Jordan Peterson, as you can imagine, is a very sensitive man.
While he likes to call other people ugly, he certainly doesn't like to be insulted.
And so since he's been dealing with some
insults recently, he's threatening to stop using Twitter.
Although I feel like he tweets at least once an hour.
Now,
>> I love it, I love tweeting, but you're threatening to stop tweeting.
>> No, yesterday,
>> He actually had like four tweets about stopping tweets.
>> It was amazing.
You know what happens when I feel like Twitter is starting to be too much?
Like it's starting to weigh heavy on my soul, I just stop using it.
I don't announce like, I am now going to step away from Twitter, no one cares.
>> [LAUGH] And he's basically been doing it for like half
an hour, I am now stopping tweeting to get a bologna sandwich.
>> [LAUGH] >> But we didn't really need to know that.
>> Yeah, when you're gone, no one notices, even if you have a huge following.
So anyway, but let's talk about the context.
What happened?
Well, we covered the, I guess the catalyst to all of this.
Which was Jordan Peterson feeling the need to out of nowhere, and
randomly attack a model on a magazine cover that he found unattractive.
So this is the magazine cover in question, it's the Sports Illustrated
Swimsuit edition, and Yumi Nu is the model that's featured on the cover.
And in response to that, Jordan Peterson said sorry, not beautiful,
and no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.
All right, so Jordan Peterson doesn't find her attractive, and like a
seven year old, feels the need to insult her out of nowhere.
And thinks it's authoritarian tolerance when in reality, he wants to force his
preferences on everyone else by not having
models that he finds unattractive on covers.
That's what this is all about, all of the Jordan Peterson
supporters who are like, this is a serious discussion about health, okay?
No, he's he didn't say anything about health,
he specifically talked about beauty in the tweet.
So let's focus, and not needlessly go in other directions.
We're just talking about looks here.
He doesn't find her attractive, which no one is forcing him
to, but adults are supposed to be a little better than kids.
Kids are impulsive, they just say what's on
their mind, and they might say something insulting, right?
But adults are like, [SOUND] that's not for me, but I
don't really need to vocalize that this is not my preference.
That's what Jordan Peterson did.
Now, a lot of people dunked on him, including Hassan who wrote, sorry,
not beautiful, of course posted a very
unflattering but accurate photo of Jordan Peterson.
Sorry, not beautiful and no amount of
authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.
Another person posted a similar photo,or the same photo I should say.
Jordan Peterson looks like his job is stealing blood from
hospitals for dracula, which is actually very on point, very accurate.
Yumi Nu actually
responded to
it as well,
with hoes mad.
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH] He's like, I can't do it ,by the way, that's the old thing on youtube.
Like I can't masturbate to this, it's like a meme, right?
[LAUGH] So, he just happened to say it
out loud, that is intellectual for the right way.
>> And then this, >> [LAUGH]
>> This was probably one of my favorites.
Someone had asked me who Jordan Peterson was, and I described him
as Gwyneth Paltrow, but for incels, and they stopped asking questions after that.
>> [LAUGH] That's a great line.
Okay, I happen to think I drove him off of Twitter.
Okay, so, >> Cenk, you're so unbearable.
>> And it's so true.
>> God.
>> Okay, I know my weaknesses, and my strengths.
And my strength is driving off of Twitter, my weaknesses being unbearable.
So I replied to him, you know Sports Illustrated is not the government, right?
You know they chose this because they thought it would sell more copies, right?
That's not authoritarianism, that's capitalism.
Demanding everyone have your taste is authoritarianism, right wing
idea of an intellectual ,and then crying and laughing emoji.
So I say that because look, I don't know what it was kidding aside, right?
I don't know if it's like he called her basically
ugly, and then he gets called ugly, and that did it.
Or him getting clowned because this is, it was such
a stupid point and he's supposed to be their top intellectual.
If that was embarrassing enough, like because he writes as you'll see
the tweets, maybe I need to take more time before I write stuff.
Now, you're thinking Jordan.
>> Yeah, And also I think people are making the mistake of thinking that only
those who disliked Jordan Peterson found his comment about the model distasteful.
Turns out a lot of his fans didn't like it either, because I don't
know if this is a surprise to you, but most women are not real thin.
And most people have partners who are also not real thin.
So one of his supporters said sheesh, Jordan Peterson big fan here.
I find my girlfriend with a body type like
this quite beautiful, dial it back a bit homie.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, so, and again, we don't know exactly,
I don't think there was one particular tweet, obviously.
I think it's because he got so much backlash
including from his own fans over what he said.
And so Jordan Peterson later in the day tweeted this.
I recently stopped accessing Twitter for three weeks as an experiment.
I had some of my staff post video links etcetera.
It was a genuine relief.
I started to read and write more, I started using it again a
few days ago, and I would say that my life got worse almost instantly.
I relate to that, by the way, okay?
But let's continue, the endless flood, this is my favorite part.
The endless flood of vicious insult is really
not something that can be experienced anywhere else.
I like to follow the people I know, but I think the incentive structure
of the platform makes it intrinsically and dangerously insane.
Dude, you went viral earlier in the day for calling a model ugly.
You are part of the problem.
Does he not see that?
>> No, he doesn't.
The right wing has no ability to do logic.
None, they think like, well, if I'm hurt, that's
a bad thing, me hurting others is perfectly good.
And and they genuinely believe that.
>> And he said,
>> They just can't, their simple little minds
can't comprehend other people also don't wanna get hurt.
>> No, my favorite thing, I mean, we did our own experiment not too long
ago, where I'm just sick of people
who aren't groomers, being referred to as groomers.
And so since Joe Rogan seems to be a fan of supporting people who wrongfully defame
people as groomers, I'm like, okay, let's call you a groomer, see how you like it.
You're a groomer, Joe Rogan, you're a groomer.
His supporters went nuts.
>> Yeah.
>> They're still stewing in their anger about it.
And it's like, do you guys get the point now?
But no, they don't get the point.
>> No, they don't, they're incapable of rational thinking.
They're like, it's so wrong when you call him groomer without any evidence at all.
But when we call everyone else groomers with no evidence at all, it's awesome.
>> Yeah.
>> They genuinely believe it, and that's why I'm despondent about the right wing.
How do you convince people who are immune to reason and logic?
>> That's exactly right.
Finally he says that he told his staff
to change his password to keep him from temptation.
>> What kind of temptation?
>> And I'm departing once again, if I,
whatever, you guys can read it for yourself.
He's basically announcing finally that he will not be tweeting,
and if you do see tweets, he promises it's not him.
It's his assistants, people who work for him, it's not him.
>> Okay, it was a very long way of saying I caught feelings.
Okay now, look we're fair, so two things to end on
our fairness, he's not entirely wrong about how hateful Twitter is.
I mean, even for me, people that know me on
Twitter think I'm like the angriest student in the world.
And if you watch the show, you're like sometimes he gets
mad, but a lot of times he's just joking around, right?
And generally, a very happy guy.
And, because Twitter encourages that, if I send
a pleasant tweet, it gets like 12 retweets.
If I send an angry tweet it gets 2000 retweets, right?
So the problem is the platform, so he's not wrong,
it's just that he's not acknowledging that he participates in it.
So for example I just acknowledged I participate in it,
and by the way there's a reason why I do.
Just like I haven't talked about the groomer
story, because nobody ever defends the left wing.
So, I punch back ,and that's why the right wing gets agitated.
They're like, i didn't know the Democrats were allowed to punch back.
Well, we are ,and we do.
Now, final thing on fairness.
He sent this tweet at 7 27 PM, the
one where he starts to backpedal out of Twitter.
I just checked to see when I sent my tweet.
Was it me?
Well I sent it at seven, no I'm Kidding 9:15.
It had nothing to do with me, he sent his tweet before I sent my insults.
So damn it, it wasn't me.