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Just listen to a Joe Rohan episode with him. Why do so many people hate him inside and outside of here? He’s a pretty tepid philosopher, but it doesn’t seem like he’s saying anything different than what any psychologist will tell you.

>> No.10897830

>>10897822
Pseud

>> No.10897837

>>10897822
>He’s a pretty tepid philosopher, but it doesn’t seem like he’s saying anything different than what any psychologist will tell you.

Yes, exactly why we hate him

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>>10897822
>Philosopher

>> No.10897855

he's the only one who has the balls to go up against identity politics bullshit

he gives meaning to older truths, millenials are immoral selfish fucks

he's no philosopher obvs

>> No.10897867

>>10897822
He’s a clinical psychologist. This makes him extremely well versed in the psychoanalytic approach. He’s good at debugging people and knows what buttons to press to get people to ‘sort themselves out’. He’s also got some interesting views on the radical left, and while he’s a bit entrenched in his own ideas sometimes, generally delivers a credible critique of them.
He’s disliked because the left don’t like anyone who is popular and not left.
4chan/Redditor trump lovers don’t like him because he’s not alt right. They want him to be a Jewish conspiracy theorist like them as he’s not, so they won’t take anything he says credibly.
He’s disliked because he has a painfully cringeworthy fan base who take his every word as biblical prophecy.
He’s disliked because he’s simultaneously very hectoring while not following a lot of his own advice. He comes across as preaching the path to being the perfect human while being fallible in his own ways.

>> No.10897892

he's the only credible academic on the right, who can actually defend his opinions

he is hectoring and weak on history, but great on identity politics

he speaks up credibly for men, which nobody else does in a way that's not cringeworthy

>> No.10897926

>>10897822
He's giving an intellectual confidence that really nobody should have to a group of people who especially shouldn't have it.

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10897930

>it's the hourly memerson thread episode

>> No.10897936

>>10897926
on this logic, judith butler et al should be hung

>> No.10897948

Mods

>> No.10897951

>>10897822
His command of anything besides psychology is weak. Yes, the opinions he's famous for aren't really that strong or problematic, but he's far from a philosopher, and at least for me, it's his overly strong claims in philosophy (while being ignorant of history, myth and formal philosophy himself) that are the issue.

His opinions are just fine, and probably needed in the American political climate now. He just shouldn't present the stronger (metaphysical/cosmogonical/essentialist) ones as based in science and history, because anybody who studies history or sociology knows he's full of shit. But then again, to combat "moral relativism" I guess he needs everything to be universal for his adopted children to follow him blindly, so whatever.

>> No.10897954

>>10897926
this.

>>10897936
sure, i agree with that