544. When the Right Goes Too Far | Dr. James Lindsay

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Is the radical right becoming the very thing it hates? Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with Dr. James Lindsay to unpack the rise of the "Woke Right"—a faction of online reactionaries using the same tactics of victimhood, outrage mobs, and cult-like behavior once exclusive to the radical left. Together, they explore how parasitic ideologies hijack belief systems, mimic virtue, and weaponize social media to manipulate the masses. From cluster B psychopathology to Nazi apologetics, from Marx to modern meme culture, this is a deep dive into the psychological and ideological rot infecting both ends of the spectrum. If you've sensed that something is deeply wrong in today’s culture wars—on both sides—this episode puts it into words. Dr. James Lindsay has written eight books spanning a range of subjects including education, postmodern theory, and critical race theory. Dr. Lindsay is the Founder of New Discourses, an organization dedicated to shining the light of objective truth in subjective darkness. Dr. Lindsay is the co-author of “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody” and is the author of “Race Marxism,” as well as his newest book, “The Marxification of Education.” Dr. Lindsay has been a featured guest on Fox News, Glenn Beck, Joe Rogan, and NPR, and he has spoken at the Oxford Union and the EU Parliament. This episode was filmed on April, 29th, 2025. | Links | For Dr. James Lindsay: On X https://x.com/ConceptualJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor On YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@newdiscourses/videos Read his latest book, “The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids” https://a.co/d/9lpXvGc

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0:00.0	So, what are you in trouble for now?
0:02.0	The woke, right?
0:03.0	It's a fraught term, right?
0:05.0	Because you have woke, which they associate with left.
0:07.0	You have right, which they associate obviously with the right.
0:10.0	And so now you've got a paradox.
0:11.0	It's troublesome for those with a conservative bent to throw away the idea of institutional legitimacy.
0:18.0	The only possible antidote to really unrestrained investigation.
0:23.6	The idea seems to be something like the more radical, the revolutionary precept,
0:28.6	the more likely something Luciferian is behind it.
0:31.6	So now we're talking at a very abstract, I think metaphysical is the right word, level for what represents woke.
0:38.8	This isn't going to be like recognizable to your average Joe on the street who's dealing with,
0:43.8	you know, a pride parade.
0:45.3	Yeah, and they are called pride parades.
0:47.6	They are called pride parades.
0:49.0	And the cardinal sin of Lucifer is pride.
0:53.6	Yeah. Cardinal sin of Lucifer is pride.
1:08.3	Hello, everybody.
1:20.1	My guest today is James Lindsay, who's been a commentator on cultural affairs for, oh, good 10 years, I suppose longer than that, but being well known for that long.
1:31.6	He was one of the people, along with Helen Pluckrose and others who published a sequence of papers in radical journals that were not genuine, let's put it that way,
1:43.2	and that was very scandalous. It was part of an attempt to expose the pathology that had set into certain aspects of the academic institutions.
1:45.3	And it's become much more widespread now. James has got himself in trouble in recent months, once again, for popularizing the phrase
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