Jordan Peterson SLAMS Jagmeet Singh over 'oppression and victimization' mentality

On Wednesday, Dr. Jordan Peterson scrutinized New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh's post for Equal Pay Day.

Singh posted that "in Canada, women must work 15.5 months to earn what men make in 12 months. Economic injustices disproportionately impact women who are Indigenous, racialized, living with disabilities, and LGBTQI2S+."

"On Equal Pay Day, we must continue to demand economic justice for all women," Singh concluded.

Peterson responded to Singh's tweet with one of his own, saying: "You just can't help it, can you @theJagmeetSingh. Everything is oppression and victimization with you, always. Men work longer hours, outside, in more dangerous jobs, in STEM fields, with more travel, etc. but for you it's unidimensional: discrimination and domination."

Peterson has broken down the gender pay gap on multiple occasions, including during his famous interview with Sky News' Cathy Newman.

"Multivariate analysis of the pay gap indicates that it doesn't exist," said Peterson.

When Newman touched on the 9 percent pay gap between men and women, Peterson said that there were "multiple reasons for that. One of them is gender, but it's not the only reason. If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis. They say, 'well, women in the aggregate are paid less than men.' So we break it down by age, break it down by occupation, break it down by interest, break it down by personality.

"The claim that the wage gap is between men and women is only due to sex is wrong. There's no doubt about that, the multivariate analysis have been done."

Peterson expanded on this idea in an 2018 interview with British GQ journalist Helen Lewis who said that the world existed in a system of male dominance.

"Yeah, but that's not my sense of the patriarchy. In what sense is our society male dominated?" Peterson asked.

"The fact that the vast majority of wealth is owned by men, the vast majority of capital is owned by men, women do more unpaid labour," said Lewis.

"It's a very tiny proportion of men and a huge proportion of people who are seriously disaffected by men, most people in prison are men, most people who are on the street are men, most victims of violent crime are men, most people who commit suicide are men, most people who die in wars are men, people who do worse in school are men, it's like, where's the dominance here precisely.

"What you're doing is taking a tiny substrata of hyper-successful men and using that the represent the entire structure of the western society. There's nothing about that that's vaguely appropriate," Peterson said.

"There's an asymmetry in all sorts of places, but that doesn't mean that western culture is a male-dominated patriarchy," he added.