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Debunking "The Times" hit-piece on Jordan Peterson
Alaric Naude's Website ^ | 2/28/2021 | Alaric Naude

Posted on 03/06/2021 8:02:33 PM PST by tbw2

I first came into contact with Jordan Peterson a few years ago, before he became ill.

I was stressed and not knowing who to talk to I wrote to him not expecting a reply. Yet, to my surprise I not only received a reply but also support that helped me through my issue.

It makes a poignant illustration about the type of person he is.

I do remain thankful and as a result, while I am really no one of any note, I feel I must plainly point out the propaganda and slander against him by Decca Aitkenhead of “The Times”.

The Times and this so called journalist ought well look in the mirror and hang their heads in utmost shame.

It should be pointed out that The Times contacted Peterson promising to give a fair account and not to use flashy, cliché headlines. They lied on both accounts, bringing into serious doubt that anything they produced can be called journalism.

The headline reads “Jordan Peterson on his depression, drug dependency and Russian rehab hell”, if it sounds like a cheap supermarket tabloid style heading, it is only because the article is of the same low calibre.

Apparently, reality and facts are both optional for The Times and Aitkenhead, their ethics, non-existent. Original text in italics, explanations follow each section. It is long because the original literary flotsam itself is long.

We begin….

(Excerpt) Read more at naude.eu ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education
KEYWORDS: academia; alaricnaude; books; deccaaitkenhead; jordanpeterson; literature

1 posted on 03/06/2021 8:02:33 PM PST by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Debunking “The Times” hit-piece on Jordan Peterson
http://www.naude.eu/debunking-the-times-hit-piece-on-jordan-peterson.html


2 posted on 03/06/2021 8:02:53 PM PST by tbw2
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To: tbw2; Jamestown1630

What’s his illness? I heard that he was very distraught over his wife’s diagnosis and was prescribed benzodiazapines to relax, after which he developed a dependency. Is that what the author means?


3 posted on 03/06/2021 8:07:15 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: tbw2
The Times contacted Peterson promising to give a fair account and not to use flashy, cliché headlines. They lied on both accounts,

The hell you say! What's next? The Earth is going to orbit the Sun?

4 posted on 03/06/2021 8:07:29 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: tbw2

I think Decca is on the right. No, not the Right.

5 posted on 03/06/2021 8:14:58 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: monkeyshine

I’ve never followed him very closely; but apparently, he contracted Covid last summer after previously suffering pneumonia some months before:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson#Health_problems


6 posted on 03/06/2021 8:15:29 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: tbw2

Bkmk


7 posted on 03/06/2021 8:31:09 PM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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To: tbw2

“The Times... promised to give a fair account.”

Yes, that is what they do: promise to be fair and balanced. The selfish media always break their promise. The Times, CNN, and the SF Chronicle are empty, tax-supported places for losers who cannot get a real job.


8 posted on 03/06/2021 8:33:18 PM PST by Falconspeed
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To: monkeyshine

He became physically dependent on clonazepam, a benzodiazepene. After reading Peterson’s description of his withdrawal process, I would NEVER consider taking the drug. Withdrawal from heroin addiction sounds like a walk in the park compared to withdrawal from clonazepam. It almost killed him. The medical care he received in the United States failed to improve his condition, so he sought help in Russia and Yugoslavia. He recovered while in Yugoslavia.


9 posted on 03/06/2021 8:37:25 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: monkeyshine

He contracted akathisia as a side effect of the medication, and it made him suicidal. His daughter Mikayla (sp?) vlogs and did a lengthy critique of the hateful, slanted and dishonest interview that is the topic of this thread.


10 posted on 03/06/2021 8:48:07 PM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: tbw2

The NY Times is dead. It is an ex-newspaper.


11 posted on 03/06/2021 9:19:52 PM PST by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: tbw2

Bkmk


12 posted on 03/06/2021 9:31:49 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: monkeyshine

He nearly died during drug rehab to come off the combination of anti-depressants and other psychiatric drugs he was taking. But he was never diagnosed as schizophrenic.


13 posted on 03/06/2021 9:37:48 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Paladin2

that about says it all right there.


14 posted on 03/06/2021 9:42:15 PM PST by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: tbw2

Read later.


15 posted on 03/07/2021 4:34:02 AM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Paladin2

I find this very sad. Decca left her husband to live with then marry Tony the guy in the picture. Tony was a small time criminal but turned his life around. While vacationing in Jamaica Tony drowned while trying to save their son. The son survived but blames himself for Tony’s death. A short time after that Decca got breast cancer. Her utter lack of empathy for the subject f tha article is heartless and ama ng.


16 posted on 03/07/2021 7:22:34 AM PST by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: carcraft

I agree...

Decca is troubled in many ways. Some of her own doing, some not.


17 posted on 03/07/2021 7:30:01 AM PST by Paladin2
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