Is Jordan Peterson The New Constantine?

My Rollercoaster Journey with the Famous Psychologist

I distinctly remember the first time I ever read the name Jordan Peterson. I was in my second year as a ‘mature’ undergrad student at Cambridge, and I was sitting in the Faculty of Divinity, reading the student newspaper, Varsity. 

According to the feature article, there was a controversial neo-Nazi who had been invited to my faculty to work on a collaborative project with my professor, Douglas Hedley. Apparently this neo-Nazi was particularly aggressive towards transgender people, probably wishing they were all dead or something like that. Thankfully, the article assured me, the student body had intervened, and managed to convince whoever was in charge that they should remove this neo-Nazi’s invitation, and they did.  

Thank goodness! I thought. How terrible it would have been for a flipping neo-Nazi to have been welcomed to conduct research at this beautiful faculty! I put the matter aside and didn’t think about him again.

Years passed, and I decided to have a go at Christian online dating. I met a variety of people, and I distinctly remember that all the best dates had one thing in common: they were all disciples of this Jordan Peterson guy.

This was weird to me, because he was supposed to be a neo-Nazi, and yet he had somehow managed to churn out a flock of men who dressed well, took me to nice places, had interesting conversations, paid the bill, showed no signs of racism or far-right ideology, and were respectful to me as a woman. What on earth was going on? 

So, I did some digging.