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287. Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality | Helen Joyce

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Are You Using the Words That You Consider Natural?

I think that one of the reasons that the vitriol is so intense on this subject is that it's so linguistic. When you say that men can become women by saying that they're women or vice versa, you're making a statement about language, not about reality. So when somebody like me insists on talking about the reality that they say and refuses to use the words that are mandated, we're destroying the reality that people are trying to create. And then your second question was about social media - why now? And I think there's a lot of reasons it's a perfect storm thing. But we are witnessing a social contagion. And that social contagion is carrying what I increasingly think

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