A part of it is that psychology is seen as a kind of left wing science by a lot of chuds. A lot of findings of psychology go against their preconceived notions of how you should treat other people, and yourself. Don't beat kids. Don't make fun of fat people to make them healthier. Trans people are helped more by transitioning than by trying to squash their transness out of them. Believing wholeheartedly in western masculinity is harmful to men. Etc
JBP is "their guy" in that space. This is necessary because a lot of them believe in the aesthetics of science. While psychology has a lot of problems as a science, a lot of its conclusions are based on data. Thus they need a psych daddy to tell them that no, the science is on their side.
Anyway, I think that's part of it.
Another is he was outspoken as an academic (which again, is seen as "left wing") when the pronouns thing was the flavour of the day
Another is he was outspoken as an academic (which again, is seen as “left wing”) when the pronouns thing was the flavour of the day
That might be the linchpin. Furthermore, this is why I refuse to take any outcry on "cancel culture" seriously. Being canceled was a net positive for the internet's favorite people. The only person I could think of that got successfully canceled was....Bill Nye. For not screeching that God hates the gay people and the trans people. No one could really handle that.
Yeah, that was definitely the main one. Right place at the right time. I just wanted to offer some other thoughts about psychology and therapy and stuff
A part of it is that psychology is seen as a kind of left wing science by a lot of chuds. A lot of findings of psychology go against their preconceived notions of how you should treat other people, and yourself. Don't beat kids. Don't make fun of fat people to make them healthier. Trans people are helped more by transitioning than by trying to squash their transness out of them. Believing wholeheartedly in western masculinity is harmful to men. Etc
JBP is "their guy" in that space. This is necessary because a lot of them believe in the aesthetics of science. While psychology has a lot of problems as a science, a lot of its conclusions are based on data. Thus they need a psych daddy to tell them that no, the science is on their side.
Anyway, I think that's part of it.
Another is he was outspoken as an academic (which again, is seen as "left wing") when the pronouns thing was the flavour of the day
That might be the linchpin. Furthermore, this is why I refuse to take any outcry on "cancel culture" seriously. Being canceled was a net positive for the internet's favorite people. The only person I could think of that got successfully canceled was....Bill Nye. For not screeching that God hates the gay people and the trans people. No one could really handle that.
Yeah, that was definitely the main one. Right place at the right time. I just wanted to offer some other thoughts about psychology and therapy and stuff