Penguin Random House Staff Confront Publisher About New Jordan Peterson Book
Read the whole thing. It's absolutely great.
Another employee said “people were crying in the meeting about how Jordan Peterson has affected their lives.” They said one co-worker discussed how Peterson had radicalized their father and another, who is talked about how publishing the book will negatively affect their non-binary friend.
These people are NUTS.
And if you believe that Random House is innocent in all of this, think again.
“The company since June has been doing all these anti-racist and allyship things and them publishing Peterson’s book completely goes against this. It just makes all of their previous efforts seem completely performative,” the employee added.
People will know what to do with the books of publishers such as this. I will buy Jordan Peterson's book, and that's it.
Some of the schisms going on on the left are so fascinating. You have a (presumably) young staffer at a major publisher thinking "People started crying" will make their case more sympathetic, a sympathetic journalist clearly agreeing, and then most normal liberals' reactions.
At one point my editor asked if I wanted to consider doing a chapter on JP. I read half of 12 Rules and there was just not enough to latch onto. It is dense and overwritten but it is really just self-help. Less evidence of outright wrongness than the other ideas I critique.
Jordan Peterson is so milquetoast, such a clown world where he is seen as a right winger.
All these people crying should be fired for being unprofessional.
That was an eye opener for me, Jorden Peterson was a "right winger" according to most of reddit so I never gave him a chance until it was recommended to me by this guy at work, was kind of a red pill although I was already on my way to the right.
To be fair, he brings it in to himself a little bit because his schtick is kinda being deliberately edgy sometimes. Like there’s no way he didn’t see the “compel girlfriends” thing getting away from him
"Enforced monogamy" is neutral jargon for the idea he was referring to. It's not "compel girlfriends."
Was it enforced? I remember him saying something more like societal or culturally encouraged monogamy
That's what it means: a social expectation of monogamy.
It doesn't mean a goon squad compelling people to get married.
This is a good example of their ongoing projection.
Anything they would expect to be societally enforced -will- be enforced by a goon squad, as we have seen over the past summer. The idea that shared cultural values put in place an inherent expectation that you behave in a proper way is just not in the cards for them.
lol way off, but you still knew exactly what I was referring to
Screw that. Sources up or no one will believe you
Not if your goal is communism, and that is every publisher. Orwell couldn't get Animal Farm printed because all the publishers were censorious progressives.
They're not working in publishing to come across foreign ideas, they work there to control the flow and stop the good stuff from getting out.
Sounds like a group of people that really need to clean their rooms.
I doubt any of them could pick up the heaviest thing they could find, either mental or physical, and carry it anywhere.
commies hate jp because he tells people to harden the fuck up
and people who harden the fuck up don't become the kind of whiny pussies that commies recruit as useful idiots
Weak people with short time preferences are much easier to control.
Hard men don't need you to protect them.
First better yourself before trying to change the world? What do you want a world where being factually correct is more important then emotionally righteous? That looks like fascism (definition may need to be updated).
JBP's book is just his advice to people on steps to improve yourself so that you don't become vessels of resentment that can be easily manipulated by those with malicious agendas aka your average leftist. Anne Collins, the imprint publisher, is completely correct when she says his book has deradicalized people, not the opposite.
SELF-HELP IS ALL IT WAS EVER MEANT TO BE YOU CLUELESS, FECULANT FUCK.
The idea of individual agency is garlic to their vampires. Their ego cant handle the notion that their current siruation is their fault and they are responsible for fixing it.
Instead they blame "the system" or "patriarchy" or "racism" that way they always have an excuse to be lazy and opportunistic.
I wonder how many had she/her pronouns.
Methinks mostly she/they - the worst kind of human trash in existence.
These people are sick and demented.
I don't find this funny, at all. These people need help, but they're more likely to have the meme virus removed by high-velocity heavy metals than kind words at the rate they're moving.
How do you un-brainwash someone who finds a Canadian Trad-Con and his ideas beyond the pale of comprehension?
That's the blackpill: you don't.
At the very best you can create a surrounding so hostile to their ideas that they have no choice but to suppress them, but you can't un-brainwash somebody.
I remember a NYT op ed where she blasted JP for being Christian, believing in witches and dragons and not paying proper respect to communist soldier heroes.
Anyone who's ever understood anything Jordan Peterson has said should have noticed the fact that it's effectively a very good self-help book.
It says something that "Buck up, bucko" becomes the evil equivalent to the end times to these people, doesn't it?
I mean, isn't all of that shit completely performative? They hold these meetings about being anti-racist with the cover of tolerance, but they'll absolutely drag you and try and destroy your life for thinking the wrong things and not find any of it hypocritical. Also god forbid a white male write a self-help book, even more so to help young men find themselves and their place in the world.
They need to state this? They are a business. Unless they say otherwise, it's safe to assume that everything they do is for money.
It seems this person expects their business to do the money thing as the performative bit to hide the actual work of enforcing change upon a society, whether it's wanted or not.
And when they say otherwise, it's still safe to assume that everything they do is for money.
Imagine that. A business. Shooting for money. The horror
There are only two reasons they hate Jordan Peterson;
He publicly called out their bullshit when it came to trying to force people to say things they don't believe, in the form of 'preferred pronouns'.
He openly talks about the terrible, murderous track record of communism.
Beyond that, he's just another guy telling people how to get their act together and stop being useless demotivated fucks.
CLEAN YOUR ROOM.
JOURNEY TO THE UNDERWORLD TO RESCUE YOUR DEAD FATHER.
DEFEAT CHAOS.
imagine thinking anyone could be "radicalized" by a twig of a man who sounds like kermit the frog.
I have this feeling Jesse Singal is actually red-pilled, but just can't admit it because he'll lose everything.
Notice how he has to virtue signal that even though JP isn't literally hitler, he still sucks and is a pseudo-intellectual. Even if true, how is it even relevant to the story?
Maybe Singal can't even admit it to himself that he's no longer part of the orthodoxy. Yeah he's totally part of the real "left", the real "normal liberals" and it's not the SJWs who now represent the left. Keep telling yourself that man.
Maybe they should protest by setting xemselves on fire in front of their office.
Lmfao crying over a book