Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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I have looked into it. It's very large. So that means there's 80,000 academic activists who are being employed full time in the United States.
Do you think they'd be less liberal? I don't know. Bias?
Do you think they'd be less liberal? I don't know. Bias?
Do you think they'd be less liberal? I don't know. Bias?
Okay, so it's not 80,000, but it could easily be 50,000. Yes, yes. Okay, so that's a number I want to return to. Okay, okay. Yeah, because there's implications.
Okay, so it's not 80,000, but it could easily be 50,000. Yes, yes. Okay, so that's a number I want to return to. Okay, okay. Yeah, because there's implications.
Okay, so it's not 80,000, but it could easily be 50,000. Yes, yes. Okay, so that's a number I want to return to. Okay, okay. Yeah, because there's implications.
It was a very narrow... See, that's actually the fundamental flaw of intersectionality, is intersectionality devolves into combinatorial explosion almost immediately, right? Because...
It was a very narrow... See, that's actually the fundamental flaw of intersectionality, is intersectionality devolves into combinatorial explosion almost immediately, right? Because...
It was a very narrow... See, that's actually the fundamental flaw of intersectionality, is intersectionality devolves into combinatorial explosion almost immediately, right? Because...
once you start combining the categories of oppression, you don't have to make, your list of combinations, black, women, gay, et cetera, every time you add another variable to that multiplicative list, you decrease the pool of people that occupy that list radically, right?
once you start combining the categories of oppression, you don't have to make, your list of combinations, black, women, gay, et cetera, every time you add another variable to that multiplicative list, you decrease the pool of people that occupy that list radically, right?
once you start combining the categories of oppression, you don't have to make, your list of combinations, black, women, gay, et cetera, every time you add another variable to that multiplicative list, you decrease the pool of people that occupy that list radically, right?
But there's also an infinite, there's literally an indefinite, this is your point, an indefinite number of potentially relevant group categories Yes. So how in the world are you going to ensure that every possible combination of every possible group category is... You can't even measure it, much less ensure it. Yeah, you can't do that.
But there's also an infinite, there's literally an indefinite, this is your point, an indefinite number of potentially relevant group categories Yes. So how in the world are you going to ensure that every possible combination of every possible group category is... You can't even measure it, much less ensure it. Yeah, you can't do that.
But there's also an infinite, there's literally an indefinite, this is your point, an indefinite number of potentially relevant group categories Yes. So how in the world are you going to ensure that every possible combination of every possible group category is... You can't even measure it, much less ensure it. Yeah, you can't do that.
So there's this underlying insistence, which you're pointing to, I believe, that there are privileged categories of oppressed people. And it's a weird thing. It's like, why is it that it's race... and sex. And you might think, well, those are the most obvious differences between people, and maybe you can make that case.
So there's this underlying insistence, which you're pointing to, I believe, that there are privileged categories of oppressed people. And it's a weird thing. It's like, why is it that it's race... and sex. And you might think, well, those are the most obvious differences between people, and maybe you can make that case.
So there's this underlying insistence, which you're pointing to, I believe, that there are privileged categories of oppressed people. And it's a weird thing. It's like, why is it that it's race... and sex. And you might think, well, those are the most obvious differences between people, and maybe you can make that case.
But then it's also gender, which is a very weird insistence, because whether the idea of gender is a valid... I don't think the idea of gender is a valid idea at all. I think it's super... It's, what would you say, it's a warped misconceptualization of everything that's captured by temperament much more accurately and precisely. We can talk about that.