Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism

Why HN readers recommended it

HN cites it as the classic example of an interviewer misrepresenting a guest, though opinions on who came out better differ.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Channel 4 News

Topic

jordan peterson interview

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

14

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I think "watch X destroy Y" is just youtube's version of clickbait. I suspect you'll find videos like that tailored to most groups on youtube. I sometimes use them as trailers for longer talks that I might enjoy - although I always feel a little …

• I've recently encounter Jordan Peterson. He speaks very eloquently about topics such as gender differences from (IMO) a rational and scientific point of view. I'm linking an interview with him which I find fascinating: Both for the information he conveys and for the manner in …

• Jordan Peterson talked about this in his infamous Cathy Newman interview. I think it's worth a watch: [VIDEO]