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325. The Downfall of the Ivy League | Victor Davis Hanson

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Inevitability of Pathological Thought

I don't see any way out of that and certainly not the case that these hypothetically egalitarian systems of governance like communism ever produced anything that had less of a perito distribution or an unequal distribution than capitalist societies. The problem of computing equity starts to become technically impossible because every single person's identity is so complex on the intersectional front that there isn't even a hypothetical way of deciding whether any given socioeconomic outcome is equitable. What I think Obama did was he redefined race in America is not a binary between 88% white and 12% black but he came up with this word diversity that replaced class differential or class oppressions or class grievances. He said it's 30% of the population is

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