He's definitely in the pantheon of most embarrassing and downright stupid Canadian media pundits in existence today--along with Jordan Peterson, Faith Goldy, Ezra Levant and a few others whose names escape me right now.
.....Peterson is a good and proper head and shoulders above those other losers. Not even comparable. You clearly haven't listened to anything he's been on about if you're comparing him to Murphy, Levant, and Goldy and are basing your opinion on a reactionary emotional response to very select things you've been told about the dude by the usual suspects.
I'm not even a fan of his but you're just embarrassing yourself here.
Your both right, sort of! LOL
I don't know him as a friend at all, but we briefly met, and argued, some time ago............so far as I'm concerned, he lost.
*****
First off, he certainly can't be characterized as racist, or misogynist, so let's set that type of Faith-Goldy Association aside.
Second, let's be clear that 'stupid' as the word is normally used is entirely inappropriate in Peterson's case. He can be articulate, knowledgeable and highly analytical.
Now, let's address the other shoe.........he does have very large intellectual blind spots. So far as I know his 'faith' is sincere, and entirely inconsistent w/the science he would otherwise cite.
He knows this, and simply writes it off.
Further, he often gets his facts right, but his conclusions wrong. He has rightly argued, for instance, that the 'gender pay gap' is not a function of discrimination by employers, to any great extent (at least not based on sex, per se)
He does a good job correctly explaining why those gaps occur (home gender roles, parental leave, male selfishness, but also male's lesser risk aversion/greater self-confidence, misplaced or otherwise).
He then wrongly concludes that that is all just fine, so the pay gap need not be addressed further.
He is very hyperbole prone; and to be clear he is the definition of a provocateur, not to mention a self-promoter.
That's not all bad, I rather enjoy poking lazy thinkers myself.
But, it does lead to a tendency to say things he doesn't entirely believe in order to generate controversy that will boost his profile and book sales.
He is also very prone to a dichotomous world view (see things in black and white, more than shades of grey); something I consider a serious intellectual sin.