Name: Joe Rogan Experience #958 - Jordan Peterson
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #958 - Jordan Peterson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-05-10. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #958 - Jordan Peterson

two one
boom welcome back mr peterson thank you how are you not too bad how are you
doing doing good man
you look like uh um a man who is dealing with a considerable amount of stress
but is handling it
well yeah well i hope that's true i think the first part of it's true i hope
the second part
is true i read that you were denied a grant for the first time in in your
history as an academic
yes and you think this is all based on your outspoken and very public um denouncing
of the
political correctness and of all this stuff that you've been going through over
the past more than
a year now i don't know because i haven't got the full commentary on the grant
yet i only found out
that it was denied and it takes the granting agency a while to send out the
full report
i've heard from other people i know some other people who i would consider
relatively high profile
researchers who also didn't get funded this round so there might be multiple
reasons but i can't help
suspect that the fact that the grant application concentrated on delineating
the personality
characteristics of politically correct belief might have had something to do
with it
yeah still a taboo subject it's fascinating that thinking and and thinking and
pondering and
examining certain types of behavior would still be a taboo subject yeah it is
amazing all right
and becoming more taboo all the time i would say i don't think the universities
are have
i think they're getting worse still and it'll be a while before they get better
i shouldn't say that
so globally but it's certainly the case with the humanities and much of the
social sciences well it seems
globally i mean uh not necessarily in terms of uh all the different subjects
but certainly in terms of what
you uh teach and what you're involved in and um it just it's so i mean i hate
to use the word but it's so
regressive to put restrictions on the examining of thinking in a university i
mean it's kind of crazy i mean
what what you went through in one of your most recent public speeches where
they allowed these kids
to be in the room with you with bullhorns and they were screaming jamie see if
you can find the video
that what was the name master that was a master university yeah and you were
giving your
speech and there were supposed to be some other people involved they backed out
and you decided
to continue on so you're standing there in front of these people that were
there to hear you talk
and there's a group of kids with bullhorns like literally and shouting and
yelling and chanting with
signs in the room just completely disrupting what you're doing and they allowed
this all to happen
air horns as well so yeah and they were blowing air horns quite close to me
that was the one thing i really
objected to because air horns actually happened to be quite loud no no that's
it's actually an assault on
your ears it's very bad for your hearing like you're not supposed to be in a
room with those without
hearing protection they're supposed to be like for like scary things like play
some of this jamie so
they're yelling shut him down no freedom for hate speech and the hate speech
thing has like
the prince symbol meets some sort of martian language like what the is that
that they have on that no no
freedom for hate speech i guess it's a polygender symbol of some sort there's a
fist in it but one
of the things that was really not so good about all of that was that a lot of
the people who were
protesting were standing behind a hammer and sickle banner you know which just
absolutely amazes me
because i i still haven't been able to quite figure this out i can't figure out
why you couldn't do that
with a nazi symbol but you can do that with a hammer and sickle you know it's
there's a reason and maybe
it's because the nazi doctrine was so explicitly racist but god it's not like
the hammer and sickle
wasn't equally murderous or actually quite profoundly more murderous as it
turned out so and i how how
people cannot still know that is beyond me and and to rally behind a banner
like that without
realizing what they're doing or even worse realizing it and still organizing
themselves behind it and
then you complain about hate speech no there's no real communicating with with
people who are
demonstrating like that they're in a kind of trance you know and i went up to
try to talk to a couple of
them and but when you look at people who are in that state of mind they're not
looking at you as if
you're a human being you know you're the you're the target of their conceptualizations
you're the
realization of their conceptualizations of course they didn't listen to
anything i said well hardly
anyone did although i got to talk outside because i took everybody outside and
then spoke out there for
a while and when you were outside were they still yelling and bullhorns oh yeah
but but what happened
i went outside and i stood on a couple of benches so and and the people that
wanted to hear kind of
made a circle around me and that more or less by chance pushed all the
protesters to the back so
they could so that i could address the people that actually wanted me to
actually wanted to listen to
what i was saying and so did you have a dialogue with them or did you give a
speech and how did that work
i didn't have a dialogue at all with the protesters well i mean with the people
that came to see yeah
yeah yeah that worked out okay once i got outside and i mean i wasn't
particularly upset with the fact
that the protesters had showed up i mean practically speaking because i'm in
this peculiar situation where
if the protesters show up that's good and if they don't show up that's good too
it's good if they show
up because i have access to to a youtube audience obviously and then it gets
filmed and the films get put
together and that get puts that gets put online and generally speaking when the
social justice types
have come after me they've done a pretty admirable job of discrediting
themselves and so that seems to
be all to the good and then if they let me speak well then i get to speak and i
can put that on youtube so
it's it's a very strange situation for me because as long as i don't do
anything too stupid or anything
any stupider than i have done let's say i seem to come out okay and like i'm
not i'm certainly not
counting on that continuing and i'm not uh i'm i'm surprised by it but so far
it seems to be working
out so you know hooray well i think the way you handled it is admirable the way
you kept your cool
and just continued talking and and didn't flip out and didn't didn't give in
didn't succumb to the
provocation it's because they're obviously provoking you and they're obviously
i just don't understand
how the university allows them to do that how they allow them to be in that
room first of all with
those air horns which are really bad for anybody in that room who's near them
it causes hearing damage
yeah well and the one person who was who was air horning me was really quite um
uh i would say
let's say forward about it you know they were coming close enough to me to to
to do some damage and
and and but you know i i have seen the odd person at those rallies that really
isn't well put together
you know people i look in their eyes and i think no you're you're definitely
here for the wrong reasons
and i think it's more characteristic often of the guys that i see at the events
rather than the women
i mean i'm not sure about that i'm obviously speculating but right you know i
have a reasonably
good clinical intuition and some of the guys i see at those events there i don't
know what their story
is man i don't know what they're up to i guess they're what are they trying to
do be allies of the
women for their own nefarious purposes i mean that's what it looks like to me
you know well there's
certainly an issue with that yeah it's a it's a common thread with men that
especially in the male
feminist category that they they align themselves with these women as allies
and as this you know
they take this moral high ground and they're this person that's going to show
you know other men how
to do feminism and how to behave with women and they're really just sort of
they're mining the
situations for social points yeah you know for social and sexual points my
sexual absolutely there's
something seriously creepy about it i mean i saw too that that that guy at uh
the berkeley the recent
berkeley demonstration the guy who hit um someone with a bike lock remember in
a bag and he was
hiding behind some women and then he darted out and just nailed the guy with a
bike lock with what
turned out to be a bike lock guy was just hanging there talking he wasn't being
violent he wasn't doing
anything and by the way that guy turned out to be a professor they found that
guy yeah and so has that
been verified all of that there's photographs of him there's photographs of his
face they compared
the his eyes to the professor's eyes they know that the guy was there and then
the guy aligns himself
with marxism and he's just like communist slash socialist professor who's very
adamantly against
right-wing ideology and this kind of shit so he um they're pretty sure that
that's the guy yeah yeah well i kind
of followed that and i noticed all that i mean for as far as i'm concerned
watching what he did that's
the true face of those people it's assault i mean he hit a guy with a deadly
weapon yeah i mean i saw i
also thought it was blackly comic that it was a bike lock i mean that that just
figures you know so
well it's just the idea that you could just walk up to someone you don't like
the way they think and
hit them in the head with a metal thing it's just so it's so crazy and so delusional
and so
indicative of someone who looks at a person as the other you're not looking at
it as a human being
who disagrees with you like in not not only that a young human being like talk
about a lack of
empathy yeah i mean you're expecting this 20 year old guy or however old the
guy was got hit in the
head you're expecting him to have his ideology down solid and not be influenced
by peers or not be
curious about what this argument about the guy wasn't even yelling anything he
was just standing
there yeah well that's kind of what i thought about this the protesters at mcmaster
too you know
it's partly why i don't get upset it's like i look at these kids that are out
there protesting
you know apart from the professional professional protester types and i think
well jesus they've
been served so badly by the education system that it's absolutely beyond belief
you know
they're basically being sent out as avatars of this pathological post-modern
movement by their
professors who are themselves too cowardly to show up generally speaking and
certainly aren't
aren't brave enough to debate me you know or if they do show up they're like
this guy with a mask
on hitting people in the head who was a professor yeah well they don't believe
in dialogue you know
it's not part of their uh it's not part of the post-modern ethos to have a
dialogue with people you
don't agree with so you weren't able to talk to anyone that opposed you not so
far not in any serious
sense were you able to talk to anyone that had the hammer and sickle sign and
and ask them like do you
understand what this stands for what does this mean to you like what what what
are you trying to project
by having this sign yeah no no it wasn't wasn't possible at that venue i mean
like i said whenever
i got close to anybody that was protesting that it there was no one-to-one
human interaction you
know i mean i can tell when someone's going to be willing to communicate with
me and when they've kind
of got cold eyes like a codfish you know whatever they're looking at has
nothing to do with me or very
little to do with me well that seems to me to be one of the weirder aspects of
this
thing that you're going through this this these all these series of altercations
that you're going
through is the lack of discours