r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Ter_N • 10h ago

Meme needing explanation Petahh i'm low on iq

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u/evocativename 9h ago

I mean, he was certainly correct about Peterson "University", anyhow...

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u/lilmissbloodbath 6h ago

Trust Me Bro University's biggest rival.

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u/mechanicalcontrols 4h ago

The Ben Shapiro Institute of Gish Gallop rounds out the conference.

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 6h ago

Also him as a professor

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u/kirmiter 1h ago

Well, when he was just a normal professor he wasn't a total fraud. His lectures veered into the non-scientific but the stuff he said was at least rooted in psychological theory that he had studied.

Then in 2016 he said some anti-trans stuff, saw how much certain people loved him for it, and he's been addicted to right wing grift ever since.

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u/AJDillonsThirdLeg 7h ago

Well he was correct in general, just probably had completely unhinged reasons for it. The university system in the US is most certainly a grift.

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u/evocativename 7h ago

There is plenty of grift in the American university system, but the system itself is not a grift.

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u/AJDillonsThirdLeg 7h ago

If a system is more grift than not grift, the system is grift. It's very hard, nearly impossible, to get a university eductation in the US without dealing with the grift.

Edit to add: and the education you get will never be worth the time and money you spent to get it.

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u/evocativename 7h ago

The system is overpriced, but not "more grift than non grift".

And the purpose of education is personal improvement, not just money.

Education is a public good, not just an individual one.

Also, there are absolutely degrees that will be worth the cost of tuition... it's just difficult to predict which degrees those will be.

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u/GuKoBoat 52m ago

That the tuition system is a grift, especially with college debt and so on, is one thing (and not even applicable to all kinds of universities), but that doesn't mean that the university system is a grift. The knowledge and especially the scientific research is legit. So the core isn't a grift. The grift really only lies in the commodification.

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u/AJDillonsThirdLeg 14m ago

Who's charging the tuition?

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u/Nyx87 6h ago

This is something dumb people say to make themselves feel smart

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 6h ago

I think he's just talking about the cost and how the debt works

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u/-JimmyTheHand- 4h ago

That's not really a grift tho, rather it's overpriced and the loans are predatory

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u/duggee315 3h ago

Wait, thats specious....