• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 months ago

    You might want to read more than the very first sentence considering the rest (including the headline) says he’s wrong about everything.

    He’s a famous public intellectual because that’s what his fans, and he has way too many, consider him.

    • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      So then you refer to Trump as the true current President because that’s what his fans, and he has way too many, consider him?

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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        8 months ago

        Dude. Just read the article. You’re hung up on a single sentence. The entire rest of the article talks about why everything Peterson says is wrong.

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        8 months ago

        Well he isn’t a nurse. He isn’t a construction worker. He isn’t a broadcaster. He isn’t a mailman. What the hell do you want to label the guy? Go get a job in journalism and then you can play word police.

      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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        6 months ago

        It’s a profession, like calling Trump a businessman even though he only goes bankrupt

        or that American who wrote the Earth was flat