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Munk Debate - Political Correctness

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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What Are You Thinking About When You Limit People's Language

A generation from now, i think people wo look back on this and and wonder why political correctness wasn't discussed. I was interested in a what i've always been interested in, the suppression of language. And thought the rationalist idea that seems beguiling, that if youe limit people's language, it may somehow teach them a different way of thinking is just implausible. It doesn't stand an empirical test. It isn't experientially validateid as we see from the political landscape now. So i'mo disappointed that the subject has just revolved around academia, which was predictable,. because that's the crucible in which these elements are mixed.

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