Jordan Peterson Put Himself on a Much-Needed Twitter Time-Out

It’s a bitter pill when you try to troll the libs but get dunked on

Mitchell Peterson
7 min readMay 21, 2022
Photo by Jeremy Bezanger on Unsplash

Unfortunately, Jordan Peterson is still out there rambling to live audiences, giving unsolicited and unhinged rants on podcasts, weeping in every single appearance, and has been tweeting his thumbs off.

I’ve made my thoughts on the man public on numerous occasions, and recently met with a friend who loves him, and we had a very fun back and forth while getting a hefty gin buzz. I’ve admitted there could be some value drawn from his personal development riff-raff, but overall believe he’s a massive net negative. In my opinion, writer Nathan Robinson said it best, “If Jordan Peterson is the most influential intellectual in the Western world, the Western world has lost its damn mind.”

But it’s a free country, he has every right to spew his nonsense wherever people want to hear it, and he’s going to continue his chaotic senseless speeches bouncing hectically from Stalin to God to radical feminism to freedom to all-meat diets while zoned-out audiences try their best to follow the long-forgotten thread.

But he won’t be as active on Twitter.

After a slate of recent controversies and murderous ratio-ing, he is taking a break from the…

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Mitchell Peterson

Freelance writer who spent nine years outside the US, currently in rural America writing the Substack bestseller 18 Uncles.