Name: Is Jordan Peterson Mean?
Uploaded: 2023-09-11T14:00:22.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is Jordan Peterson Mean?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-11. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is Jordan Peterson Mean?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-11. Transcript available.

It's just so utterly preposterous. I mean, two of the things they complain
about are literally
criticisms of Trudeau. And like, if I can't criticize a standing prime minister
in my own
country, there is something seriously wrong. One of them was his chief of staff.
One of them was
a city councillor. One of them was the trans issue that we discussed. One of
them I criticized
Sports Illustrated for presenting a very obese cover model. And I said that as
far as I was
concerned she wasn't beautiful and that no amount of tolerant, of authoritarian
compassion
was going to convince me otherwise. And the other thing that, the other reason
that I think
Canadians got mad at that, and I think people in general is that they think I'm
being mean,
you know, and you should be nice. And first of all, I'm not exactly so sure
that you should be nice
all the time. I think we as a culture have got ourselves into an awful lot of
trouble by being
a little bit too nice. Like, I'm not so sure. I'll give you an example of that.
So Nicola Sturgeon,
who was the former prime minister of Scotland, said, any man who says that he's
a woman is a woman.
You think, well, that's pretty nice. If the guy wants to be a woman, well, we
can just go,
what harm could it do? And then the serial sexual slayers in prisons decided
that maybe they were
women, because maybe then they could go to women's prisons. And you know, if
you don't think that a
serial sexual killer will manipulate his image to get access to women, you are
a complete blithering,
bloody idiot. And of course, that's exactly what happened in Scotland. And so
Sturgeon was called out
on her pathological compassion. And that was one of the things that led to her
resignation. It's like,
tolerance beyond a certain level is 100%, absolutely, incontrovertibly a vice.
And when
tolerance has got to the point where it's a vice, then it's time to not be so
nice.
When you say a vice, what do you mean?
Oh, that's a very good question. You know, what is a vice exactly? Well, a vice
is a pattern of
behavior that if indulged in, especially repeatedly, leads to nothing but
negative consequences, even by
the self-definition of the person engaging in the vice. And so look, excess
alcohol use tends to be a
vice. Yeah. Well, why? Okay. How do you diagnose alcoholism as a pathology?
Well, the first thing you do
is you look at amount and frequency, let's say, but that's not enough. It has
to be a high amount
frequently that causes substantial disruption to one or more important domains
of life. So if you're
wondering whether you're drinking too much, you think, well, is it compromising
your health? Are your
friends starting to object? Have you got in trouble with the law? Is your wife
mad? Right? Exactly.
So is the behavior starting to produce negative consequences, even by your
definition, or perhaps
even more importantly, by your definition, then you'd say, well, any behavior
that tends to be quite
entertaining in the short term, but let's say not so good socially or in the
long term, that's a vice.
And we all know that, you know, there's lots of things like drinking is a great
example. It's an absolute
bloody blast, especially if you like alcohol. But, you know, when I was a kid,
I used to drink
a fair bit and I quit when I was about 24, 25, maybe a little later than that.
And, you know,
I was out three or four times a week having just a fine time. Drinking beer or
whiskey? Yeah.
Usually beer. I liked beer a lot, but whatever was available fundamentally.
Anything wet. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. And, um, at some point, especially as my professional career
developed, I realized
that I realized essentially, and this is also when I started, when I started my,
my permanent
relationship with Tammy, I thought, you know, the only thing I, only time I
really do things I regret
is when I'm drinking. Yeah. You know, if I'm, and same. Yeah. Well, that's the
thing. Well,
that's a vice, man. It's like, it's not good for you. And it's especially not
good if you're trying
to aim up, like you couldn't do what you're doing. How old are you? You'd die
at 27. Like,
you would have died at 27. That's when most people die. Yeah, exactly. And they
die from vices,
generally, you know. You were telling me that last time, one of the last times
that we spoke.
Thank you.