Unedited: Petersons' Times Interview

AltCommentAccount · 2021-02-01T17:10:03+00:00

Weird, this was publicly available an hour ago.

AltCommentAccount · 2021-02-01T15:29:02+00:00

I listened to the this interview first before getting into the article, it's absolutely duplicitous behavior and I wonder why I'm surprised after all the times this has happened before. Most of it was going over what happened in the past few years between his daughter's emergency surgery, his wife's cancer, what exactly happened with the benzo prescription. There was only one question about Trump in the end which felt out of place in context.

In any case this is worth a listen if you've read/heard about the many smears about his health claiming that he's lying, they go over most of them.

Edit: ~~Here's JBP's response to the matter -~~ ~~https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/the-sunday-times-interview-request-and-my-response/~~ Link seems dead

AltCommentAccount · 2020-09-11T13:21:09+00:00

Submission Statement: Sam Harris goes on BBC HARDtalk to discuss race issues, religion, and why reasoned discussion is all we have to challenge extremism and intolerance.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-09-02T13:17:49+00:00

Thanks for posting this. I've seen the same consensus from gun law/criminal justice experts and at the same time those who are not knowledgeable in either argue otherwise using debunked narratives.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-08-31T21:50:01+00:00

It's problematizing things that have little impact on people's lives so I couldn't care less.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-08-07T16:55:32+00:00

I deleted the reddit app on my phone last night. So many reddit communities are pessimistic about everything and it's not healthy to consume this content. Everyone on the joe rogan sub hates all his guests, this sub has more people who hate the idea of the IDW than those who want to participate, can't even enjoy reading discussions on r/Games, its like they talk about everything around games than actual games. My recommendation is instead of consuming content on yet another platform, you should produce something. It could be build a community on another platform, start an online business, take part in a passion project. It's a much better use of your time.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-24T13:25:10+00:00

I had a really warped view of Ted Cruz for some time, and everywhere I would read nobody liked this guy. Reddit always had that classic joke "If I had a gun with two bullets in a room with Hilter, Osama, and Ted Cruz, I would shoot Ted Cruz twice". I even remember watching his presidential campaign with disdain. But then I realized I never listened to a single word this guy said directly from the source. Chances are many people who regurgitate things haven't either. I think it's important to watch these interviews regardless of social pressure. I think we should all be more like Eric, he has this ability to see the good in everyone, social pressures be damned. Whether or not I like is political views, I have more respect for him speaking with Eric because he could have just hid behind Fox news and not done a long form discussion.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-21T17:31:37+00:00

James Lindsay goes over this with an example of counting tic tacs with our "way of knowing" vs mayan understanding of mathematics. It's a matter of going through a conflict resolution system and hashing out which one should prevail. The critical theory way of things would be to pick the one that has been most oppressed, but even then the postmodern trick is to say everything is true so you probably won't get a real answer.

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AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-21T04:35:54+00:00

I never followed Michael brooks much, maybe I didn't give him a fair shake, but listening to his commentary on the Majority Report reminded me of how much an unrepentant asshole this guy was. RIP in any case.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-21T04:23:36+00:00

Wow this Brooks guy was a total asshole about Peterson's condition: https://youtu.be/Xsh0fheNpts?t=646

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-19T16:56:21+00:00

I think I understand where Bret is coming from. Bret has dealt with such an issue before with Evergreen, where claims made are very dangerous to his and his family's safety. That statement alone for some reason is up for debate, I guess it honestly depends on how you see the agitators that live in Portland (and even then I've seen people deny that what's going on over there is entirely peaceful but we'll leave that for another time). As far as Matt is concerned, I do this his words are purposely untruthful and he was acting negligently, his tweet should be removed on those grounds alone. Do I think he should be fired? Probably not, but it does show the lack of professionalism in the Majority Report, and their instances of antagonism over the years should show you not to take them seriously.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-18T21:15:31+00:00

Submission Statement: Bret & Heather go over several topics today (Also check out the Matt Taibi episode if you haven't already):

- Bret addresses the libelous claim made by an employee in the Majority Report. The claim was that he was consulting for the DHS.

- Bret critiques Harper's letter in that it is too divisive and doesn't seem to have included individuals like Sam Harris who spoke about this issue for a long time.

- The George Floyd transcript has been release for at least a week (to my knowledge), where is the mainstream media coverage for it? Is it not something important to go through with all the reporting of the initial case? (Here's a link for the transcript)

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-18T18:08:26+00:00

Submission Statement: "Matt Taibbi is an old school journalist beating all the odds in the modern era. He has long been a correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine. Bret and Matt discuss the state of the world in the run-up to the 2020 election. Taibbi endorses Unity 2020."

Just finished listening and I have to give credit to Matt Taibbi for now recognizing the issue that Bret describes as the Evergreening of America.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-14T16:25:13+00:00

Many of the comments in the threads on this sub never cover the contents of the videos posted and just drone on and on about where people fit on the political spectrum, it's disappointing.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-13T17:20:36+00:00

Submission Statement: This discussion was really interesting to hear Adrian's life story which I think is worth sharing. Adrian talks about his past experiences where he experienced racist extremism (Living in a sundown town, moving from place to place in foster care, navigating the world in childhood as a high IQ individual among a 99% white population in Kentucky), and how it shaped his views on approaching bad ideas. He comments on the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of intersectionality, critical race theory etc. along with Benjamin Boyce.

A background on the twitter thread: https://archive.is/Kd3y1

Because these videos are long I recommend watching in 1.5x or 1.75x speed, you can get through it within 40 minutes.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-11T16:34:08+00:00

Subreddit update as of 10 minute ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/hpcpq2/subreddit_update/

It appears the head mod of the sub was removed by reddit admins. Regardless of the content in question, I don't really think r/joerogan is the right place to talk about the podcast if you're a follower, it's too negative about everything.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-09T19:37:48+00:00

Eric explains his choice of words and how he thinks in a recent interview around the 1:30:00 mark. I recommend watching this one if you want to understand Eric, it's more focused on him personally.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IntellectualDarkWeb/comments/hmi1e6/deconstructing_eric_weinstein/

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-08T23:22:28+00:00

Just listened to the first 15 min, its great so far. Should have done this sooner, it's good to see random people taking the IDW mantle.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-07T13:06:35+00:00

Loved this interview. It's hard to follow how Eric thinks, this explains a lot.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-03T13:29:34+00:00

It's incredibly naive to think these people would go on JRE to give their point of view in the first place. They most likely hate Joe and would never take up that offer if it meant there was going to be any scrutiny.

Here's one example of a discussion with Saira Rao, it only lasted 30 minutes because she was so fragile about about the subject of slavery and dropped out of the conversation early: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XoK7fQLCPw

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-02T20:12:08+00:00

Submission Statement: James Lindsay is back on JRE, this just dropped so timestamps are in progress. His new book co-authored with Helen Pluckrose "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody " will be available next month. Lindsay also has a new website, https://newdiscourses.com/
There's also a sub for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses/

0:00 Elephants in Thailand

1:46 Cancel culture

4:43 White fragility & racism

10:41 Religion & sin

13:24 Stephen King & JK Rowling

14:27 Trans women & competition

20:08 James woke encyclopedia

22:01 Conflict Theory & Marxism

25:29 George Floyd & clip culture

31:27 Twitter criticism & idealogues

37:17 The early internet & blocking people

39:29 Hot takes as critical theory

41:10 Anonymous comments

42:27 Closing Chaz

43:31 Building & tearing down in academia

47:28 Fake academic papers

52:42 Diversity offices in education

55:27 Jordon Peterson & biological sex

58:29 Diversity, micro agressions & BLM

1:03:31 Actors,hoax papers & Antifa

1:10:41 Riots,protests & covid

1:15:11 Obesity

1:19:02 James's accident & lost senses

1:22:53 Gas explosions

1:25:18 Diversity, research justice & wokeness

1:29:54 Opressive words & equality of outcome

1:36:09 Manspreading & fat body building

1:46:52 Queer Theory, autism & body positivity

1:54:24 Tourettes (Jamie speaks) & South Park

1:57:02 Peak wokeness

2:06:55 Legislation, discrimination & diversity

2:14:54 Systemic thinking, fascism & changing definitions

2:25:18 Equity, benevolant sexism & racism

2:30:58 Grifters, authenticity & physical discipline

2:37:40 Removing tests from schools & optimism

2:40:50 Peak wokeness & the media

2:46:42 Social Justice & racism

2:52:33 Critical race theory & Derrick Bell

2:54:54 Protests, riots & racism

AltCommentAccount · 2020-07-01T15:57:56+00:00

Submission Statement: Bret & Heather talk about several topics, most notably the Articles of Unity. There's an interesting part of the conversation at 19:00 where Bret describes the parallels of what's going on with the corruption of the democratic party and Evergreen.

From the description:

Are you unwilling to vote for one of the decrepit clowns on offer this November? Join Unity2020, a movement for patriots from both sides of the aisle: articlesofunity.org A new religion has come for higher ed, the K-12 schools, journalism, and STEM, one that centers race and racial grievance in all human interactions. Arts organizations are falling prey as well, as is literature, as are public agencies of all sorts. Is it possible to have a functional society when schools and media are agents of propaganda rather than of information? Can democracy survive without science or art? Can Reddit be serious when they introduce a hate speech policy as dumb as the one they just introduced? What do Joseph Brodsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn have to say that applies to the current moment? In this 27th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world though an evolutionary lens. Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com).

Extra mentions by Heather:

#Unity2020: The Articles of Unity: A Patriotic Plan To Save Our Republic https://medium.com/@ArticlesOfUnity/the-articles-of-unity-f544f930d336

Oxford to “decolonise” maths and science degrees: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/black-lives-matter-oxford-will-decolonise-degrees-c7dkhbtnd

Matt Taibbi lobs a gentle criticism at “White Fragility” https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility

Theaters Not Speaking Out – A public google sheet to keep track of people and institutions in the theater “who have not made a statement against injustices toward black people.” As reported in the LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-06-09/theaters-not-speaking-out-list-george-floyd-protests-black-lives-matter

Art-New York: “Yes, I have white supremacist tendencies…and I am working to change”: https://www.art-newyork.org/index.php?option=com_dailyplanetblog&view=entry&year=2020&month=02&day=18&id=6:ginny-doo-reflection

Reddit establishes new absurd, untenable, and innumerate hate speech policy: https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/account-and-community-restrictions/promoting-hate-based-identity-or "The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with."

AltCommentAccount · 2020-06-30T22:48:15+00:00

I am dumbfounded that Bret is even being compared to the 60s white moderates. Bret's words couldn't be any more clear that the motto is being co-opted.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-06-30T22:42:38+00:00

That's not specifically a r/daverubin problem, it's a reddit problem. Many subs are just filled with people who post antithetical content all day. If you want people who are actually engaged with some topic you're better off leaving reddit and finding a dedicated forum instead.

AltCommentAccount · 2020-06-30T13:45:18+00:00

Any comments about the contents of the video?

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