Name: Jordan Peterson on Women's Studies (from Joe Rogan Experience #877)
Uploaded: 2016-12-01T19:28:32.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jordan Peterson on Women's Studies (from Joe Rogan Experience #877)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-12-01. Transcript available.

Hello, Freak Bitches!
When did this start? When did the trigger warnings, when did the safe spaces,
when did all this emerge?
Well, it has its roots in the student radicalism of the 1960s, especially the
far-left radicalism.
It really popped up in the 1990s, in the early 90s, when I was teaching in the
U.S. at that point.
Which university?
I taught at Harvard from '93 to '98.
And there was a fair push for political correctness, especially in the early
part of the 90s.
But it got pushed back down and disappeared and went underground.
It went underground is more accurate.
And then it's just come back with a vengeance in the last five years.
And I think it's partly because we have all these radical left political
activist departments at the universities,
women's studies being at the top of the list, that have done nothing for the
last 30 years.
It's even longer than that now. It's almost 40 years. 30 years, let's say.
We have done nothing but produce a never-ending stream of ideologically minded
counter-civilization political activists.
And that's all subsidized by tuition and by the public purse.
And that's another thing we really got to ask ourselves, is why the hell are we
subsidizing revolution?
Why are we doing that? It's crazy. And it's dangerous. It's dangerous.
So what exactly is going on with women's studies that you believe is fostering
revolution?
Well, you go on their websites and read. Read what they say.
I mean, first of all, for the women's studies types, and this is, what would
you call it, false anthropology.
There's this idea that way back when there was a feminist paradise,
and that would be like noble savage mode of living where everything was egalitarian
and women dominated.
It was a matriarchal culture. And that was put forward by a UCLA anthropologist
named Gembutess.
I can never pronounce her name properly, but I think I got it.
And then that was overthrown by patriarchal institutions, essentially starting
at about the time, say, of Judaism.
And that was all overthrown. And ever since then, we've lived in an oppressive
patriarchy.
And now that's what our culture is. It's an oppressive patriarchy.
So they're pointing to one unsuccessful society that they believe existed, or
did it actually exist?
No, it didn't exist. There's no evidence for it whatsoever.
It's complicated, but it's the telling of a kind of psychological myth as if it
was history.
Whoa.
And anyway, so the basic claim is that Western civilization is a brutish patriarchy
in that whatever positive things it might have managed to accomplish were all
accomplished as a consequence of oppression and theft.
And that the appropriate thing to do is to restructure it from the bottom up.
And they mean that. They mean that. They mean every single bloody concept.
And you can marry that with modern postmodernism and throw in a nice stash of
Marxism.
And you have the ideological and motivated grounds for social revolution.
Just go online and look at a dozen women's studies websites. Just read them.
You can see what they say. They produce political activists, and their goal is
to restructure the patriarchy.
Well, what's the patriarchy? Well, the patriarchy is Western civilization.
And what does restructure mean? That's easy. It means tear it down and destroy
it. Why?
Because it's a brutish system that's predicated on nothing but oppression.
It's nothing but a tyranny in the eyes of the radical women's studies types.
Heterosexuality, that's a tyranny. Capitalism, that's a tyranny. Democracy,
well, that doesn't even exist.
And even if it did, it would be a tyranny. Everything's a tyranny.
And so you can ask these, and what would they replace it with?
They'd replace it with their own ideological utopia.
Well, we've already had a hundred years of that. We saw what happened.
Oh, well, that doesn't matter. That wasn't real Marxism.
That's what the bloody Marxists always say. That wasn't real Marxism.
It's like, oh, how many millions of people have to die before you're convinced
that it's real Marxism?
And I know what they mean by that, too. They mean, hey, if I was the Marxist
dictator, things would have gone a lot better.
So, and if you're the sort of person that thinks that if you would have been
controlled, things would have gone a lot better, then you're exactly the sort
of person who should never be in control.
So, and it's resentment. It's horrible resentment, you know?
Well, that's an important point, because I think this is something that you've
said that I absolutely agree with, that I think a lot of this thinking and the
way people are behaving, it seems based on revenge.
It seems based on revenge for awkward upbringings, social uncomfortability.
It seems like there's something about the way they view the world, where they
want to get back at people that have literally done them no wrong.
It's resentment for the burden of being. It's deeper. It's deeper.
I mean, human existence is characterized by a fair bit of suffering.
You know, we're limited creatures, and life is very hard. Everyone dies.
Everyone you love is going to die.
Most of the things you do, all of the things you do, will eventually fail.
You know, suffering is a certainty, and it's very easy for people to become
resentful about being, about existence.
You know, these kids who shoot up high schools, and these mass shooters, they're
the perfect examples of people who run on nothing but resentment.
They're out to kill the innocent, because that's the best marker of, that's the
best way of showing just how much contempt they have for existence itself.
Why punish the guilty? They deserve to be punished. It's a lot more malevolent
and vengeful to punish the innocent.
It's like, people are motivated to a great degree by resentment of being.
And a huge chunk of that is manifested in, that's the dark side of ideological
possession.
So I get to decide who my enemies are, and then I get to go after them, and I
can go after them for every single thing that's ever been done to me that isn't
good.
And well, a lot of that's just built into the structure of existence.
Then they group up, they exhibit confirmation bias, they all form some sort of
a groupthink, and then they act accordingly.
And this is what you've been warning against, and this is where I completely
agree with you, and this is why I think the subject is so important.
And I love the way you've outlined all the steps and the problems with Marxism
and ideologies in general, that we are dealing with this.
These are the beginning steps of it, and people who look at it now and they say
it's social change, it's social justice.
It's not. It's not. It's not. That's right. It's not.
And this is not going to improve things. Implementing these policies will make
things worse.
They've made things worse every single place they've ever been implemented.
And often they've made things so much worse that you actually can't imagine it.
And people don't do the reading. I've done the reading. I've done the reading.
I know how bad things can get.
They can get so bad that no matter how bad you think they are, you're not even
in the bloody ballpark.
Well, it's just so strange that these sort of courses and these sort of ideologies
are thriving in universities.
And it's really disconcerting to someone who has children.
And you know that your children are going to go there and they're going to be
exposed to these ideas.
Send them to trade school.
You know, I think that the universities...
Wow. A guy who used to teach at Harvard just says, "Send them to trade school."
I think the universities, I think the universities...
I think you can make a reasonable case that the universities do more harm than
good now.
I hate to say that.
Wow.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.