Can you please elaborate on how exactly this is a piece hit on him? As in, how exactly were his words misinterpreted here?
To quote the tagline:
"The Canadian pop-psychologist’s descent into tired and predictable right-wing rhetoric continues apace. "
To quote the article:
"Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist and “anti-woke” crusader who has stirred controversy and garnered
praise,
opprobrium, and
ridicule for his pronouncements on postmodernism, “neo-Marxism,” gender, morality, and the rules of successful living, has donned a new pundit hat to opine on Russia, Ukraine, the war, and the West. The maverick professor lays out his thoughts on the subject in a 50-minute
video that garnered over 1.4 million views in the week since it was posted; the
transcript can be found on the
Daily Wire, where Peterson is now a regular contributor. Unfortunately, the main conclusion one can derive from the video is that creeping pro-Kremlin sentiment is a real problem in certain social conservative quarters—and it’s an ugly thing."
The first giveaway is that it calls him a 'pop' psychologist. This is supposed to denigrate him as less of a psychologist, and more of someone with a piece of paper simply parroting popular views. The man has decades of work as a professor, clinician, and counselor, which he has talked about at length in his publicly posted lectures.
The second giveaway is 'descent into tired and predictable right-wing rhetoric.'
This is an attempt to dismiss what he has to say before you even get to what he has to say. Given that what he has to say is an incisive critique of the failings of the modern left, and they use 'right-wing' as a negative term, that also tells you exactly where they're coming from.
The third giveaway is that they have "anti-woke" and "neo-Marxism" in quotation marks, indicating that you're not supposed to take such things seriously, that they're farcical and nonsensical.
Finally, just for this little bit anyways, they give you the conclusion, that the right has a rela problem with 'creeping pro-kremlin sentiment,'
before actually getting into what he said, demonstrates that they're here to tell you what to think, not here to actually discuss something intelligently.
I'm going to start watching the video now. I have some other things to do this evening, so I won't get back soon, but I'll post again after that.