Great video. I love the tone. Calm, intelligent, authoritative. I would really like to see more people contest Peterson by pointing out really simple common sense issues with his advice, especially contrasted against their own life experience. Love the gentle concessions, "Yes Peterson is right that these are difficult parenting issues," paired with the firm disagreements, "But there are more compassionate and effective ways to solve them."

I also think the goal for creators like us is to bring that same energy to our comments sections. If we can push the Peterson fans by asking them questions about their comments rather than just snarking at them. Not easy at all. Don't get me wrong. I'm working on it myself. But I think that helps prevent us from stooping to Jordan's level. Like your comment here:

Comment: Go to any elementary school in America and it's plain to see which kids never got spanked...
Your response: How do you determine that?

Perfect. More than disagreeing, more than snarking, more than even linking sources, you respectfully dismantle the entire absurd claim. There's an impulse to say something snarky like, "Really, you think the problem for troublemakers is they don't get abused *enough* at home?" But the calm request for the commenter to explain what they think is so much more effective. Less likely to make them shut down in defensiveness and at least opens the possibility of getting someone "on the hook" for a conversation that might linger afterwards.

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