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> A guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast has claimed that being transgender is a “contagion” similar to “satanic ritual abuse.” > Mr Peterson told him that being trans

> A guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast has claimed that being transgender is a “contagion” similar to “satanic ritual abuse.” > Mr Peterson told him that being trans was a “sociological contagion” which he compared to “the satanic ritual abuse accusations that emerged in daycares in the 1980s.” https://web.archive.org/web/20220206173028/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/rogan-podcast-peterson-trans-contagion-b2001612.html https://web.archive.org/web/20220206173028/https://www.indep...

ericmay 5y ago
Sorry, but could you help me connect the dots here. How would a guest on Joe Rogan's podcast be relevant here? You know that both Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson are on Twitter now right? Are they forcing trans people to come out as trans? Are you suggesting that if Elon Musk takes Twitter private, that guests on Joe Rogan's podcast will be free to be on Twitter and then make trans people come out as trans? I'm really confused here. Joe Rogan has had other guests like Sanjay Gupta and Bernie Sanders on as well. Would their comments be further amplified on Twitter (or whatever you are envisioning here) as well via a similar indirect link to Elon Musk?
- davidbarker 5y ago
  I was simply pointing out to the parent commenter that Jordan Peterson does indeed have some rather negative views on trans people, and that it’s not just a narrative made by “the media”.
  - ericmay 5y ago
    I see. I was still thinking in the context of how that would apply to Twitter/Musk. Don’t think it makes a difference and Peterson is on Twitter now anyway.
  - nicky0 5y ago
    Actually you were reinforcing that this is a narrative made by the media, by quoting the exact kind of crappy media article that is pushing that very narrative.
  - mostertoaster 5y ago
    He might have negative views on trans people. But the whole blow up was because he did not think the Canadian government should force people to use the correct pronouns. He said he would use them voluntarily if someone asked him, but it was wrong to use force to require others to do so. Therefore he is a trans hater and an evil person.
nicky0 5y ago
Ah, a chopped-up, out of context quotation in a clickbait hit-piece article about a 3 hour podcast. Thanks for that. Just the kind of nuanced and thoughtful contribution I like to see.
- robonerd 5y ago
  It's exactly the amount of nuance twitter was designed for tbqh.

ericmay 5y ago

Sorry, but could you help me connect the dots here. How would a guest on Joe Rogan's podcast be relevant here? You know that both Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson are on Twitter now right? Are they forcing trans people to come out as trans? Are you suggesting that if Elon Musk takes Twitter private, that guests on Joe Rogan's podcast will be free to be on Twitter and then make trans people come out as trans? I'm really confused here. Joe Rogan has had other guests like Sanjay Gupta and Bernie Sanders on as well. Would their comments be further amplified on Twitter (or whatever you are envisioning here) as well via a similar indirect link to Elon Musk?

davidbarker 5y ago
I was simply pointing out to the parent commenter that Jordan Peterson does indeed have some rather negative views on trans people, and that it’s not just a narrative made by “the media”.
- ericmay 5y ago
  I see. I was still thinking in the context of how that would apply to Twitter/Musk. Don’t think it makes a difference and Peterson is on Twitter now anyway.
- nicky0 5y ago
  Actually you were reinforcing that this is a narrative made by the media, by quoting the exact kind of crappy media article that is pushing that very narrative.
- mostertoaster 5y ago
  He might have negative views on trans people. But the whole blow up was because he did not think the Canadian government should force people to use the correct pronouns. He said he would use them voluntarily if someone asked him, but it was wrong to use force to require others to do so. Therefore he is a trans hater and an evil person.

nicky0 5y ago

Ah, a chopped-up, out of context quotation in a clickbait hit-piece article about a 3 hour podcast. Thanks for that. Just the kind of nuanced and thoughtful contribution I like to see.

robonerd 5y ago
It's exactly the amount of nuance twitter was designed for tbqh.