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[–] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I read one of his books before i knew who he was, and found although the advice was mostly common sense (if a bit context free) advice, followed by long rants about traditional family's, and backed up by bible. I found myself thinking "what about behaviourism research?", you know there has been progress in the last 100 years. I'm ashamed that the traditional family shit didn't tip me off.

I've found him come up in my google feeds often too, It's insidious.

In terms of convincing your brother about how off this guy is, generally there are how to approach things on line (i.e. you can't always take a logical approach). I've also encountered this kind of thing in my extended family, I've got distant aunts that likely voted for trump, and they are otherwise decent people (i.e. not racist, and supportive).

[–] Jayb151@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's a wild statement to insinuate that your family voting for Trump somehow makes them bad people. Likewise, Peterson has some decent advice that I think should not fully be written off due to his personal life.

I haven't really seen anyone in this thread disqualify his argument based on merits and only using their own feelings to say he's wrong.

In all honesty, I don't have a horse in this race, but I don't think Peterson is a terrible as everyone seems to think. Maybe I'm crazy

[–] Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

voting for Trump somehow makes them bad people.

Objectively it does.

Maybe I'm crazy

Or just dumb.