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This is episode 20. An interview and discussion between Dr. Peterson and

Transliminal Media's Jordan Levine. It's entitled Ideology, Logos, and

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It's been a few years since we last had a first interview and a number of

things have happened in your life, both personally and in terms of your career

and probably your intellectual development as well. So maybe just to start

things off if you could summarize in your own words, what that experience has

been like for you just to catch up our viewers on what's been happening.

Well, the most significant event was the fallout from a series of videos

that I made in late September of 2016. I made one video critiquing the policy

framework within which Bill C16, Federal Bill C16 was likely to be

interpreted, taking particular issue with its provisions for compelled

speech in relationship to pronouns, but more fundamentally I would say by

criticizing the theoretical framework regarding human identity that had been

instantiated into the law that the legal claim and this is mostly stemming

from legislation and policies that were developed in Ontario, but that will

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