Jordan Peterson doesn't understand postmodernism

In this video I use the terms "postmodernism" and "postmodern philosophy" to refer to late 20th century philosophies that reject the presuppositions of modern philosophy, universal meta-narratives, universal values, essentialism and the like, which includes philosophers such as Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze.

Here are the full Jordan Peterson clips I show in the video:

Here's my analysis of Sonic Adventure 2, which involves a brief explanation of binary deconstructions:

[TheSilentFool]

Just a quick thing about Zizek:

In the clip where he's showing the portrait of Stalin in his house he's explaining that he doesn't keep it hung up there and that he just puts it up for guests as a means of being needlessly inflammatory.

[pslanez]

The fact people disagree on what post-modernism means is in itself the best example of post-modernism.

[HeckaLives]

"Your iPhone wouldn't work without physics. Checkmate, Marxists." - Jordan Peterson

[Unidentified_Entity]

maybe the was the friends we made along the way

[tjona]

From the famous philosopher
"It doesn't matter who's wrong or right
Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it"
Michael Jackson

[passageenBleu]

The lesson we need to learn: Research what people say. I did that and found Derrida saying to me something very different to what Peterson was suggesting Derrida said.

[korona]

Peterson uses Marxism as a catch-all term to mean "resentful left wing people".

[anegrey]

Yeah I always felt like Peterson wasn’t critiquing the actual postmodernists, but just like the soupy contradictory mix of ideas that the typical undergrad has trying to average out all the texts they are reading

[driedgrams]

I disliked this video 2 years ago, now I know how wrong I was.

[stardustman]

Manray: This is Posmodernism.
Peterson: Yup
Manray : A philosophy that rejects historical materialism, class conflict, dialectical progression of history and a worker's revolution.
Peterson: Yep.
Manray : Things that marxism is known for.
Peterson : Makes sense to me.
Manray: So there you have it!
Peterson : Posmodernism is Marxism in disguise.
Manray : *Sends him to gulag*

[officialmasqq_]

The fact that Peterson can't cite certain thinkers without referring to them as "treacherous" or some other variation of the term tells you exactly what kind of public intellectual he is

[karlmarx]

The Stalin thing is a joke, Zizek thinks Stalin was an idiot. Just saying.

[JeffRebornNow]

Peterson is a lightweight. The people who listen to him have never opened a philosophy book in their lives.

[Agos]

This is the last Jordan Peterson video of yours I'm gonna watch... every time I watch one my recommended videos get flooded with goddamn Peterson videos for days lol

[ненад-]

In former socialist Yugoslavia, the prominent communist Milovan Djilas denounced Marxism and become postmodernist.
So he was expelled from the party.

[muhammadyaseen]

i think the essence of postmodernism is that no one knows what it is

[donjuansohn]

He continually confuses campus activism with theory. Straw men all the way. It's like he based his argument on some SJW-manifesto rather than the writings of Foucault and Derrida.

[TheChowitzer]

When you don't know what postmodernism is, so you decide that it's Marxism because you don't know what that is either

[MCMLXXXIX]

Shoulda seen my conservative friend’s face when I told him South Park is post modern.

[ME-gsyn]

People often forget that JP is only educated in psychology. He isn’t a philosopher and he isn’t a political theorist. His understanding of both subjects is genuinely below the standard demanded by an undergraduate degree.