12, 2018 — Homer and Hatred: On Jordan Peterson’s Mythology;
May 18, 2018 — Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy;
May 18, 2018 — Jordan Peterson’s Crackpot Sex Theories Are Pure Reagonomics;
May 19, 2018 — Jordan Peterson: Anti-Stoic;
May 19, 2018 — My Interview with Jordan Peterson;
May 21, 2018 — Jordan Peterson’s Tired Old Myths;
May 22, 2018 — Current Affairs’ Comparative Mythology Exam;
May 22, 2018 — Jordan Peterson Seems Like a Terrible Therapist;
May 23, 2018 — Reconsider the lobster;
May 25, 2018 — Carl Jung and the Logos (and Jordan Peterson’s Jungianism);
May 31, 2018 — Jordan Peterson Is The New Chief Lobbyist For ‘Nice Guys’ And Incels;
June 3, 2018 — A Critique of Jordan Peterson;
June 4, 2018 — Jordan Peterson, Fully In Context and Incredibly Sexist;
June 4, 2018 — The Fundamental Errors of Jordan Peterson;
June 4, 2018 — Jordan Peterson needs to reconsider the lobster;
June 6, 2018 — Christ on a bike: The strange case of Jordan Peterson;
June 7, 2018 — I Think My Friend Is a Jordan Peterson Fan. What Should I Do?;
June 7, 2018 — Schiff’s Insider Critique of Peterson;
June 12, 2018 — Why We Are So Vulnerable to Charlatans Like Trump;
June 15, 2018 — Free speech champion Jordan Peterson threatens to sue professor over Twitter name calling;
June 16, 2018 — The Map of Meaning Is Not the Territory (Part 12.2, Wrap-up, and Post-Mortem);
July 3, 2018 — Hey Jordan Peterson, suing just makes you look like a hypocrite;
July 12, 2018 — Peterson’s Complaint;
Cultural Marxism, post-modernism neo-marxism, etc.:
2014— Jérôme Jamin discusses Cultural Marxism and the Radical Right;
January 23, 2018 — Postmodernism Did Not Take Place: On Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life;
February 6, 2018 — Cultural Marxism: A survey;
March 15, 2018 — Jordan Peterson, Historian: aide-mémoire;
April 27, 2018 — Jordan Peterson doesn’t understand postmodernism;
May 29, 2018 — Jordan Peterson: The Distortions of an Ideologue;
June 16, 2018— Peterson on the Postmodern Rejection of Logic;
Jungian archetypes:
(i) Reddit discussions:
November 3, 2017 — What is the fascination with Jungian archetypes amongst Jordan Peterson followers?;
(ii) Misc.:
December 22, 2010 — Trouble in Myth-Land: Campbell and Moyers;
Psychological critiques:
February 11, 2018 — Jordan B. Peterson’s support of corporal punishment: a critique;
April 3, 2018 — A critique of Jordan Peterson and the ‘Big Five’;
Biological critiques:
(i) Reddit discussions:
February 9, 2018 — Jordan Peterson doesn’t understand evolution + bonus ancient alients;
June 7, 2018 — PZ Myers debunking Peterson’s makeup claim;
(ii) Articles, critical essays, etc.:
August 19, 2017 — The truth has got its boots on: what the evidence says about Mr. Damore’s Google memo;
January 29, 2018 — Jordan Peterson & the Lobster;
January 31, 2018 — Lobsters are not people;
February 11, 2018 — PZ Replies to the Lobsterians;
Critiques of his interpretation of Bill C-16 and his political arguments:
October 19, 2016 — Bill C-16 — No, its Not about Criminalizing Pronoun Misuse;
October 24, 2016 — No, the Trans Rights Bill Doesn’t Criminalize Free Speech;
November 14, 2016 — The Intellectual Fraudulence of Jordan Peterson;
December 19, 2016 — Are Jordan Peterson’s Claims About Bill C-16 Correct?;
May 10, 2017 — Canadian Bar Association statement about Bill C-16;
May 16, 2017 — OPEN LETTER — The Reality of Bill C-16;
June 13, 2017 — Bill C-16 passes!;
November 21, 2017 — What the Wilfrid Laurier professors got wrong about Bill C-16 and gender identity discrimination;
January 2, 2018 — Professorship versus censorship: Should Jordan Peterson continue to be given a platform on trans rights?;
January 29, 2018 — A Field Guide to Jordan Peterson’s Political Arguments;
April 25, 2018 — How Jordan Peterson Misrepresented Bill C-16, Pronoun Use, & Free-Speech To Get Famous;
Misrepresented legal cases where Peterson or his fans try to use as evidence for the “tyranny of the Bill C-16”:
May 10, 2019 — Days without lying about C-16: 0;
Bizarre, weird, lunatic, controversial things he did or say:
May 25, 2011 — Quantum physics means consciousness creates reality!
October 27, 2011 — A fedora-wearing Peterson denounces women who won’t settle down and men who aren’t setting a 1950s example;
November 25, 2013 — Peterson: “Proof itself, of any sort, is impossible, without an axiom (as Godel proved). Thus faith in God is a prerequisite for all proof.”;
March 3, 2017 — “91% of those who view my videos are male. Why? Why so few women?”;
April 6, 2017 — Women who don’t consider having a child as their primary desire by age 30 are “not quite right in the way that they’re constituted”;
April 10, 2017 — Women are happier when they focus on family instead of a career;
September 28, 2017 — “Is it possible that young women are so outraged because they are craving infant contact in a society that makes that very difficult?”;
October 5, 2017 — Jordan Peterson speculates that the historical symbol of the snake double helix (caduceus) has something to do with DNA;
October 27, 2017 — UofT prof Jordan Peterson targets Socialist Fightback Students activist;
October 27, 2017 — Actually, doxxing is okay and actually good when the target is Marxists;
November 8, 2017 — Peterson thinks that the reason Stalin could kill so many people, was because he was an atheist and therefore had no morals.;
November 10, 2017 — Jordan Peterson: “With all the accusations of sex assault emerging (eg Louis CK) we are going to soon remember why sex was traditionally enshrined in marriage…”;
November 10, 2017 — University of Toronto Professors Warn Jordan Peterson is Planning a Targeted Harassment Campaign;
November 13, 2017 — When she says no, she really means yes? or…?;
November 21, 2017 — Lindsey Shepherd: Transcript of the Meeting;
November 22, 2017 — The West is in grave danger; postmodern neomarxist kindergarten teachers are indoctrinating our children into respecting others personal space!;
November 27, 2017 — Jordan Peterson Blasted By Alt-Right Fans For Banning Speaker From ‘Free Speech on Campus’ Event;
November 27, 2017 — Peterson has said it’s okay to punch communists. I wonder if his fans believe it’s okay to punch Nazis too. Oh wait of course they don’t…;
November 29, 2017 — Richard Spencer to Jordan Peterson: “I respect your work. And we share a lot of common ground and philosophical starting points.”;
December 9, 2017 — Pepe the Frog being a manifestation of Kek is a confirmation of Carl Jung’s concept of paranormal “synchronicity”;
December 17, 2017 — Jordan Peterson’s “logic” on gay marriage;
January 9, 2018 — Peterson cannot into Google search;
January 19, 2018 — Martin Heidegger, concisely explained by Jordan Peterson;
January 23, 2018 — Jordan Peterson: Feminists support the rights of Muslims because of their “unconscious wish for brutal male domination.”;
January 28, 2018 — Jordan Peterson explains “Godel’s incompleteness theorem” [sic];
January 28, 2018 — Former Truth and Reconciliation Commission Chair: ‘Jordan Peterson is Racist. Are We Really Surprised?’;
January 29, 2018 — Peterson Learns a Thing or Two About the Indigenous Group He’s Trying to Fetishize;
January 28, 2018 — Peterson and Climate Change, A Collection;
February 2, 2018 — Hurricane Katrina was a punishment ~~from god~~ for not cleaning your room;
February 5, 2018 — r/jordanpeterson is upset that I called JBP a misogynist;
February 6, 2018 — If you are Atheist you are secretly Christian. Why does the youtube skeptic sphere like these guys again?;
February 7, 2018 — Jordan Peterson is not sure if men and women can work together in the workplace. Women who don’t want to be harassed but wear makeup are being “hypocritical”;
February 8, 2018 — Jordan Peterson believes that ancient Chinese art depicts DNA;
February 10, 2018 — Jordan Peterson BLAMES Women for Sexual Harassment;
February 13, 2018 — Peterson thinks Frozen is “reprehensible propaganda”;
February 16, 2018 — If you go deep down the hole, past the popular lectures and into his 8 million relatively unknown audio recordings, some of the shit is really fucking weird;
February 16, 2018 — Peterson says that if people “wait till date four and try not to drink too much in the first three” dates that would solve the sexual assault problem;
February 16, 2018 — Telling students that it’s OK to be trans is “indoctrination”;
February 17, 2018 — Jordan Peterson admits having 3 cases of sexual misconduct;
February 20, 2018 — Could casual sex necessitate state tyranny? -JP
February 24, 2018 — Peterson Refuses to go on Marxist podcast despite agreeing to, states that Marxists refuse to talk to him;
March 1, 2018 — Very responsible psychotherapist promotes mental illness denial;
March 9, 2018 — Why Jordan Peterson Thinks Frozen Is Propaganda, But Sleeping Beauty Is Genius;
March 2, 2018 — Jordan Peterson: Powerful evolutionary biologist;
March 15, 2018 — Jordan Peterson comes to the defense of outspoken white nationalist Lauren Southern;
March 17, 2018 — An observation about Nathan J. Robinson piece on Jordan Peterson;
March 21, 2018 — The Jordan Peterson Mega-Archive Post;
March 30, 2018 — A court rejects Peterson’s personality testing as unscientific nonsense;
March 30, 2018 — Lindsay Shepherd and “the left”;
April 8, 2018 — Peterson believes the poor don’t deserve homes;
April 27, 2018 — Nietzsche? Camus? All the same to the world’s leading intellectual;
April 28, 2018 — When toxic masculinity talks about toxic masculinity;
April 29, 2018 — Take responsibility for your problems! (except for raping people, a “complex” social issue);
April 29, 2018 — I’d like my pronouns served with a side of MURDER;
May 8, 2018 — Clinical psychologist tells female client what she REALLY needs in her life;
May 20, 2018 — Peterson’s Misogyny, A Collection (Updated);
June 4, 2018 — Apparently, intellectuals who disagree with Peterson on IQ lack gratitude and humility;
June 12, 2018 — Jordan “Classical Liberal” Peterson supports a trade war… against Canada;
June 12, 2018 — Lindsay Shepherd sues Wilfrid Laurier, claiming ‘attacks’ have ‘rendered her unemployable in academia’;
June 13, 2018 — Lindsay Shepherd admits she has the hots for far-right guys and that her boyfriend is far-right;
June 15, 2018 — Entitled, or unemployable: which is the real Lindsay Shepherd?;
June 16, 2018 — Jordan Peterson and Alcoholics Anonymous;
June 17, 2018 — Jordan Peterson: Powerful evolutionary biologist (Part Deux);
June 17, 2018 — Jordan Peterson: climate scientist;
June 18, 2018 — When you’re a leading scientist of the 19th century;
June 20, 2018 — Transcribed excerpt from the Joe Rogan Experience podcast #877 — Jordan Peterson;
June 20, 2018 — [Brief Notes] Peterson’s definition of God repeats all the same mistakes of Liberal Theology;
June 21, 2018 — Jordan Peterson Sourcebook, Part One;
June 30, 2018 — descending into Jordan Peterson’s peer-reviewed “scholarly” dumpster inferno: bullshitting the origins of individualism;
July 8, 2018 — Jordan Peterson drinks apple cider, causing him to feel impending doom and sleep deprivation for 25 days;
July 5, 2018 — Jordan shares another piece written by a Neo-Nazi;
July 30, 2018 — Peterson’s Sources are Impeccable;
Misc.:
June 22, 2011 — Feminist critics of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology;
September 1, 2012 — Genetic Essentialism: On the Deceptive Determinism of DNA;
May 21, 2014 — Philosophy of biology vs. Evolutionary Psychology;
February 18, 2015— Sex redefined: The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that; see also the works by Anne Fausto-Sterling (Wikipedia article) and Judith Butler;
July 5, 2017 — Free Speech, Higher Education, and the PC Narrative;
December 15, 2017 — CDC gets list of forbidden words: Fetus, transgender, diversity;
April 19, 2018 — McInnes, Molyneux, and 4chan: Investigating pathways to the alt-right;
April 20, 2018 — Blackface is free speech but anti-Bush tweet is not at California university;
April 25, 2018 —Millennial men value altruism and self-care above traditional male qualities;
April 27, 2018 — THERE IS NO Campus “Free Speech Crisis”: A Close Look at the Evidence;
June 4, 2018 — How does the literary canon reinforce the logic of the incel?;
June 11, 2018 — Study: Today’s dads are engaging more with their kids;