Toronto ruined by divisive, woke politics, Jordan Peterson tells Elon Musk
Tech mogul Elon Musk took aim at the “woke mind virus” taking over the West in a long-awaited interview with Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson.
Peterson told Musk in the interview, which was livestreamed on X Monday afternoon, that woke politics have made his hometown of Toronto more divided and racist despite the ideology’s stated tenets of “anti-racism” and “inclusivity.”
Musk said the diversity, equity and inclusion policies the Democratic party in America have been championing are “fundamentally anti-meritocratic” and “really just another form of racism and sexism.”
“This group identity nonsense has made things much more (divided.) It insists on dividing people by groups as a primary conceptual distinction between individuals, race, ethnicity and sex,” Peterson said. “I can see it in Toronto. When my kids grew up in Toronto, downtown, they were race-, ethnicity- and gender-blind. They had an unbelievably diverse range of friends. And no one cared.”
He said that woke politics have caused division all over the Western world, even in Toronto, a city known for its multiculturalism and many coexisting ethnicities.
“That started to shift around with this emphasis on group division. It’s a really ugly thing to see,” Peterson said.
