Jordan Peterson

And then there's this incredibly deep, and people overall, I think, in the West have no idea how pathological the universities have become. The social sciences, the humanities, run on an oppressor-victim narrative, and everything is seen through that light, and you can learn the tenets of the oppressor-victimizer narrative in five minutes, and then you can explain the world.

I mean, what eyes would you... Especially without giving some due credit to the fact of Western eyes.

I mean, what eyes would you... Especially without giving some due credit to the fact of Western eyes.

I mean, what eyes would you... Especially without giving some due credit to the fact of Western eyes.

Those Western eyes who defined ancient artifacts as treasures to begin with. Right. Then it becomes self-evident.

Those Western eyes who defined ancient artifacts as treasures to begin with. Right. Then it becomes self-evident.

Those Western eyes who defined ancient artifacts as treasures to begin with. Right. Then it becomes self-evident.

Let me put a twist on that. Tell me what you think. So it seems to me that the pride story is slightly perhaps more complicated than the tale that you laid out. So there's this initial presumption of Western centrality, let's say, that you pointed to.

Let me put a twist on that. Tell me what you think. So it seems to me that the pride story is slightly perhaps more complicated than the tale that you laid out. So there's this initial presumption of Western centrality, let's say, that you pointed to.

Let me put a twist on that. Tell me what you think. So it seems to me that the pride story is slightly perhaps more complicated than the tale that you laid out. So there's this initial presumption of Western centrality, let's say, that you pointed to.

But see, one of the things I saw at the University of Toronto shortly before it became impossible for me to work there was this insistence by my colleagues that there was no moral pathway, no more productive and moral pathway that a student could be invited to take than the pathway of protest.

But see, one of the things I saw at the University of Toronto shortly before it became impossible for me to work there was this insistence by my colleagues that there was no moral pathway, no more productive and moral pathway that a student could be invited to take than the pathway of protest.

But see, one of the things I saw at the University of Toronto shortly before it became impossible for me to work there was this insistence by my colleagues that there was no moral pathway, no more productive and moral pathway that a student could be invited to take than the pathway of protest.

Right, okay, so now the protest, see, it's not only that the students are characterized by this overweening certainty in Western... What would you say?

Right, okay, so now the protest, see, it's not only that the students are characterized by this overweening certainty in Western... What would you say?

Right, okay, so now the protest, see, it's not only that the students are characterized by this overweening certainty in Western... What would you say?

Yes, yes. It's that by... See, they posit this malevolent force that's centered in the West, but then they position themselves as adversaries to that force. And that's the prideful twist. It's like, we're so horrible here in the West, but I'm so good that even though I'm part of the West, I'll do everything I can to oppose that. And then they're egged on by their... by their idiot professors.

Yes, yes. It's that by... See, they posit this malevolent force that's centered in the West, but then they position themselves as adversaries to that force. And that's the prideful twist. It's like, we're so horrible here in the West, but I'm so good that even though I'm part of the West, I'll do everything I can to oppose that. And then they're egged on by their... by their idiot professors.

Yes, yes. It's that by... See, they posit this malevolent force that's centered in the West, but then they position themselves as adversaries to that force. And that's the prideful twist. It's like, we're so horrible here in the West, but I'm so good that even though I'm part of the West, I'll do everything I can to oppose that. And then they're egged on by their... by their idiot professors.

Yeah, yeah.