Jordan Peterson: Kavanaugh Should Step Down from Supreme Court to ‘Have His Name Cleared’

Breitbart ^ | October 7, 2018 | Tom Ciccotta

[familyop]

Professor Jordan Peterson argued this weekend that Brett Kavanaugh should step down from the Supreme Court for a "less divisive" nominee to take his place, despite Peterson’s past advice to "never apologize to a mob."...The tweet came in response to a thread by former Evergreen State College Professor Bret Weinstein, who called Kavanaugh an "entitled punk."

[Kickass Conservative]

Trying it again:

Isn’t it easier to just throw Justice Kavanaugh down a Well?

If he DROWNS he is Innocent, if he survives, burn him at the Stake.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

We need him in the Culture Wars fight.

You really don't need someone who councils surrender. But you follow who you like.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Sessions?

IMHO the first order of business is to investigate the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and all of Ford’s friends - starting with her pal in the FBI. And everyone involved in every other smear launched against Kavanaugh in the past couple of weeks. Audit their taxes. Find out where they got every dime they have. And prosecute every one of them - Ford last.

But at the same time, begin an investigation into the Associated Press. It shouldn’t take long to prove that the AP Stylebook forbids calling illegal aliens “illegal aliens.” As just one example of the “conspiracy against the public” which the AP “wire” creates. The AP is a standing violation of the Sherman AntiTrust Act. Prosecute, punish with prejudice, TERMINATE! And that goes, in attenuated but real form for all the members of the AP.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)

The AP “wire” is a continual virtual meeting of all of the AP’s membership. Conspiracy against the public is inevitable in such case.

[familyop]

"One of the best things about Jordan Peterson is that he is unafraid to admit when he has been wrong."

If he really used the "thought experiment" excuse, that will evoke laughter in U.S. technical and philosophical circles. The reaction will be rather more harsh in civics and history venues, though.

The U.S.A. is not operated by rulers through a parliament. If we allow a coup over our government, everyone on the planet will feel the bloody (and fiery) consequences.

Many people here, in the U.S., have also recently been very mistaken about the seriousness of what has been going on with our Supreme Court and judicial branch. It's not a trivial game that can be manipulated for the purpose of allowing girls or any other subgroup to play equally. And with the Constitution being an old document of wisdom, the only proper kind of Supreme Court justice is a conservative one.

In regards to the United States Constitution, to be "progressive" about it or to have any desire in favor of changing it or its meaning, is to be against it. And to be against it amounts to being an enemy against our nation.

A few thousand instructors and miseducated alumni had best try to realize the seriousness of what they're trying to do, before one of the vast majority of minds more in touch with reality makes the difficult decision in favor of another reset. The insulated class only believes from its contemporary perspective of comfort that it wants to go there. Go there, though, and there won't be another chance to recover or to do anything at all.

[FreedomPoster]

Spoken like a man who has only heard this one thing, and will judge him on this and this alone. Do as you will, but if you do that, you are selling him short.

[WASCWatch]

I think you are reading too much into this situation. He simply posted a comment without completely thinking it through. It was 2:00 a.m. Everyone occasionally says something stupid that they is totally out of character. That’s it; nothing more, nor less.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Sometimes you only have to hear one thing out of someone to see what they are about.

That is true of those who council surrender for trivial reasons.

[familyop]

I agree with most of what Dr. Peterson has taught, too, but that's beside the point in the context of the topic and situation at hand: our form and administration of government as constructed and taught by our better forefathers.

"We need him in the Culture Wars fight."

Those are not wars, and that's not a fight. That's my point. And I'm advising any relatively wiser academics, for the sake of their own good, acute and delicate sensitivities and health, to stop using such metaphors.

Do comfortable academics really want the many people more in touch with reality to start grinning and drooling at that error? Using terms of violence as metaphors, in effect, blinding oneself and one's colleagues to the consequences of trying to carry out a subversion and deposition of U.S. government, is a very dangerous error.

Spoiled people are not corrected with talk. They're only corrected with severe punishment. I don't know Karen Straughan, but she was right about not opening that door.

[familyop]

"The pro-life female that replaces RBG..."

That assumption will precede the end of civility in this country. You don't want to go there any more.

Our Supreme Court is not a game that we must allow a child of each of several foreign-minded, anti-American factions to play, the communist faction of Susan B. Anthony and Charles Fourier included.

[Balding_Eagle]

And there goes any credibility that Peterson ever thought he may have.

Peterson has made a number of political related statements before.

Everywhere else he seems to be a genius, when it comes to politics he is uninformed and stupid.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks.

[William Tell]

I have watched many Peterson videos and find him to be wise and eloquent.

His background is as a clinical psychologist and a lecturer in psychology. His focus is on the individual not on specific institutions.

Peterson's response to the Canadian law mandating the use of various pronouns was to refuse outright, even if that meant that his university would fire him or that he would go to jail.

I think he was looking at this situation with his focus on Kavanaugh's welfare and not that of his supporters.

One claim that the liberals have made is that Ford had nothing to gain by coming forward. That, of course, assumes that she doesn't benefit from frustrating the efforts of Trump and his followers to control the Supreme Court. It also ignores the adulation and other rewards that Ford gains from the liberal establishment.

If Kavanaugh were to step down it would cost me some heartburn while I pondered whether Trump and the Senate could replace him in a timely fashion without other costs. It would only cost Kavanaugh a job, albeit a job that he and similar judges view as the absolute pinnacle of a legal career.

If Kavanaugh steps down, he makes a statement that there is nothing more valuable than his good name. He demonstrates that he does not value his personal promotion above the good that comes from truth and justice. He points the finger at those who conspired and lied in their somewhat successful attempt to smear him.

I realized early on that Trump was facing what amounted to a win-win situation with this divisive process. If, has happened, Kavanaugh is confirmed, Trump wins.

If Kavanaugh had been successfully blocked then the election in November would likely result in a gain of 3 to 5 seats in the Senate, ensuring that Kavanaugh or someone else would be seated in January and that a replacement for Ginsburg would be that much easier to seat (if my dreams are realized).

[William Tell]

I think he was looking at this situation with his focus on Kavanaugh's welfare and not that of his supporters."

Clarification: I was referring to Kavanaugh's supporters.

[William Tell]

I don't claim to be an expert on Peterson, but I will provide a short summary of what I think his position is.

Peterson believes that humans have inherited traits which make them competitive and which cause them to feel inner rewards when they are successful at achieving valuable goals.

Because of these traits, humans support the creation of hierarchies of more capable achievers receiving benefits that less capable achievers don't get. With such hierarchies humans benefit individually and collectively.

But there's more. Peterson also believes that hierarchies can become tyrannical. Those lower on the ladder can be victimized by those higher up. (Think Paula Jones and Bill Clinton.) And some people will simply be so uncompetitive that they cannot survive at all. For example, a person in an iron lung might die very quickly without aid that is not tied to their ability to compete with others.

Peterson's belief is that the place of conservatives is to support the hierarchy. That of liberals is to question the treatment of those who do not benefit from the hierarchy. The healthiest society is that which peacefully exists between the two extremes. Both conservatives and liberals can go too far.

Because liberals are the ones going too far in western civilization as we speak, it appears to some that Peterson is a conservative.

[familyop]

Re. the Kavanaugh bounce...

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll [51% approve, 47% disapprove.]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3694758/posts

Another one who has written good opinions in re. the Second Amendment would do very nicely for encouraging conservative voters.

[Jonty30]

I have to use a qualifier absent any confirmation.

You are assuming motivation of the person and I am not. If he comes out and says that he meant every word, at the time he wrote it, I can say that he was definitely wrong.

He may not have meant what he wrote in the way that you think he meant it. In which case, depending on the reasons for writing that tweet, he may not have been wrong.

[dalight]

I don’t mind at all calling him out.. this was serious stupid. But, so was this threat up to that point. I have come to expect better because I have seen better here. And, frankly my assessment is as good as any.

[dalight]

Well done

[editor-surveyor]

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Soft-skulled appologist for tyranny.
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[Nifster]

Good Lord you are to making attribution....you assume sarcasm.

He openly said his comments were meant to still harsh waters. He apologized for not understanding the situation

Try searching for it.....if you aren’t on Twitter