“It’s a catastrophe. It means that we learn half the lesson. We sort of learned half the lesson of the 20th century, right? And thank God we sort of learned half the lesson. But the other half has not been learned, and that’s not acceptable, not in the least. The data in the United States indicates t…”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.comTagged: World War II, Communism, Marxist
“The intellectuals, roughly speaking, have been complicit in failure to define the excesses of the left.”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.comTagged: Intellectuals, Intelligentsia, Leftist Extremism
“There is no phenomena in social sciences, period, that is on firmer statistical and conceptual footing than IQ. There’s no phenomena that’s more robust. If you give people a set of tests that assess abstraction, and then you measure their average score on the set of tests of abstraction, and then yo…”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.comTagged: IQ, IQ and Race, The Bell Curve, problematic
“The problem with IQ tests is that they do produce group differences, and that’s unbelievably complicated and horrible. It’s complicated because it isn’t obvious how you should group people, if you’re going to do group analysis of IQ. For example, there’s more genetic diversity among Africans than th…”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.comTagged: IQ, IQ and Race, The Bell Curve, problematic
“Well, I think it’s very easy for people, who don’t want to evaluate their own beliefs, to assume that everything the other side is saying is a consequence of their personal moral failings, and their ignorance, and their malevolence, basically. It’s not helpful. I particularly think it’s unhelpful in…”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.comTagged: accountability, Responsibilities, Left/Right
“I don’t know. The thing is, there’s a lot of noise in the press, especially as you move towards the radical left, about the alt-right. But I have a hard time putting my finger on who, exactly, these alt-right people are. If you look at the radical left, it’s obvious that they have a stranglehold, I…”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.comTagged: Alt-Right, Radical Left
“We’re producing a cognitive hierarchy, and, increasingly, the spoils of the hierarchy are going to people who are in the cognitive stratosphere, so to speak. It’s one thing to be really smart. It gives you an edge in a complex society, especially one that’s changing very rapidly, like ours. But if y…”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.comTagged: IQ, Cognitive Elite, Cognitive Hierarchy
“I think we have been able to box in the more unfortunate elements of the right. That’s probably a consequence, mostly, of moral deliberations undertaken after World War II. We seem to have come to a pretty general consensus, I would say, that claims of ethnic or racial superiority place you outside…”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.comTagged: World War II, Philosphy, Identity Politics