If ever you have read any of my pieces, you will know that I have respect for Jordan Peterson. In some areas. As a nonpartisan individual trained in science—real science, not fake-ass social science—I’m all over the board politically. Though in the wake of tragedy, I’ve finally realized something: Jordan Peterson is overrated.

Extremely overrated.

Jordan Peterson is overrated in the same way hipsters shout about The Beatles being the greatest band of all time, and every one of their songs is pure genius, when they only started listening to them a year ago but have all their vinyl LPs. Jordan Peterson is overrated the same way LeBron James was pushed past Jordan as the GOAT, yet shrinks mightily in the spotlight of the NBA Finals. Jordan Peterson is overrated the same way as fake tits: Sure, they look great inside a shirt, but they’re entirely unnatural when exposed to the open-air market of the male gaze.

So, as you can tell, I think Jordan Peterson is overrated, pretty bigly.

We all know the story. A few years ago, Peterson became a folk hero of freedom-loving people everywhere by refusing to accept that his government could compel his speech. A lot of writers who take to bashing JP in their articles will mischaracterize this entirely. I will try not to. As I understand the situation, Peterson never actually refused to call anyone by their preferred pronouns, nor did he mislabel/misgender/misidentify anyone by using their incorrect pronouns. He simply took the stance that government would not compel his speech.

F*ck, mate; it’s about time somebody stood up and said that for the rest of us! I think I’ll clean my room and pay ten bucks for a personality quiz after that.

He also gave Cathy Newman a beatdown of epic proportions that was glorious to watch. Which served two purposes for many of us:

It was a chance to live vicariously through someone who was laying a smack-down on the libs without even really trying. It acted as a microcosm of society at large in many of our opinions; the left twist and bend what you say, and repeat it back to you in a way that’s entirely foreign and unrecognizable to your actual beliefs, and damn it felt great to see one of them, in the press no less, eat mud because of that annoying behavioral trait.

So that’s the good stuff; the stuff with which I agree. (And, yes, this is obviously totally a subjective opinion piece by a bored writer, so simmer down.) The stuff that makes me think Jordan Peterson is overrated has to do with the stuff that he’s spouting out in the wake of the synagogue shooting.

I’m not alt-right. I don’t want Jews to be gunned down. For f*ck’s sake, stop turning the progressive left Marxists into prophets, you low-IQ lunatics! Oh, yeah, and I don’t want people going through that sort of pain. Though I’m not a virtue signaler; I won’t pretend that’s my main motivation, as we all know death and tragedy are explicitly seismic, and the person pretending these things aren’t seismic is just moralizing and throwing up the V-Signal. It objectively is, which is why we’ll defend our dogs but eat our cows. Get real.

Anyway, as I was saying, I’m not alt-right, so I don’t care that Peterson goes in on the alt-right about their collectivism.

What gets me is that Peterson very often presents himself as little more than an SJW himself.

How can you, in good conscience, blame alt-right online trolls and their antisemitic behavior for pushing someone to murder, while you ignore the literal tens of thousands of Jews, and hundreds of thousands of Marxists, who call for the death and extinction of white people?

Halsey would fire me if I posted even 1% of the anti-white hate I found here. It’d take up too much server space! Many of you reading this know about it all already; and if you don’t, simply enter some terms into your favorite social media site’s search feature, like “Kill white people,” or “white people are evil,” or anything related.

What you’ll find is a deluge of anti-white hatred that not only lays at the feet of white people the blame for all societal ills, real and imagined, but that also calls explicitly for the death and extinction of an entire race. Jews are a huge part of this!

(Hatred that hasn’t been deleted by Twitter or Facebook. Hatred that, if the other way around, would get your IP perma-banned and perhaps even doxed by media, if you were popular enough.)

No, not all Jews. I wouldn’t even say most Jews. But Jews who are leftist Marxists are, by and large, the biggest anti-white cheerleaders on the planet.

So, to the psychologist, I pose a small, quick thought experiment.

Let’s say you hate a group of people. Those damn pink-hairs in California! You loathe them; you blame them for making your life miserable. Now, what’s more likely to cause you to go shoot them? Be honest:

People whom you feel are like-minded in your hatred making fun of them and smearing them? Those people you hate calling for the death and destruction of you and your entire race, blaming your people for everything, and joyously proclaiming that they cannot wait until your group gets bred out of the world and goes extinct?

Well, Mr. “science” man – which one do you think caused him to target that group?

To be perfectly fair, it could be either, it could be both, or it could be neither. I’m not one to set up a false choice, because I’m actually a scientist and not a guesstimator on people’s behaviors.

Though remember we’re using JP’s context here: It was the antisemitic social media (((shitposts))) that caused him to do it!

In a lot of ways, this reminds me of those anti-video game advocates who claim that violent video games cause violence. Not sure where JP stands on this, also don’t really care. I care about the logic in it. How many gamers are there? Be hard to count that damn high, right? And how many actually go on IRL GTA sprees because of GTA? Like one in history? Two if we count that one guy, that one time?

Though people who are anti-games will say, “Look! Video games DO cause violence!?

And everyone with a brain in their head capable of rationalizing on the level of a toddler will say, “If this were true, and a video game was the causal agent, shouldn’t we be seeing a much, much higher percentage of those playing those video games committing violence?”

It’s why social science isn’t real science for starters. For f*ck’s sake; it’s all so tiresome. Though it’s also why we know that antisemitic shitposts, or shitposts in general, don’t cause people to commit crime.

Imagine saying that pet hamsters from Hamsters Fo Dayz, the best fictional hamster hub ever, were causing people to get sick and die.

So the store has sold 1,500 hamsters.

So far, there’s only been one reported case of said hamster owner dying from sickness.

Do you see the problem here? If you do, then two points:

Now you see why social science isn’t actually f*cking science. Now you see why Jordan Peterson is overrated.

Like everyone, including myself, he can’t keep his mouth shut about wanting to put a name on this horrible tragedy, a neat bow, so we understand the trigger – the proverbial final straw. But someone who’s supposedly a revered and respected clinical psychologist taking one example of a crazy person shooting Jews, and blaming that not only on collective antisemitic shitposting, but ignoring the fact that even more Jews call for our death, is just preposterous.

Jordan Peterson is overrated, and bordering on dumb as dirt – at least his super-woke hot-takes on collectives.

Someone once wrote a JP hit-piece, asking if Jordan Peterson was the dumb person’s smart person. Should we revisit that? Should we inquire as to the IQ scores of those individuals supporting his kingly lifestyle?

I’m not out to smear. I’m just out to disagree. But when you’re so blatantly antagonizing the alt-right and literally ignoring legitimate calls for the death of all white people, you catch my ire.

Yes, Jordan Peterson is overrated; and while I’m not rooting for government to compel him to speak, sometimes I wish he’d just shut the f*ck up.