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I'm one of those "we need to have actual discussions with people who disagree with us about things, so long as they're civil and not super extremist, and even when they're super extremist there are people who are capable of saving them so support that" people.

But Jordan Peterson fans? I can't. It's not that his opinions are bad, illogical, and willfully ignorant, though of course they are. It's that Peterson himself is both so phenomenally stupid and unbearably boring that I just... can't. I can't even say well, they're falling for charisma, because he's got less charisma than a typical mold spore. He claims that metaphor is reality and then rails against his misconception of... everything, because he's wrong about everything except "clean your room." He probably makes that into a weird attempted metaphor in a way that ends up making it wrong too.

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