[July 27, 2026] In America, and likely the rest of the West, a subtle but alarming cultural shift is underway right in front of us. A number of influential voices now claim that a specific list of traits is indicative of ‘racism.’ Jordan Peterson addresses this claim in a recent post on X.
What distinguishes Peterson is that, unlike many of his critics, his views rest on clinical psychology informed by decades of work with thousands of patients. His insights are not purely academic; they are grounded in extensive practical experience.
The “unflattering” traits listed as characteristic of white culture—even white supremacy culture—by institutions such as the Smithsonian share one fundamental psychological feature in common: They are all indications of—are you ready for it—the Big Five trait conscientiousness. Conscientiousness is the best known personality predictor of life success after general cognitive ability (otherwise known as intelligence). — Prof. Jordan Peterson
Regular readers of my website will immediately notice how closely the Stoic ideas I have presented align with Professor Peterson’s views—views for which I regularly make space. I regard him as a bright light in the darkness of an academia that, despite abundant funding, has failed to give our young a valuable education.
Here’s something truly funny in the darkest possible manner.
The “unflattering” traits listed as characteristic of white culture—even white supremacy culture—by institutions such as the Smithsonian share one fundamental psychological feature in common:
They are all indications… pic.twitter.com/F7DmWCdNIm
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) July 26, 2026
The chart from the National Museum of African American History (NMAAH), published in 2020, was taken in part from “Talking About Race” and closely adapted from Judith H. Katz, Some Aspects and Assumptions of White Culture in the United States. I do recommend her chart, which goes into greater detail and only reinforces Prof. Peterson’s correct judgment about the failure of these “leftists” to realize the deleterious impact this will have on young non-whites.
“We need the museum to CLEAN HOUSE! Director Hartig must be fired, most staff must be fired, replace them with people who revere American history!” – U.S. Representative Brandon Gill
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump could soon PURGE the Smithsonian Museum staff after it was exposed to be running by rabid left-wingers who hate American history
REP. BRANDON GILL: “We need the museum CLEAN HOUSE! Director Hartig must be fired, most staff must be fired, replace them… pic.twitter.com/m0RcEk0ZaA
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 25, 2026
Rep. Brandon Gill just laid it out clearly: the museum is being run by people who openly hate American history. He says Director Hartig needs to go, most of the staff needs to go, and they should be replaced with people who actually revere this country’s history.
Well said.
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The anti-Americans need to go. Deport them all to Cuba. I’m sure they’ll just love their “tolerant” dictatorship.
🤡 This is crazy. 🤡
Peterson nails it: those Smithsonian traits are simply conscientiousness, the personality factor that most reliably predicts success after intelligence itself. Labeling hard work, punctuality, objective thinking, and delayed gratification as “white supremacy culture” is not scholarship; it is an ideological attack on the very habits that lift people out of poverty regardless of race. The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s 2020 chart, borrowed from Judith Katz, did lasting damage by telling young Black and Brown Americans that the tools of achievement somehow belong to someone else. Institutions that teach children to distrust order, excellence, and personal responsibility are not fighting racism—they are manufacturing failure. Representative Brandon Gill is right: Director Hartig and the activist staff who pushed this material need to go. A national museum exists to preserve and honor the American story, not to pathologize the cultural strengths that made the country prosperous. Stoicism and clinical psychology both affirm the same truth Peterson states: conscientiousness is not oppression; it is competence. When museums invert that truth, they abandon education for propaganda. Taxpayers did not fund the Smithsonian so it could teach the next generation that ambition is suspect. Clean house, restore historical honesty, and stop confusing virtue with vice.
TJ, I haven’t seen you on lately. Thanks for the great response. I’m glad that Dr. Peterson and Gen. Satterfield are on top of this. Disgusting.
This is where the leftist Democrat Party is taking us, down the path that says whatever makes us productive, useful, and plentiful is …. RACIST. Crazy? Yes!!!!! Dems have finally gone full nuts. They are full on mentally ill, or as Gen. Satterfield would say, they have the “woke mind virus.” And to get rid of that virus requires some serious intervention. Am I surprised at this? Not at all. When you start believing your own propaganda (in this case that ‘whitey’ is racist) then everything that follows (virtue signaling and moral superiority) comes easily, regardless of the truth. And telling the truth gets you cancelled, and your family threatened. We see this everywhere nowadays. If you vote, which you should, then never vote for a Democrat because right behind them — even if they deny it — is the devil waiting to crush you. Stand with good and against their evils.
… SHOCKING …. MUCH OF THE WOKE IS “WRONG”
This article by Gen. Satterfield is right on the money. Wokeness did start under Obama and grew worse under Biden. Those leaders pushed ideas that turn people against our own history (and each other). The Smithsonian chart is a clear example of that bad thinking. It calls good habits like hard work and planning “racist.” Those habits help every person succeed, no matter their color. Blaming white culture for success only hurts young people. It teaches them to hate the tools that build strong lives. Half the country still cheers these leaders, which shows real confusion. We need leaders who love America and teach real history instead. Cleaning out the museum staff is a good first step.
This is directly the results of WOKEness put in place by the anti-American Barack Obama and braindead Joey Biden. And yet they were and still are loved. Half of American is mentally ill.
Pow, Doc you got that right. 💯