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I don't need to put words in Peterson's mouth to find reasons to distrust him. In fact, it's in trying to force him to cop to these ties to reactionary politics that Peterson's detractors most commonly misstep because Peterson's signature rhetorical move is to avoid strong prescriptive claims about anything. So you'll never see him say anything as clear as 'sexual harassment is an inevitable consequence of a modern coed society.' He'll simply lay out a collection observable facts that lead you to that conclusion and then accuse you of being unfair or hysterical if you call him on it. You don't need to straw man Peterson to see a problem here.

I think our skepticism of Peterson should be informed by his dubious commitment to making sure the things he's telling his audience is right and the fact that he doesn't seem to mind that he's being co-opted by fringe conservative ideologies, including members of the Alt right, and getting pulled into their spheres of influence by people who find his arguments and most importantly his respectability useful for the purpose of laundering their own less savory ideas for general consumption. Peterson must know how his public image is changing, yet he does nothing to address those trends or assert that he is not an Alt. Right ally in their culture war against the left. Why?
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