Video Creator’s Channel Jordan B Peterson

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After George Floyd Was Killed By Derrick

Shoven, the police officer in Minneapolis, and there were protests that broke out in cities around the world, especially cities around the United States, and some of those protests turned violent and there was riotous, behavior and assaults on police officers and there was arson and looting. And there was there was general disorder and it’s a big political football and people are on all sides of it and they’re defenders of it and so forth and so on, but it occurred to me that I did not even know that the incident that happened with a white police officer and the black gentleman who died who was killed was a racial incident. I I say I did not know that it was a racial incident. All I knew was that the police officer was white and that the man who was killed. was black? It didn’t follow from that that it was a racial incident.

We Were Making It Into A Racial

instead, we being all of us here In the United States, we were making it into a reenactment of old American dramas of lynching and the murder of black people by rogue police and so forth and so on We took that thing and we said, yes see here we have proof of the knee on the neck of black America that’s what Al Sharpton. The activist said at the funeral of Joyful. He said America has its knee on our neck and I thought this great country of 330 million people with 40 million black people and here we are 150 years after slavery in a half century since Martin Luther King was killed really that’s going to be the narrative for our country’s politics for the next decade. For the next 15 years, this is what we’re going to teach to our children. This is how we’re going to arrange our media coverage of these events.

This Is Thats A Disaster For This Country

Okay, so how how can you say that when you also have spoken so eloquently on topics such as the differential incarceration rate. This is not an assault on your statement by the way I’m very curious because obviously you know you’ve spoken profoundly about the danger of that differential incarceration rate and you can see that it’s not that easy to conceptually disentangle, especially if you’re politically motivated, But even if you’re not the the an event like that from that broader narrative that something you know something’s not right structurally and perhaps this is a reflection of it but well. So I I don’t know how to reconcile those two viewpoints. I. Don’t know how you reconcile them with difficulty? I suppose I could say because they do point in slightly different maybe even more than slightly different directions, but I’m trying to keep my perspective right.

I I Do Think That The Advent

of what they call mass incarceration two and a quarter million people under lock and key on a given day. Half of them are 45 of them being black people when we’re 12 of the population as a way of doing business going forward without any sense of urgency of reform without any revisiting of you know our drug laws or our sentencing or whatever without any attention to what is supposed to happen when someone is in prison rehabilitation and whatnot without any exploration of alternatives to incarceration as ways of responding to criminal offending is bad for our country. I do believe that and I believe. The racial aspect of that echoes with our history in ways that are that are dangerous and that we dare not neglect I I’m the same guy On On the other hand, I think if you racialize the discussion of crime and punishment . There was the woman who was murdered at Columbia University a few years ago, and her she was killed by these kids who were just trying to rob her and they ended up stabbing her to death.

She Was White.

She was you know I’m sorry. I don’t remember her name offhand, but you know she was a lovely young woman and innocent is how she’s going to appear in the photograph, and she certainly did nothing to deserve what befell her and she was white the great the other side of it yeah right Tessa Tessa something is her last name. I can’t recall the kids who killed her were black kids from around Harlem. They were in the park Yeah They were looking for a quick score.

They Had A Knife.

The woman is lying she bleeds out now. They’ve convicted. One of them has been convicted and I’m looking at the photo in the newspaper and here’s this black kid. He looks like a black kid who’s 16-18 years old.

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Hes A Kid Hes From This

impoverished neighborhood. He’s black and the woman is white. I don’t want that incident processed in terms of black kid murders white women Yeah yeah okay so maybe it’s an issue. Maybe it’s an issue of conflation, careless conflation of levels of analysis Eh because you you you’re talking about a high-resolution analysis of structural problems in the in the penal system and to to put that George Floyd event to cram. into the same narrative it sort of be speaks of undifferentiated thought and so and then you point out that the danger of that is well.

If Youre Going To Racialize The White Cop

against the black black victim of of the of the of the homicide well, then why can’t the same thing be done exactly the same way when the reverse happens and maybe we shouldn’t do any or we should do as little of that as we possibly can that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take a look at these bigger structural issues, but we shouldn’t cram it all together in one thing because it’s not that’s very well put Jordan that’s exactly what I’m trying to say you said it better than I did well. I listened to you so that was a big help by the way. If we do cram it all into one thing. God help us because there are people and and they’re not going to speak out. There are people who will see it process it just as I hope they would not do black thug murders, innocent white girl and and and harbor a resentment and nurse that resentment and that’s a tinder box that’s a powder keg waiting to be lit and we can dismiss it if we want to but those people are not entirely wrong in their sentiment.

They They Need To Be Disabused

of that instinct that that that instinct to conflate those levels of analysis yeah Yeah yeah well that’s part of the problem. I have with ideology is that that’s ideology is so low resolution it it does that conflation it doesn’t notice and when you get educated you start differentiating it’s like and that’s kind of what you said happened to you when you. became more conservative once you got more educated it’s like Oh, Oh! This is when I take this apart and see all the moving pieces. This is way more complex than my low resolution representation guided me to believe to begin with and that’s that I mean I’ve experienced that many times in my life. When I tried to take problems apart, so they could be solved instead of just discussed.

Lets Say You Have To Make

a high resolution model before you can get anywhere that’s true in clinical practice and I think it’s true in public policy and partly what we’re doing when we’re educating people if we’re doing it right is saying hey you know you’ve got a map of the world, but it’s it’s not very detailed and when you really look at it well. You know here’s the complexity and that’s what we’re actually contending. with people don’t like that because well it’s complex right and you have the simple solution at hand to begin with, but the problem is it It isn’t the right tool for the job you got to make it high resolution Now it takes a lot of work.

Summary

After George Floyd was killed by Derrick Shoven, the police officer in Minneapolis, and there were protests that broke out in cities around the world, especially cities . Some of those protests turned violent and there was riotous, behavior and assaults on police officers . But it occurred to me that I did not even know that the incident that happened with a white police officer and the black gentleman who died who was killed was a racial incident. We were making it into a reenactment of old American dramas of lynching and the murder of black people by rogue police and so forth and so on We took that thing and we said, yes see here we have proof of the knee on the neck of black America that’s what Al Sharpton.& The activist said at the funeral of Joyful.& He said America has its knee on our neck. For the next 15 years, this is what we’re going to teach to our children.& This is that’s a disaster for this country…. Click here to read more and watch the full video