Justin Ward
1 min readDec 17, 2019

--

Actually, people like Jordan Peterson are the real defenders of the status quo. Peterson thinks defending socially conservative values that have been dominant forever against the “cultural Marxist elites” makes him a rebel.

He thinks he’s somehow being silenced by the “mainstream media” despite the fact he is massively successful in part due to countless puff pieces that ratify this mediocrity’s position as a culturally important public figure.

It’s a great grift, honestly. I respect his hustle.

I wish I could get rubes to pay $120/year to rant incoherently about how Disney’s Frozen is subverting traditional feminine archetypes.

Anyhoo, if you don’t like my opinions, go over to Thinkspot and shell out $25 a month to hear a self-styled philosopher give hour-long sermons titled “Marcus Aurelius, MMA and the New Masculinity” or some other warmed-over pseudointellectual horseshit that you nerds eat up with a spoon

--

--

Justin Ward
Justin Ward

Written by Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD

Responses (1)