The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - 241. How Anti-Racism Is Hurting Black America | John McWhorter & Jordan Peterson

241. How Anti-Racism Is Hurting Black America | John McWhorter & Jordan Peterson

04/04/22 • 84 min

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

This episode was recorded on September 27th, 2021.

Dr. Jordan Peterson and John McWhorter exchange ideas on the field of linguistics, how language affects our worldview, music, children’s capacity to learn languages, race problems in the US, virtue signaling, wokeism, Chomsky’s universal grammar, and more.

John Mcwhorter is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Professor McWhorter is an author of more than a dozen books including ‘The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language,’ ‘Losing the Race: Self Sabotage in Black America’ and ‘Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English.’ He’s also a regular contributor to publications like The New Republic and The Atlantic.

Follow John McWhorter: https://twitter.com/JohnHMcWhorter

Check out his new book: https://amazon.com/Woke-Racism-Religion-Betrayed-America/dp/0593423062

And his article ‘The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility:’

https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/

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Chapters

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[0:00] Intro

[1:30] Linguistics Overview

[3:30] Language Acquisition in Children

[11:00] Language & Worldview

[16:00] Division, People, & Culture

[17:00] On Music

[19:10] “Music is often regarded as a nonrepresentational art form” - John McWhorter

[26:00] The Nature of American Studies

[28:30] Outline of McWhorter's Career

[32:00] Race in America I

[35:45] John’s New Book On Woke Racism

[45:30] Musical Theater, Reality, & Religion

[52:00] Wokeism & Postmodernism

[57:00] Woke Upbringing

[1:00:45] Race in America II

[1:03:30] Virtue Signaling

[1:09:45] “Are All White People Racist?”

[1:15:00] Outro

#Linguistics #Race #Chomsky #UniversalGrammar #Wokeism

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This episode was recorded on September 27th, 2021.

Follow John McWhorter: https://twitter.com/JohnHMcWhorter

Check out his new book: https://amazon.com/Woke-Racism-Religion-Betrayed-America/dp/0593423062

And his article ‘The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility:’

https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/

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Chapters

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[0:00] Intro

[1:30] Linguistics Overview

[3:30] Language Acquisition in Children

[11:00] Language & Worldview

[16:00] Division, People, & Culture

[17:00] On Music

[19:10] “Music is often regarded as a nonrepresentational art form” - John McWhorter

[26:00] The Nature of American Studies

[28:30] Outline of McWhorter's Career

[32:00] Race in America I

[35:45] John’s New Book On Woke Racism

[45:30] Musical Theater, Reality, & Religion

[52:00] Wokeism & Postmodernism

[57:00] Woke Upbringing

[1:00:45] Race in America II

[1:03:30] Virtue Signaling

[1:09:45] “Are All White People Racist?”

[1:15:00] Outro

#Linguistics #Race #Chomsky #UniversalGrammar #Wokeism

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240. Why Free Speech Is The Antidote To Our Problems | Cambridge University Speech

Recorded at Caius College on November 22, 2021.

Dr. Peterson recently traveled to the UK for a series of lectures at the highly esteemed Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. This was the first of said lectures.

After some remarks on Cambridge’s beauty and rich history, Dr. Peterson examines the significance and history of clinical psychology. Drawing from the likes of Carl Rogers, Freud, Maslow, and Jung, this lecture investigates free speech, the value of structure, ways to approach mental illness, Jordan’s clinical experience, active listening, relationships, and the golden rule for conflict management.

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[0:00] Intro

[1:30] Start of speech

[3:10] Dr. Peterson reflects on the beauty and integrity of the University of Cambridge and the effort by Dr. Orr to make the talk about free speech possible

[4:20] How studying clinicians Carl Jung, Carl Rogers, Maslow, and others helped Dr. Peterson both professionally and personally

[6:20] Dr. Peterson stresses the importance of being an active speaker as well as an active listener, and explains how Freud “let people reveal themselves to themselves”

[12:30] Dr. Peterson’s approach as a formally-trained cognitive-behavioral psychologist and conflict resolution advice for people who are in an intimate relationship

[16:10] Dr. Peterson describes Carl Roger’s technique as it relates to conflict management

[23:00] The importance of having an overarching structure that unites a family for peace and harmony within a household

[26:00] Dr. Peterson explains why “free speech is not the freedom or right among many”

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242. Solving The Problem Of Human Perception | Jordan Peterson Lecture at The University of Cambridge

In November 2021, Dr. Peterson traveled to the United Kingdom to give a series of lectures at Oxford and Cambridge. This lecture was given at Lady Mitchell Hall at the University of Cambridge on November 23rd, 2021.

Dr. Peterson gives an in-depth exploration of the problem of perception. In doing so, he touches on orienting reflexes, artificial intelligence, the infinite possibilities parsed by perception, neurophysiology, postmodernism, and the relationship between imitation, awe, and the divine, before answering questions from the audience about the direction of Western civilization, meaning, and the notion of humans as simple biological machines.

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Chapters

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[0:00] Intro

[1:30] Dr. James Orr Welcomes Dr. Peterson to Cambridge

[6:30] The Problem of Perception

[8:30] The Orienting Reflex

[12:30] The Neuropsychology of Anxiety by Jeffrey Gray

[14:30] Perception, Sokolov, & Artificial Intelligence

[17:30] Infinity in Perception

[22:30] Embodied AI

[24:10] Utilization Behavior