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Nonsense.  Speaking out against government mandated speech is not any of that.

And the fact we have so many people believe so is very scary for our continuation of a free society.  We’re falling closer and closer towards compassionate authoritarianism.  Because people have forgotten how messy and disorganized freedom can be some times.

Nonsense.  Speaking out against government mandated speech is not any of that.  And the fact we have so many people believe so is very scary for our continuation of a free society.  We’re falling closer and closer towards compassionate authoritarianism.  Because people have forgotten how messy and disorganized freedom can be some times.

It's because he doesn't actually know anything about half the things on which he mouths off.  He likes to quote 17th-19th century philosophers, but doesn't actually understand their writing.  He likes to weigh in on geo-politics, but doesn't know much about history, economics, war, etc.

There's also the part where he misrepresented the law and what it would do. In other words he was totally full of crap from the jump and plenty of folks knew it.

I wasn't really interested in his points about C-16, but rather his criticism of group-think, censorship and intellectual homogeny (such as the Lindsey Shepherd case at Laurier, years ago). 

I still feel that our colleges and university are suffering for lack of diversity-of-thought, but whatever good ideas Peterson had on this topic is drowning in the other stupidity he promotes.

If you've read anything I've said about the guy in this thread, it should be apparent I think he's a turd.  That doesn't automatically mean that everything he ever said was wrong, and if you think higher education needs to be insulated from even seeing bad or questionable ideas, you're a symptom of the problem I'm describing, and part of the reason toxic asshats like Peterson get any traction.

You're right, her bosses at the uni said the arguments JP presented were "counter to the Canadian Human Rights Code" and "might have violated the Ontario Human Rights Code".  I mistakenly only mentioned the Ontario code:

"The professor added that Peterson's arguments were "counter to the Canadian Human Rights Code [sic]",[18][a] and that what had happened in class had been contrary to the university's Gendered and Sexual Violence Policy; the manager offered the view that it might have violated the Ontario Human Rights Code."

Yeah but Jordan Peterson trans aaaaaaahhhh!  He was so right it took about 5 seconds after he came out disagreeing with it for some lefty uni admins to threaten someone over the code for not even discriminating against anyone but showing a tv clip.  And we already have examples of employers being fined in Canada based on human rights code laws for misgendering trans people.

On March 30, 2021, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (the “HRTO”) held in EN v Gallagher’s Bar and Lounge, 2021 HRTO 240 (the “Gallagher Decision”) that employees who were subject to transphobic slurs, misgendering, and outing by their employer were discriminated against in their employment on the basis of gender identity, gender expression and sex.

But all these "expert lawyers" who didn't know sh!t came out against JP at the time and said it wouldn't happen and you still believe them for some reason. 

So since JP out-lawyered the lawyers without hardly knowing d!ck about law maybe he should become a lawyer once the Stalinist nuts like you take away his psychologist credentials so he can just skip the twitter rage and just sue everyone for free.