France has probably produced the most reprehensible coterie of public intellectuals that any country has ever managed

Heh.  A couple of interesting passages from Jordan Peterson interview.  

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First:

Jordan Peterson:  Marxism killed at least a hundred million people in the 20th century and there's still apologists.  One in five social scientists identifies as a Marxist.  It's like really? Really?  That's really where we're going to take this?  After the bloody 20th century we're going to say, well that wasn't real communism or something foolish like that even though we had multiple examples of exactly what happens when those doctrines are let loose in the world?  So what happened in the 1960s, in the late 1960s as far as I can tell, this happened mostly in France which has probably produced the most reprehensible coterie of public intellectuals that any country has ever managed.  In the late 1960s when all the student activists had decided that the marxist revolution wasn't going to occur in the Western world and had finally also realized that apologizing for the Soviet system was just not going to fly anymore given the tens of millions of bodies that had stacked up, they performed what I would call a philosophical sleight of hand and transformed the class war into an identity politics war and that became extraordinarily popular, mostly transmitted through people like Jacques Derrida who became an absolute darling of the Yale English department and had his pernicious doctrine spread throughout North America.  Partly as a consequence of his invasion of Yale and what happened with the postmodernists is they kept on peddling their murderous breed of political doctrine under a new guise and resentful people all over the world fell for it and I don't consider that acceptable.  You know, one of the things I've learned, for example, I teach my students in my second year now the class about what happened in the Soviet Union in the Gulag Archipelago and I use Solzhenitsyn as an exemplar.  Alexander Solzhenitsyn as an exemplar of existential psychology because I think he's actually the wisest of the existential psychologists even though he was primarily a historian and a literary figure.  Well, most of the students don't even know what happened in the Soviet Union but why is that exactly?  And the reason for that is that radical leftist ideologue intellectuals in the West have never properly apologized for the role they played in that in the absolute murderous of the 20th century so students don't even know about it.

Then there is: 

Jordan Peterson:   Some of you may know that I participated in a debate on free speech, a so-called debate on free speech that the University of Toronto hosted.  It turned into a forum and and whatever that is, but it's certainly not a debate.   But one of the things I did when I was talking to the university administration was to suggest how they might deal with the possibility of protesters and so I said, well, that's easy I know how you can have absolutely zero protesters.  Have it in the morning they won't get out of bed till ten.  So we had it at nine o'clock in the morning and there was one MPP Member of Parliament who showed up to hand out some pamphlets.  Not a single protester.  Oh it's like if you want a controversial speaker on campus just have it at 7:00 in the morning.  You won't get a protester within 50 yards of it because they'll still be sleeping off last night's pot and alcohol induced hangover.