Limiting the Woke? | Christopher Rufo | EP 335

"At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue." -Elon Musk

I left college because something happened that pulled the rug out from under my world and I was not even the actual victim. This thing had a rippling affect. So later, after I moved to another town, I re-enrolled in a community college to try to finish some sort of degree. My professor spent the first 20-30 mins of each class pontificating his anti-Trump rhetoric. When he pointed at me and asked me to recite a joke I had heard recently, preferably political, I stood up, gathered my things and stated”this class!!!” I walked away from any degree because I just realized the universe had other plans for me.

As a parent of kids in the Florida School System, I am THANKFUL and APPLAUD the work you Christopher Rufo and Governor Ron DeSantis are doing for my children! Please keep us parents apprised of anything you need us to show you support on. Thank You, as always Dr. Peterson for your great host of guest you present. ...you always seem to find a vast majority of great thinkers and overall.... just COMMON SENSE! 🙂 God Bless you both and pray for America and the rest of the people in the world, we can all overcome this evil trying to prey on our children.

I am a retired special ed teacher who worked in an inner city school. As teachers we fought like crazy to help our students to see a positive future for themselves. Many of our students were only in special ed because of extreme problems in the home - homeless, parents with mental health issues or drug addiction who moved15 times in the 8 to 12 years that the children were in schools. Now the schools are destroying all the work we did to help these students learn how to establish self-efficacy.

I’m 16 years old and in high school and ur speeches open up my mind to so many things that I can see in my own environment

In a world gone mad it's so refreshing listening to a man with more knowledge in his tear ducts than 95% of the global population

Thank you for this thorough uplifting conversation about Christopher Rufo’s background and his current work. I learned a lot and believe he’s definitely on the right track. I wish him GREAT SUCCESS! -From a concerned Black American 🇺🇸

Thank you both for your most inspiring conversation. I am Canadian and as I witness the incessant creep of wokeism in society, I am afraid of what our collective future might hold. I lose sleep thinking about it, but you give me hope for brighter days ahead.

Rufo is a really smart young man. He gives me hope for the future. We need more bold, intelligent, thoughtful young people like him. 👏

So refreshing to see Jordan's guest Chris so young, so articulate, so spirited in his pursuit and in this discussion. Another great example of how to lose one's life to gain it, hard but rewarding.

I work in academia, I confirm: 100% true. A million thanks to both men, they're brilliant!

I just appreciate Chris and how happy he looked at the constructive comments from Jordan at the end. He was genuinely pleased with Jordans response, as he should be. But the child-like reaction of a student being praised by a tutor was heart warming. Good work to Mr Rufo.

I'm glad you decided to speak with Christopher Rufo; he's doing really important journalism concerning child indoctrination, which is, in my opinion, the biggest threat to the well-being of this country that we've seen in a long time.

Dr. Peterson , I’m sorry you’re being bullied to leave Canada 🇨🇦 for your voice! You got this. Don’t let them win you! I’m a Northern Alberta Girl , from back in the day… And if You can tolerate the winters and isolation. You can make it through Anything! Keep moving upward!

What a GREAT conversation! Listened 3 times cuz my intellectual processing speed isn't quite fast enough to take it all in at once 😅. Many thanks to you both!

So glad you're taking a stand against the insanity taking place in this country! Thank you!

Wow, Christopher Rufo you have really exceeded all expectations. So articulate, so forthright, and so thoughtful and strong. You are restoring America at its foundation. Keep being careful and thank you for your incredible preserverence and sacrifice. What a factastic dialectic between the two of you. Some of the best content and dialog you could ever hope for.

Rufo hit the nail on the head. It comes down to production. In each of the three cities he filmed for his documentary, it was the collapse of industry that in turn shredded families and cultural institutions. In this wasteland of meaningful employment, periodic infusions of money via welfare does absolutely nothing to change the base reality.

As a retired high school teacher - first this is long overdue and I loved it! Will listen again. My first question is how can we support you from Oklahoma? Second question is how will you orchestrate the teacher evaluations? In the past certain language is required, in addition to the referenced learning styles (and other research that did not help our students learn but helped some college professor sell a textbook.) The evaluations are a combination of the state and the district and are huge influence on teachers and the structure of each class taught.

As a conservative high schooler I do see that many people part of my generation follow all these extreme left movements religiously like "gender is a social construct." Also you are completely right about how many leftists will just completely ignore and refuse to speak to anyone who slightly differs from their view. Also love your 12 Rules for Life books.