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Jordan Peterson Is Right--Inequality Does Not Always Imply Discrimination

• https://fee.org, by Marian L. Tupy

By now, millions of people in the United Kingdom and the rest of the world have watched the Channel 4 News exchange between British journalist Cathy Newman and Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson. It has been the subject of countless online comments; hundreds of articles have been written analyzing both Newman's and Peterson's performance. At the root of the disagreement between the two was the notion of equality of outcome.

Where does it come from and what, if anything, should be done about it? To start with, it is important to note how extraordinary it is that we are having this kind of conversation in the first place. For millennia, nobody thought that equality—in any sense of the word—was conceivable or even desirable.


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