Effer wrote:beegoesbzz wrote:Effer wrote:
Tbf, don't people do this with everyone even remotely popular? John Green (???) Also got a lot of flack when he had more than a few bestsellers.
The difference is that John Green wrote books for teenagers. Once they grew up they realized how overrated and lacking his books were. Petersons audience were (and still is) mostly young adults.
The critique I heard was about how creepy it was for an adult man to write books, where the main audience was teenage girls. Also something about sexism, but I honestly don't remember anymore.
Young adults are also little shits. If you fall out of favor with your audience it has for some reason become acceptable to bully them and degrade them. It's unfortunately just how the internet is. Age doesn't really matter here either. I have had this close to me, because I had a friend who was bullied into more than one life-ending attempt by Twitter, where some of the people that were part of the bullying were 30 years old.
Jordan Peterson is labelled as a "right wing hero" and has gotten a lot of flack for some critique of a swimsuit model.
www.dailydot.com/debug/jordan-peterson-quits-twitter/So that's probably why he's become fair game to ridicule. American politics are very toxic, and if you aren't part of the hive mind then it's apparently okay to bully someone.
The hatred for Peterson started way before the swimsuit model scandal though,