Jordan Peterson Thinks The New Red Skull Is Based On Him

April 6th, 2021 - 10:26 AM EDT by Adam Downer

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Psychologist Jordan Peterson is currently processing the idea that Red Skull, a villain in the Captain America universe, may be based on him in a recent Captain America issue written by author and Atlantic contributor Ta-Nehisi Coates.

He may very well be right: in the issue, Captain America talks about a young boy "disappearing into the internet" and coming out with a "new theory of the world," fed to him by Red Skull. The next panel shows a still of what Red Skull's internet content looks like. It shows him offering the "Ten Rules For Life" (Peterson's book is called The Twelve Rules For Life) with sections "Chaos and Order," "Karl Lueger's Genius" and "The Feminist Trap."

"(Skull) tells them what they've always longed to hear," says Captain America. "That they are secretly great. That the whole world's against them. That if they're truly men, they'll fight back. And bingo. That's their purpose. That's what they live for and that's what they'll die for."

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After the panel was brought to Peterson's attention by a fan, he posted several tweets bewildered at the implied analogy between himself and Red Skull.


Others less sympathetic to Peterson found the comparison and Peterson's confusion more humorous.


Coates, who is not on Twitter, has yet to respond to the situation.

Correction: An earlier version of this article identified Peterson as a philosopher. It has been changed to correctly identify Peterson as a psychologist.


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A Concerned Rifleman
A Concerned Rifleman

>Marvel continues to hire from the same self-perpetuating pool of radical ideologues that have infested the industry like a particularly aggressive strain of Ebola and with a similar chance of survival.
>Marvel continues to hemorrhage money like it got punctured straight through the Aorta
>Marvel continues to fail to connect the cause and effect of their actions

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