looks like etiolate's goal in creating a controversial thread was extremely successful
Yes, because those are the things Jordan fucking Peterson is known for.
They're not, but look: you were mocking the claim that Jordan Peterson isn't right wing. Besides the fact that collapsing people into one of two ideologies along a single political spectrum is totally inadequate, I was pointing out that even if you tried to you'd get a lot of contradictions. People on the right love him because he criticizes the political left but that's a temporary alignment on social issues, not an accurate or by any means complete characterization. So when you say "but no. 1 with right wingers, go figure," well, that's on you to go figure that out, actually.
You seem to defend a lot of these types of people (Peterson, Damore, etc)for some reason...
You're going to have to help me figure out what "these types of people" means. I mean that, and I hope you don't find that tedious. The last time I "defended" Damore, I was just pointing out that I thought the ruling's verbiage was inane. I don't think he made a good argument though and I also don't think he did a good or socially smart thing. In short I support his firing or at least some kind of punishment.
Peterson is different because I find myself enamored with him intellectually. I remember reading hungrynoob posting something that read close to a religious experience some time ago and it seemed rather stupid and silly. And then I tried looking him up and my first exposure to him was this video where he said ideology leads to genocide and I immediately dismissed him because it was such a reductive and uninteresting argument. And boring, too! But his name kept popping up and then this interview thing happened so of course I had to figure out why the fuck this guy had a fucking religious cult that seemed to be entirely composed of right wing manchildren and red pilled losers. Well, the short story is that I haven't been so invigorated philosophically and intellectually since I first read Dostoyevsky's Notes From Underground when I was 14, or George Orwell's Politics and the English Language. (I'm also uneducated, so it's not like I have a lot of exposure to anything of real caliber anyway, so don't think I'm comparing him to these two or anyone important at all. I'm just saying that, relatively speaking, I have found him important.)
Probably a shorter and better answer is that I utterly despise misrepresentation for political ends. It doesn't matter where or to whom it's happening.