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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

335. Imposing Limits on the Woke? | Christopher Rufo

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.634.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr Jordan B Peterson and Christopher Rufo discuss the creative left, the world of documentary filmmaking, how ideology has seeped in and taken hold of academia, and how Rufo among others are taking an active role in fighting back through legislature. Christopher Rufo is a senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theory at the Manhattan Institute. He is also a contributing editor of City Journal, where his writing explores various issues, including critical race theory, gender ideology, homelessness, addiction, crime, and the decline of American cities. Christopher was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees at New College of Florida by Governor Ron DeSantis. Every week, Christopher is creating new videos on his Youtube channel exploring these topics and more. You can find them at https://www.youtube.com/@christopherrufo.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. I have the opportunity today to speak with one of Florida's leading troublemakers.

0:21.4

You might say Christopher Rufo and he's been working on the education front in Florida

0:28.2

and I want to play the role of friendly enemy today because I'm very interested in what's

0:33.7

happening in Florida concerned as I am about the state of education in general in the

0:39.5

West, North America, Canada, US, and also more specifically with regard to higher education.

0:47.1

And so I've been watching the goings on in Florida with great amount of interest and I have

0:50.7

a lot of questions and I'm going to try to push Mr. Rufo, Chris as hard as I can today

0:56.1

in a friendly manner because I want to get to the bottom of all of this to the degree

1:02.0

that that's possible and I'm certainly seeing excesses on the leftist radical side with

1:07.4

regards to the reformulation of the education system and as far as I'm concerned something

1:12.0

needs to be done about that but that's complicated and it's hard to do something about it without

1:16.1

falling prey to potential excesses on the more conservative and traditionalist sides.

1:22.1

We're going to hash that out today at least that's my plan so welcome Chris it's good

1:26.3

of you to agree to talk to me today and I'm really looking forward to this.

1:29.5

Yeah likewise it's a pleasure and an honor to be with you and look forward to the conversation.

1:34.8

So let's start out by giving some people information about your background and you kind

1:40.0

of sprang onto the scene at least in so far as I was concerned just a couple of years

1:45.3

ago when you started really what would you say pushing back against the DEI activists

1:53.0

on the education front and now you seem to be pretty and takeerly involved in governor

1:58.4

desantis of Florida's what would you say strategic moves forward on the education reform

2:07.4

front and so let's start with a bit of description about your background and how you came about

2:12.2

doing what you are doing and what you're doing as well.

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