According to conservative author and psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson, the West’s threat to spread degeneracy as a result of the selection of America’s first black female Supreme Court Justice led Russia to attack Ukraine.
In his most recent opinion post for the Daily Wire, Peterson said that Vladimir Putin was bringing his people together and used the argument that they needed to stop degeneracy fueled by culture wars on gender to defend the war in Ukraine.
Peterson questioned, “Are we degraded, in a deeply scary way?” “I believe that could very well be the case.”
Peterson contends that the American culture war on gender, which he claims gained international attention when Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was unable to respond to the question, “What is a woman,” during her confirmation hearing in March, is partly to blame for this degeneracy.
According to Peterson, that instance demonstrated how the west is ‘irrational’ in the eyes of Russians and that its ideas must be suppressed.
The assertion was made at a time when the controversial psychologist was still facing criticism for his continued attacks on transgender actor Elliot Page, refusing to recognise the actor’s transition to male and alleging that Page was “converting” kids.
In her confirmation hearings, Jackson was criticized by Peterson, an outspoken opponent of mainstream transgender pronouns and identities, for failing to comprehend that gender was an easy concept to grasp.
“When the candidate was specifically asked in the interview during the confirmation process, “What is a woman,” she said, “I’m not a biologist,” even though it was a gotcha question that only served to highlight the severity of our current state of derangement.
That’s not a good response, Peterson remarked.
Peterson asserted that by avoiding the issue at hand, Jackson was promoting a “irrational” mindset that characterized the United States as “degenerate.”
This indicates that you have turned insane, he continued. This indicates that you have deteriorated.
Accordingly, he Peterson said, “those who fail to call you on your mad deterioration have become rowers on the same doomed boat.” This indicates that you have become insane, as have all those who do not call you out.
Jackson was a qualified candidate to succeed Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court of the United States, he said, but her appointment was eventually tainted by the Biden administration’s emphasis on sex and race.
Peterson asserted that the confirmation process would become solely political once President Joe Biden declared his intention to nominate a black woman for the Supreme Court, creating the narrative of a culture war.
According to Peterson, “the culture war is now really one of the reasons we have a conflict [in Ukraine].”
“It is undeniably true that we do not hold the entire moral high ground, so… In fact, it is a matter of the utmost serious disagreement how much of it we even have.
However, a lot of people disagreed with Peterson’s position, criticizing the seeming oversimplification of Russia’s reasons for invading the Ukraine and starting a deadly conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives since February.
According to political analyst John Iadarola, Peterson’s most recent assertion ought to be the “last nail in the coffin” for the author’s long-tainted career.
Iadarola tweeted that “Russia needs to attack Ukraine to stop it from becoming trans” is “an incredible nail in the coffin,” adding that “if in 2022 you still think of Jordan Peterson as an intellectual you’re definitely past the point of reasonable reasoning.”
Kurt Eichenwald, a journalist, was one of several who pointed out Peterson’s incorrect pronunciation of the Holodomor, a Soviet-era famine that claimed millions of lives in the Ukraine in the 1930s.
Eichenwald tweeted, “I saw the most weird diatribe by Jordan Peterson regarding Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.”
Repeating what he says will destroy brain cells, but this is a classic instance: He brags about his intelligence and mocks others for not knowing about “the Holomodor.”
The Holodomor is here, Einstein.
‘Jordon Peterson’s latest tirade about Russia having the right to invade Ukraine because of trans rights and gender theories in the US!!!’ one Twitter user with the handle Faranak Amidi remarked. Amazing, really!
A second Twitter user using by the handle Gundalf expressed similar concerns about the opinion piece and questioned Peterson’s specific statements.
I don’t think that’s really inaccurate, but it’s not a good excuse, and it has nothing to do with western “degeneracy,” he tweeted.
Russia attacked Ukraine because it has historically been a part of their area of influence. “Like, was Putin afraid that Russia might turn gay because of Ukraine?”
Days prior, Peterson stepped up his criticism on Page, alleging that the largest transgender celebrity in Hollywood was ‘converting’ kids by posing for photos with his abs.
Page’s shirtless appearance in Esquire’s summer issue last month prompted Peterson, who claimed Page had his breasts removed by a “criminal physician,” to be suspended from Twitter.
Peterson maintained his claim on Friday and claimed he felt compelled to speak up as a result.
See, if Ellen Page hadn’t been flaunting her new abs in a fashion magazine, I would have left her alone, Peterson said to podcaster Kyle Kulinski on his Krystal Kyle & Friends program.
How many children did she persuade to convert—one, do you suppose? One thousand?
The contentious psychologist also mocked his Twitter ban, continued to refer to Page as a woman, and continued to use his old name, Ellen.
Transgender persons refer to the conduct as “dead-naming,” which many find disrespectful.
Kulinski, who identified himself as leaning left on the political spectrum, seemed to take issue with Peterson’s assertions regarding Page’s purported impact over children.
As for the LGBT community, Kulinski said, “I think that’s very similar to the trans community where back when that first became a major problem, people thought, Oh, if we talk about it, if it’s in magazines or whatever, we’re supporting kids to go down that path.”
However, in reality, individuals acted as they do. Gay people. Therefore, I don’t believe you are encouraging people to do that.
Peterson responded to Kulinski’s claim after becoming irritated.
He responded, “No, that’s not what occurred. “You are entirely mistaken.
Then he yelled, “You’re completely wrong.” Nothing about that is right, you say.
Peterson claimed that the suspension of his Twitter account was hardly a penalty.
Peterson answered firmly, “Well, I don’t know if it put me in problem, you know, I don’t think I’m in trouble, Twitter banned me, but I don’t consider it trouble.
Peterson posted the tweet on June 22, the same day that season three of the Netflix series “The Umbrella Academy” was made available.
By renaming Page’s character from Vanya to Viktor, Netflix included his transition into the program.
Twitter reported Peterson’s remark for violating the platform’s policies against hate speech.
Jordan has faced criticism for her outrageous comments before.
After declaring a plus-size Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model to be “not gorgeous,” Peterson temporarily left Twitter in May.
Yumi Nu, a 25-year-old curvy model and the first Asian plus-size model to appear in Sports Illustrated, was featured on the cover of the publication.
‘Sorry. Not attractive. And authoritarian tolerance won’t be able to alter that,’ Peterson wrote.
Peterson asserted that he erased Twitter from his devices while his account was still live after receiving criticism. He had already departed the platform once before.
Peterson has a history of controversy stretching back to 2016 before he left the stage in May.