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What is he whining about? I'd love some context.
This is what I found via Backwards Image Search https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/jordan-peterson-breaks-down-into-tears-on-piers-morgan-show/
I don't know much about this guy so I might regret asking. Why is getting emotional about being a father figure for many people something to meme and bully?
The guy is a pseudo-intellectual who became famous with your usual right wing stuff (society is collapsing, the wokes are destroying everything, we need to fight the neocultural marxists), and providing self-help tips for people to take responsibility for themselves etc.
That second part is important because when sufficiently pushed, a lot of his fans will say that they just like his self-help stuff because it helped them go through some periods, become better etc. But it's rarely just that, most of his fans go on to watch his talks and take his words seriously since he earned some credance with them with the self-help tips.
And then this supposedly highly intelligent professor goes on to provide some stability to this insane world by saying things like (off the top of my head): Bill C-16 will make the state send people to prison for using the wrong pronouns, but he will resist and go on a hunger strike when that happens! Women and men cannot work together in the same teams! Women are hypocrites if they complain about sexual harassment while wearing makeup! Hitler's views were guided by the crowds attending his speeches, he just adapted to what they wanted to hear! Climate change models are faulty apriori because you cannot model everything, etc etc.
Then, as others already mentioned, he went to Russia to get into an induced coma to break his addiction.
He's presenting himself and being presented as a good father figure, an accomplished academic, a voice of reason in a world gone insane, whereas he is just plain nuts. And his base is primarily vulnerable young people who have nobody to turn to, and he uses that to make them into your everyday incels, misogynists and other right wing wierdos.
So you can see that when someone like that goes onto camera to cry for the 10th time, the initial reaction of others might not be sympathy.
AFAIK he developed a crippling addiction to benzodiazepines and the cure was so intense that it actually seems to have driven him around the bend.
I know this from watching YouTube clips about his issues, but that's a couple of years ago now
He's always been awful (he got famous in Canada by making wild claims about bill C-16 when all it really did was add gender identity to the list of protected classes for the purposes of human rights legislation) but he definitely got worse after his trip to Russia.
He talks a lot about personal responsibility but when it came time to kick his benzo addiction, instead of taking personal responsibility and dealing with the withdrawal symptoms, he tried to convince his doctors to put him into an induced coma. They refused because they didn't think it was safe or ethical, so he flew to Russia where it's easier to find doctors who are less picky about safety and ethics. I'm convinced the coma gave him brain damage because he's been way more unhinged ever since.
Or getting his way by brute force afforded to him by wealth furthered his belief he knows better than experts. So much for those hypocritic oath people (more like hypocritic woke people). The people with no ethics who will do whatever I tell them for money are the true intellectuals.
It's not "getting emotional about being a father figure", whatever you mean by that.
It's Jordan Peterson, a horrible human being. One of his main beliefs is that women should adopt traditional roles and men should lead, and he justifies that with vague things like saying that women score higher in negative emotions. So, it's perfectly fair to dunk on him for losing control of his emotions in a video interview.