"[About cowardice in the leadership of institutions:] What we've seen is that you don't actually need a majority of people inside an institution to agree with these ideas for these ideas to gain force. [You need] a tiny minority and you need cowardice at the top. Cowardice at the top, that is the key ingredient. You need people at the top who are willing to sell out the authority of the institution and the values of the institution that have taken decades, sometimes centuries, to accrue. Basically for the short-term benefit of not being called a bad name."
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"Journalist or Heretic? | Bari Weiss | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - S4: E29" (at 1h23m27s), The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, 10 June 2021.
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