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Jordan Peterson appeared on Piers Morgan Uncensored Wednesday morning,and there was a single bright spot in two of the worst men in the world convening for a televised gab sesh: Peterson, at one point, broke down in tears.

While I cannot judge whether these tears were genuine or not, the red-meat-guzzling alpha male appeared to cry shortly after Morgan asked him about Dont Worry Darling director Olivia Wildes recent comments about him in Interview magazine. In the movie, Frank (Chris Pine), the main antagonist, is the leader of an incel-like cult, and Wilde explained that Frank was inspired by Peterson. We based that character on this insane man, Jordan Peterson, who is this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community, she told actor Maggie Gyllenhaal in the interview.

Wilde added, Jordan Peterson is someone that legitimizes certain aspects of [incels] movement because hes a former professor, hes an author, he wears a suit, so they feel like this is a real philosophy that should be taken seriously.

This morning, Morgan asked the controversial author for his reaction to these comments: This insane man, this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community, incel being these weirdo loner men who are despicable in many waysis that you? Are you the intellectual hero to these people? he said.

Sure, why not, Peterson replied, visibly emotional. People have been after me for a long time, because I have been speaking to young men, what a terrible thing to do. At that moment, he appeared to weep, before continuing, I thought the marginalized were supposed to have a voice?

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However casually the term incel may be wielded nowadays, incelswho weaponize their own frustrations and entitlement as an excuse to harass and abuse womenare extremely dangerous andbecoming more radical and violent. A new study found members of the most popular incel forumsviewed by 2.6 million people per monthmention the word kill every 37 minutes and the word rape every 29 minutes, and the subjects of their ire are, obviously, women and girls. Incels are largely fueled by the notion that women having rights amounts to mens oppressionand it certainly doesnt help when influential men go on TV and openly weep about how supposedly persecuted men are.

Noting Petersons emotional state at this point in their interview, Morgan asked if Wildes comments had stung him. Peterson called them kind of low-level compared to at least one other much-publicized fictional characterization of him. Last year, he was the muse for Ta-Nehisi Coates portrayal of the Nazi super-villain Red Skull in Coates Captain America comic book. Petersons exact response to this, at the time, was, What the hell? On Wednesday he told Morgan, Once I got painted as Red Skull, you know, a magical super-Nazi, that was kind of the end of the insults. Theres no place past that.

Despite the literal tears in Petersons eyes, he tried to save face by claiming to not be ~triggered~ by Wildes description of him. It didnt really bother me, he said, adding that he quite liked the trailer of the movie, though he hasnt watched it in full yet.

I said, I hope that you know that if I had to be played by someone, I think Chris [Pine] is a very good-looking man, Peterson continued. So that seems alright, you know.

Earlier in the interview, Peterson spoke at length about his frustration with how the demoralized young men whom he inspires are perceived. God, you know, its very difficult to understand how demoralized people are, and certainly many young men are in that category, he said. And you get these casual insults, these incelswhat does it mean? Of men who are characterized as incels, Peterson said theyre just rightfully upset that they dont know how to make themselves attractive to womenhis words, not mine!!

Women, like, be picky. Thats your gift, man. Demand high standards from your man. Fair enough, Peterson said. But all these men who are alienated, its like, theyre lonesome and they dont know what to do and everyone piles abuse on them.

If, as Peterson understands it, all cis, straight men have to fear in life is rejection, that still sounds like a luxury compared to what women are dealing with: being forced to give birth, attacked and disbelieved for reporting abuse, and bombarded by constant online death and rape threats. But, sure, Jordanhave a good cry about how marginalized men are!

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What do a clinical psychologist, an ex-kickboxer and a colour commentator have in common? In an ideal world, the answer would be: nothing. Unfortunately for us, the three in question are white, male influencers who have an incredibly large audience, a majority of whom are men.

Jordan Peterson, Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan make up a trio of internet "intellectuals" who seem to always be caught up in discussions on a variety of hotbed issues. Sadly, these armchair experts don't seem to have any qualifications backing up their arguments which they often seem impassioned about.

While being passionate about one's opinions is not a bad thing, their particular case might have greater consequences than initially meets the eye.

In a world where optics is everything, online presence is almost a currency. The more you have, the more power is in your hands. If there's an opinion or idea you want to put out into the world, and you have a large enough audience behind you, you can peddle any narrative or ideology you see fit. In most cases, with very little consequences to boot.

Now, our three musketeers of questionable opinions Peterson, Rogan and Tate are all individuals with massive followings online. They have their hordes of internet fans and supporters, many of whom are ready to blindly follow them into the abyss.

Sadly, at least two out of three of them have the intent to lead you into the darkness, to further their own personal agendas, all while acting like their particular beliefs come from rationality and knowledge.

Let's look at Peterson to make our case. The man began his climb to fame in 2016, when he posted a three-part video series called "Professor Against Political Correctness" on his YouTube channel. At the time, Peterson was a professor at the University of Toronto, and was growing increasingly concerned about a federal amendment which would add gender identity to the Canadian Human Rights Act.

His video series focused on combating the planned amendment using "logic," "reason," and "academia." Peterson framed his arguments under the guise of "concern" and used it to build a following of others who shared in his opinions. While some flocked to him because they shared his opinions from the get-go, others without any preconceived notions swayed with his opinions simply because he sounded like a smart person who had stuff figured out.

However, Tabatha Southey a columnist for Macleans best described Jordan Peterson when they called him a "stupid man's smart person." In an interview with The Guardian, Southey said, "Peterson's secret sauce is to provide an academic veneer to a lot of old-school rightwing cant, including the notion that most academia is corrupt and evil, and banal self-help patter. He's very much a cult thing, in every regard. I think he's a goof, which does not mean he's not dangerous."

Peterson's initial taste for fame alone was concerning. He was amplifying the voice of the alt-right, and reworking it into his own vernacular to make it sound educated, rather than bigoted.

Joe Rogan, on the other hand, is not an alt-right or conservative media personality. Personally, I don't think Rogan even has malicious intent or any grand schemes. The comedian/UFC commentator has built up his reputation around being a centrist. His once-number-one podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience" became a hit due to its interview format.

On a typical day, when he isn't talking to a celebrity or a UFC star, Rogan brings in an "expert" of a certain topic. In a lot of cases, he invites personalities from both sides of the political spectrum. Rogan's entire schtick involves him learning about topics from his guests, while trying to relate all of the new information he is learning to the things he knows most about: martial arts, drugs, hunting, and so on.

Where all of this goes wrong, however, is that Rogan provides a platform to people like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro, hence allowing his audience to be exposed to people with an agenda. If we take a look at Rogan's core fanbase, it is clear that a large portion of it consists of men who love the host because of his old-school ideologies around masculinity.

Now, when you expose such ideologies to a group of vulnerable men, who are in the process of trying to understand their sense of masculinity and self, it allows you to shape their ideologies and beliefs. These are malleable minds, looking for their own identity. In a lot of cases, these individuals are already defensive, as they find themselves in a world that is trying to hold men more accountable.

In such a state, it is often easy to indoctrinate these men with a set of beliefs that gives them some sense of identity. When Joe Rogan talks about his opinions about men needing to be more masculine and dominating, these viewers latch onto these ideas. Similarly, when Peterson comes onto JRE and talks about how socialists and the "left" are ruining our sense of tradition, and that men are being attacked unnecessarily, the same listeners feel a sense of kinship and adopt this line of thought.

Joe Rogan, in trying to be the centrist figurehead who opens up discussions and thereby hoping to establish a common ground between the right and the left has empowered individuals like Peterson, Shapiro, Dr Robert Malone, and so forth. He has enabled these snake oil salesmen to peddle their worldview to many impressionable people. Not unlike our man Andrew Tate.

Playing off similar sentiments as Rogan, Tate quite literally ran a Ponzi scheme through his online academy, Hustler's University to both launch himself into the spotlight, while also making a nice amount of profit. It was young and impressionable men-turned-fanboys who made Tate famous overnight.

Andrew Tate lives by the philosophy that controversy gets you clicks and engagement. Stir up enough trouble, and people will have to see you plastered across the internet. In the same way that he took a page out of Rogan's book, Tate also took notes from Peterson. If you sit down and watch an Andrew Tate video (without immediately suffering an aneurysm, of course), you'll realise just how much of a pseudo-intellectual the man really is.

The former kickboxer preaches everything from the idea that women are a man's property to suggesting that victims of rape should bear responsibility for the crime they have suffered. Tate takes on the persona of a cool, collected, and rational playboy who even has "justifications" to back up his arguments.

For quite a while, he dominated platforms like TikTok and YouTube, building up a cult of devoted followers, who would amplify his voice even more.

Now, this is not the first time the internet has been used to start cult-like groups. Think of the alt-right and incels. The former while not founded on the internet saw great success in the medium, and the latter originated on the web and is a well-renowned hate group.

We constantly allow personalities like Peterson and Tate to create a dedicated following on certain platforms in the name of free speech. But when these individuals then leverage their online presence to indoctrinate the impressionable, doesn't that leave us in a dangerous place?

What happens, when more impassioned fans of people like Tate decide that they've had enough words, and now it is time for action? What if, like former US president Donald Trump, Tate asked his followers to go out and mobilise against something he disagreed with?

When platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram finally got around to banning Andrew Tate, his videos had already been viewed billions of times. If Facebook's role in the Myanmar genocide has not made it apparent just how grave the consequences of online indoctrination and misinformation can be, then surely the US Capitol attack should.

Yet, people like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro still continue to exist and indoctrinate the next generation in subtler ways than Tate could. If we continue to allow these people to exploit freedom of speech to build their own cults of misogynistic men, then incidents like the Capitol attack will be the least of our worries.

Aaqib Hasib is a sub-editor at The Daily Star. Reach him at aaqib.hasib@thedailystar.net

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Jordan Peterson is never far away from a controversial opinion or outlandish statement but his latest claim is likely to raise the eyebrows of just about everyone as he thinks we all have a bit of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler within us.

The outspoken conservative Canadian professor and commentator has been in the UK this week as part of a speaking tour and made a stop off at Piers Morgan's Uncensored Talk TV show on Wednesday evening.

The pair's conversation which was...how shall we say 'interesting' primarily focused on the biggest talking point of the day which was Russian president Vladimir Putin's fresh nuclear threats to the West after he announced a partial mobilization of troops to Ukraine.

As a psychologist, 60-year-old Peterson tried to give some analytical thoughts on Putin but one statement even stopped in his tracks.

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"Well, he's a lot more like everyone else than anyone thinks," began Peterson. "The notion that he's Hitler or Stalin, that's just foolish. I don't see any evidence for that at all.

"First of all Hitler and Stalin were very singular types. There's a bit of Hitler and Stalin in everyone so there's some truth in that."

Morgan interjected and questioned this unusual claim for Peterson. "A bit of Hitler in everyone. Really?," the journalist said.

"There's more than a bit," Peterson replied.

A still astonished Morgan replied with "really" again.

Peterson continued: "Oh absolutely. Well, why would Nazism have spread the way it did? People think that's all talked down. It's not talked down."

Morgan added: "Didn't [Joseph] Goebbels say the best way to get vast numbers of people to go along with what you want to do is to terrify them? In a way that's what Putin is doing with the Russian people as he's going back to a position of 'they are all trying to get us, they want to attack us, they want to take us over.' He's terrifying his people to really support for what is at the moment is a conflict he has started that isn't going the way he assumed."

Unfortunately, Peterson doesn't offer any further thoughts on why we all have a bit of Hitler in us but you are welcome to watch the rest of the interview yourself which sees him give a prediction on how the war will end and why Putin's methods are similar to his favourite topic 'cancel culture.'

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We All Belong rally host Oakley Peterson stands on stage handing out prizes. The rally welcomed attendees to show support for the inclusion of all kids in schools, no matter their abilities and lifestyles. (Kaigan Bigler)

We All Belong hosted a rally to support the inclusion of all kids in schools, no matter abilities and lifestyles on Sept. 26.

Oakley Peterson, activist and mother of four, is advocating for kids with disabilities to be included in their schools by participating as a board member in We All Belong.

When the Jordan School District announced in 2021 they would be moving disability programs out of specific schools in the district, Peterson began fighting for disability rights.

Petersons 9-year-old son Welles has Down syndrome, which Peterson prefers to refer to as Up syndrome. At the time of Jordan School Districts decision, Welles was in first grade at his fifth school. Peterson had decided she had had enough of moving Welles around so much.

I think sometimes these district people think, Maybe these kids dont have the awareness to care, Peterson said.

Thus, the We All Belong initiative was born. Monday nights rally was their second rally, and they plan on doing it annually, Peterson said.

I love to see our community come together in these settings, Brady Murray, co-head of RODS Heroes, said amidst kids running around in crimson capes embossed with the RODS logo.

Murray and his wife Andrea have two sons with Down syndrome. They created RODS to support children with disabilities in underserved countries to receive the care they need and eventually be adopted.

The main goal We All Belong and RODS Heroes has is for these children to be included in society, Andrea Murray said.

Hundreds of people attended the rally, which Peterson said was a pleasing turn out because they did not know what to expect.

Peterson said a lot of the families that attended did not have children children with disabilities.

That is the most important part that these parents are witnessing the importance of our kids being part of their kids lives and I think we accomplished that, Peterson said.

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Dr Jordan Peterson, one of the most celebrated and inspiring teachers in the world has been appointed Chancellor atRalston College and has launched the first term of their new Masters programmein the Humanities on the beautiful Greek island of Samos.

According to Ralston College:

The Greek language and the spirit of Hellenism are the threads which run through the humanities in all of their disparate forms in each epoch of their expression. For centuries, the ability to access the foundational texts of the Western tradition without translators, commentators, or other intermediaries has been a nearly universal prerequisite for the meaningful encounter withand entry intoits cultural inheritance.

For this reason, our program begins with an intensive language residency in Greece. An innovative pedagogical module that approaches every form of the Greek language simultaneously and which moves fluidly between different forms of language acquisition will enable the study of Greek texts in subsequent terms. Undertaking this ambitious project in Greece itself will not only allow for complete linguistic immersion but also for excursions to some of the major cultural centers of the Hellenic world.

On June 22, 2022, Dr Jordan B Peterson posted a tweet over trans actor Elliot Page. Within hours, his account was banned. On July 1, the video Twitter Ban goes live on Petersons channel, where he breaks down and analyzes the incident. Weeks pass, but no answers emerge from Twitter: no reinstatements or explanations.

Dear Mr Agrawal, I wrote this when it was literally two in the morning during my recent visit to beautiful Samos, Greece where I was on business attending to my efforts on the educational front. begins Dr Peterson.

I woke up suddenly from my slumbers with you and your company on my mind in my jet-lagged state unable to drowse further and so i sat there writing instead of sleeping. he continues.

Dr Peterson is a tireless defender of free thought, free speech, and conscientious action; and a passionate advocate of the true and beautiful things that those free acts can attain. A brilliant interpreter of Western culture and a mentor to the millions of students whom the modern university has betrayed, Dr Peterson understands the transformative power of human civilization and the unique nourishment that its cultural treasures afford.

Dr Peterson has been an eloquent advocate for and a fearless champion of the ideals that have, for centuries, been central to the enterprise of university education.

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