Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast.

This is episode 16, an incendiary discussion at Ryerson University.

Originally published to YouTube on March 2, this podcast is a recording of a conversation

between Dr. Peterson and Dr. Orrin Amitay, who invited Dr. Peterson to speak to his students

at Ryerson.

The discussion covers freedom of speech, ideological possession, unconscious bias, and the implicit

association test, and other issues germane to psychology and the modern world.

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So I've been talking about your cause, I guess, since you started your videos, and since you started having troubles with human rights

tribunals or threats by U of T. And I just think it's common sense that they said that I think that promoting critical thinking,

helping people to be able to tolerate subjects that they may not feel comfortable about, but that they should be able to

process, not based on emotions, but based on an actual analysis of the facts, the evidence, the reality,

versus some agenda being shoved down their throat, whether it's through media, through the professors,

and anyone teaching an academia knows that there are professors who have no problem with basically teaching their truths as fact.

And so I've been promoting this, I've been promoting it within my own organization, the Ontario Psychological Association.

I've got a lot of flak from other psychologists who thought, no, we can't allow this type of speech to happen.

That discussion that you're supposed to have had the Travis Deer really, who's October, I believe, when you had those other professors coming in and talking about the issue.

Some psychologists wrote pieces in National Art Media Publication saying, this kind of discussion should not happen.

And this is from psychologists, the ones who are supposed to be best trained to be able to tolerate the discomfort that goes along with discussing uncomfortable topics.

So I was hoping for you to be able to share with the audience your experience in the last two months in trying to promote this,

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