Joining the esteemed ranks of the University of Austin and Prager U, Jordan Peterson will be accepting applications for his fake college, Peterson Academy, in November. It will be teaching a high level of conscientiousness
, but not so much a real curriculum, and he announces that he doesn’t need any accreditation. Instead, he angrily announces that if employers have any sense, they’ll hire his graduates, and that he’ll be teaching skills that are valuable to any employer with a clue. Hire them or else, woke moralists!
BREAKING: Jordan Peterson exacts revenge on woke moralists by creating PETERSON ACADEMY, an “online university” without accreditation. Graduating will help you get “preferential treatment” in the job market because of Peterson’s “rigorous screening work.”
Coming November 2023! pic.twitter.com/ps5j4HeDwr
— Sam Hoadley-Brill (@deonteleologist) September 27, 2023
He claims to have 30 reputable people lined up to teach courses (online, I presume?), but he won’t name any of them. He also says that it will only cost you $4000 to get a degree from Peterson Academy, although the value of that unaccredited piece of paper isn’t worth that much. It sounds exactly like a diploma mill grift, so I hope no one is seriously applying.
Those pieces of paper, if they ever end up existing, will then be worth less than they were before Peterson’s bullshit was printed on them.
Is Kent Hovind on the faculty?
The path to a ‘high level of conscientiousness’ is precisely the sales pitch of my weed dealer, and her prices are far more reasonable. . .
I dunno, I might be convinced to pay him $4000 per year for a degree – if he pays me $20000 per year to do so.
I’ll even give the place a proper left backhanded endorsement, knuckles and all.
If ya can’t beat ’em, torpedo ’em. Nevermind, just listened to the drivel in the xhit, erm, he already torpedoed himself, as usual.
Never had I ever witnessed someone so ever eager for sex, for he’s always fucking himself.
drsteve@3
And the benefits of the product she is selling have some real value, unlike his “academy”.
Yeah, this is gonna last about as long as Trump university…
Courses include “Apple Cider: The Devil’s Drink?”, “Room Cleaning 101”, and “History of Woke Moralists.”
“If you don’t sign-up for the peterson academy, I’m going to prager u!”, threatened Jordan with conscientious conviction and his fingers crossed behind his back.
I guess we should consider his peterson academy an nft and value it accordingly.
Not seeing this at all.
Hate, lies, and misogyny aren’t going to be valuable to any employers besides terrorists.
If anyone puts this Fake university on their resume or CV, any employer is justified in rejecting the applicant without reading further.
This is a scam.
A diploma from a reputable diploma mill shouldn’t cost you more than $50.
Peterson has really fallen from his once lofty perch.
At one time he was a tenured faculty member at the U. of Toronto psych department (and what is wrong with that department that they kept this fraud for that long anyway).
His clinical psychology license is also under review in Canada.
Peterson was always a pseudoscientist and a kook, it just took academia way too long to figure it out.
Now he is reduced to running obvious online scams.
He probably made a lot of money when his 15 seconds of fame kicked in so he probably got used to an expensive lifestyle and now he wants to scammy scam to continue fuel it.
A funny caption would be “Is this air?”
Naw, “What do you mean that the camera was on?!”.
Graduating will help you get “preferential treatment” in the job market because of Peterson’s “rigorous screening work.”
That kinda sounds like he’s mostly promising to provide a pre-screening service to employers, with the “students”/”applicants” paying for it (and more).
There’s a remarkable lack of information, given that they’re launching in just over a month. Shouldn’t they at least have a draft for a curriculum? Or even just a list of subjects?
If you send me $ 1000, I will explain the whole ” 42 ” business to you. The beings that manifest as white laboratory mice in our dimension will add a 40 $ surcharge.
At my new college, Feralboy University, we won’t bother with accreditation or classes or instructors. For the low, low “tuition” of $3000/year, students will get a list of stuff to think about, which they will then think about, at their own pace without outside indoctrination. There will be a test prior to graduation, which will be open book, or would be if there were books. It will be graded on a curve, and instead of letter grades there will be pictures of alligators, clowns, and Elvis.
I expect my graduates, particularly those who average Elvis or better, to get first choice of jobs available. These jobs will not involve actually doing anything, and so will be unpaid.
Start your future today!
(@9) But what about the Bush Administration Department of Justice†? Or the Air Force Academy‡? Oh, wait a minute… never mind…
My point being that there are at minimum cohorts within a lot of organizations that would treat “hate, lies, and mysogyny” as “valuable” — even when the organizations themselves aren’t terrorists (not even the Air Force Academy). This is part of what makes dealing with embedded bigotry hard: One can be simultaneously correct that “This organization is not bigoted!” and “This hiring practice for this non-bigoted organization is bigoted!”, especially when those engaged in that hiring practice are trying to reshape the organization to fit their own, nonorganizational priorities.
† Side note: Ms Goodling got her JD from Liberty University, and was only “reprimanded” by her state bar because she had testified in front of Congress under an imposed grant of immunity. The most-damning stuff was inside that grant of immunity.
‡ Disclosure: At the time this story first broke, I had known then-Capt Morton (whose “low” rank reflected the peculiarities of promotions in the chaplain system) for over two decades, and about 60% of the USAFA officials involved for varying periods. I had significant, direct exposure to two predecessors of this particular fiasco. So I’m not a disinterested evaluator here — but I’ll call out hate, lies, and misogyny regardless of that.
Oh, THAT is going to end well…
@ 17, I thought the Academies of rape and mayhem were reassigned to the Merchant Marine and Coast Guard Academies?
The USAF Academy finally being beaten into submission by Congress, who was finally spurred into action by an enraged populace.
And yeah, the Chaplain Corps does have a phenomenally slow promotion rate, otherwise all of the chaplains would likely be full generals in their dotage. But, most can punch far outside of their weight class for many refractory issues that involve troop mental health and welfare. I’ve had to utilize them, when command blew off even command level surgeons.
Few commanders at any level want to piss off the service Chaplain General.
@3 drsteve
And your weed dealer has an actual product.
@16
…I want an Elvis+ GPA…
@20 And your weed dealer has certainly done some product testing.
Does his course require an E-Meter?
@LykeX
“Shouldn’t they at least have a draft for a curriculum? Or even just a list of subjects?”
Well, of course there will be required reading of Dr. Jordan Peterson’s books.
As always, you are underestimating Peterson. He’s gone right past the “going direct to the employers” step and jumped directly to “just send me money.”
@wzrd1 12
That’s a rational problem.
I take offense! Since when have I been rational? :P
How dare you diss the master of the INVISIBLE RUBIKS CUBE!!!
xohjoh2n, heh. Nice.
Does Jordan know what metaphorical means?
“Revenge” on “woke moralists” (who?) huh?
How exactly?
The Force I teach you will.
Yoda, Peterson is not.
Transphobic, silly, fool is he. Bigotry does not make him great. More Sith than Jedi JP is.. Twisted and evil – and weak in the Force.
OT
Just in : Senator Diane Feinstein has died.
She was 90 years old.
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Whoa, four grand is a bargain! Texas-based Institute for Creation Research offers a “masters” of “science” “education” for a whopping $12,000, for a degree that’s not recognized in Texas.
I hope Peterson has a good lawyer on retainer, because you can be sure his “school” will eventually lead to a lawsuit.
In the untied states with all these rtwingnut xtianterrorists education has mostly been replaced by indoctrination. (and no that wasn’t a type these states are untied in many ways)
Couldn’t someone wags crowdsource the fees, attend, and (to use the UK-centric expression) rip the absolute colossal piss out of it?
In the old days of The Interwebs, before “troll” became (mistakenly) used to describe griefers and harassers, good old-fashioned trolls would be all over this. Mocking the absolute donkey jumping fuck out of the whole project. I think this is a terrible loss of a proper tradition. Whither good, honest values?
Louis