on this. Remember when pride was a sin? I'm going to give it to you in my own special way. I've always been weirded out by anybody who is proud about their situation for which there's been some bigotry. Now I'm a super pro-gay community in LGBTQ but I never understood why you would be proud of your sexual orientation. I do understand why you'd not be ashamed of it. That part makes perfect sense. But why would you be proud? I feel like just breaking even would be the goal here. How about we just don't feel bad about it? Not feeling bad seems like the goal. To just not be bothered by it. To ignore it. To make it no longer part of our decision making. That's the goal. As soon as you're proud about it you've overcompensated. You've just taken one mistake and replaced it with another one.

This is why I've never understood white supremacists. And I think even yesterday I was accused in public of being a white supremacist. I don't even understand that. Here's why. Why do I get credit for what strangers did? Because the white people who invented things and conquered countries and did awesome things, none of them were me. I didn't do any of that. I didn't found any countries. I didn't invent anything. Well I did but I mean nothing important. So why would I take pride, just as an example, why would I take pride in being white? It doesn't make sense. That's taking pride in someone else's accomplishment. I'm not even entirely sure if I should be proud about my own accomplishments but you know I think it works well if you're proud about what you physically do in the world and if it's good for the world that's probably a positive thing. You know, you get a little payoff for doing something good. Oh I feel pride. It feels good. But if you're proud of strangers' accomplishments, what is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? To say that somebody is a white supremacist is almost giving them a pass, isn't it? It's almost like giving them, okay we will accept your interpretation of things and you know just disagree with it. That's not what's happening. What's happening is people are taking credit for strangers' accomplishments. Let's just call it out. Now if you're going to put a white hood on and dance around in your white robes in the KKK, you just told me that you get credit for a stranger's work. The work that strangers did because you're a similar trace amount of genetic code is similar. What? That's ridiculous.

So I'm completely with Jordan Peterson although my reasons for it might be different. I don't know. I can't be sure. But I don't think people should be claiming pride for anything. You shouldn't be proud about being gay. You shouldn't be proud about being white. You shouldn't be proud about being black. It's just what you are. How about we just stop talking about it if it doesn't matter? Because it doesn't. Wasn't Tesla gay? Now somebody do me a fact check. I believe it's rumored that Isaac Newton was gay. Leonardo da Vinci rumored to be gay, right? So somebody says Turing, don't know about that. Tesla was not. Somebody says Tesla was not. But anyway whether they were or whether they were not, da Vinci or Michelangelo or both, I know. But certainly you could go into history and you could find the most amazingly accomplished LGBTQ people. Should the LGBTQ people take pride in that there were so many famous people and geniuses that were also in their community? And the answer is no. No you shouldn't. It's just a coincidence. Has nothing to do with you. Stop making it about you. If somebody was really smart 200 years before you were born you don't get any credit for that. None. I give you no credit for somebody else succeeding 300 years ago. Sorry. Sorry that's not on you. You did nothing. Nope. Nothing. You get no credit for that.

So Ethan Klein went after Jordan Peterson for going after Ellen Page and Ellen Page's doctor. And Ethan Klein said this is pretty, this is quite a public fight. He says of Jordan Peterson, he goes, Jordan you have completely lost the plot. Anything that was inspiring about you is long gone. You have sold yourself out to the worst among us. The worst among us. Now you are nothing more than a useful idiot to the hordes of hateful bigots. You have forsaken any semblance of decency. Shame on you. Twitter. No, shame on you, Jordan Peterson. To which I say the worst among us, who exactly is he referring to as the worst among us? I believe he's referring to the political right, is he not? Is he not referring to Republicans in general as the worst among us? Because I don't think that he's saying Jordan Peterson you took sides with let's say the violent people in the January 6 protest. I don't think he's saying that. It looks like he's saying that simply being associated with the political right is making you associate with the worst among us. That's how I read it. I mean again you don't know what he was thinking when he wrote it but the way I interpret it is that ordinary Republicans are quote the worst among us. Because I know he's not talking about the subset of Republicans who do bad things because that wouldn't make sense because there's a subset of every group who do terrible things. So I know he's not so dumb as to say that the entire political right is equal to whatever the small number of bad characters is. Just as I would not say the political left should be defined by the high percentage of criminals who are Democrats because most are not. The majority are not. Turns out I think that's true anyway.

This is the sort of talk, Ethan's, that causes people to get hurt. I mean when I predicted that if Biden got elected Republicans would be hunted, this is sort of the thing I had in mind, right? This is related to that. If somebody of this size audience, talking about Ethan here, can say that the political right is quote the worst among us without being specific that he's talking about the worst among the worst, because the claim is not really true, is it? I have seen Jordan Peterson being embraced by the political right. That part's true. But I don't remember the KKK interviewing him. Do you? Oh no. I don't remember Jordan Peterson associating with somebody who was some kind of a bigot like or at least objectively speaking. You know, so everybody gets called the bigot today. Yeah I don't know. It's funny. It's interesting to watch this little dustup but you know what it feels like? It feels like projection, doesn't it? Because the Democrats are all some version of Amber Heard it seems like. And I feel like Johnny Depp is some version of the political right in the weirdest way, right? Because if you look at his career and the way he dresses and the way he lives you're not thinking political right when you see any of that. But you know the way we process things we put it into buckets and Amber Heard seems like she's a Democrat because the Democrats seem to do this cluster B thing where they do a terrible thing and then the way they see the world is that you're doing the terrible thing. And so when Ethan says that Jordan is associating with the worst among us I wonder if he's worried that he's doing that because the Democrats have some bad people in their category too. So I wonder if he wakes up and thinks I don't know if I'm on the side of the good people. And then suddenly he's making a public attack against somebody who's basically him but the left version of him. I don't know. It looks a little like projection. You can't say that. I mean I'm not qualified to make that determination but am I wrong that all Democrats feel like some version of Amber Heard? You know it's just the way our brains have been let's say primed.

Yeah so I would say I'm going to agree with the comment I'm seeing on Locals. I don't agree with everything that Jordan Peterson says but it's always interesting. It's always provocative and I think it's always additive in the sense that he's not trying to hurt people. He's trying to make things better and I thin