{"id":389471,"date":"2018-12-17T15:47:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/thus-spake-the-lobster-shagger\/"},"modified":"2018-12-17T15:47:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:47:19","slug":"thus-spake-the-lobster-shagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/thus-spake-the-lobster-shagger\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Thus spake the lobster shagger\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.12\/thumbnail\/5c17b30bfc7e93c5438b4610.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Superstar clinical psychologist and clean room advocate Jordan Peterson has irked the British left after tweeting a link to an article critical of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, with the caption: \u201celect him at your peril.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Peterson, who regularly attacks left wing ideologies and references \u2018cultural Marxism\u2019 \u2013 a theory which has been labelled anti-Semitic \u2013 linked to an article in the online magazine Quillette.<\/p>\n<p>The piece, penned by Tomiwa Owolade, attacked Corbyn over his foreign policy in which he has engaged with figures and groups considered persona non-grata by the Western establishment.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/444717-zizek-jordan-peterson-pinker\/\">READ MORE: Philosopher fight: Slavoj Zizek attacks Jordan Peterson and Steven Pinker at Cambridge Union<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/444717-zizek-jordan-peterson-pinker\/\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Following his tweet, Peterson was soon attacked by luminaries of the Corbyn-supporting left, with Novara Media\u2019s Ash Sarkar and her colleague Michael Walker leading the charge.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the critical tweets centered around Peterson\u2019s much discussed use of lobster\u2019s social relations compared to human hierarchies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">looking forward to Corbyn winning and you making a weepy, hackneyed Disney analogy about it<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robrousseau\/status\/1074394740198658048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">See Jordan I&#8217;m a huge fan. But tbh this Tory government is the one that has turned Britain into shambles. The UK does need a swing to the left. Corbyn might be too much but at least he&#8217;d pay attention to much of our neglected public services.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tristan HBE (@TristanHBE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TristanHBE\/status\/1074316264481411075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jordan &#8220;The centrist&#8221; Peterson finds time to denigrate Corbyn but has never uttered a word about the moral bankruptcy of the Tories since they&#8217;ve been in power. You&#8217;re a right-wing charlatan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brouhaha (@Pie_EyedPiper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pie_EyedPiper\/status\/1074322412865490944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>While Peterson has claimed to be a \u2018classic British liberal\u2019 he draws plenty of support from right-wing supporters in part due to his critiques of feminism, LGBTQ activists and political correctness.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time Peterson has attacked the Labour leader, tweeting earlier in the year: <em>\u201cWhy is Jeremy Corbyn so willing to overlook human rights abuses in Iran?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/subscribe\/\" id=\"subscribe-focus\">Subscribe<\/a> to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won\u2019t tell you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/446696-jordan-peterson-jeremy-corbyn\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superstar clinical psychologist and clean room advocate Jordan Peterson has irked the British left after tweeting a link to an article critical of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, with the caption: \u201celect him at your peril.\u201d Peterson, who regularly attacks left wing ideologies and references \u2018cultural Marxism\u2019 \u2013 a theory which has been labelled anti-Semitic \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":389472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}