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Ontario court rules against Jordan Peterson, upholds social media training order (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Uh, he literally became famous by spreading panicky fear about the bill C-16, the law that extended minority human rights protections to trans people. Nobody had heard of him before that and his most notable book was "maps of meaning" which is basically rambling.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think he actually started his climb towards the spotlight by causing people to call for his expulsion as a professor at the University of Toronto for refusing to call a transgender student by their name and refusing to use their preferred pronouns. Unfortunately, as is often the case, the protest against him simply made him reach a wider audience with his hate speech.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Whichever way he came into the spotlight, those weren't the things I saw of his interviews and lectures. While it was obvious he was at least a bit sexist, his talks about personal responsibility and bringing back the better parts of traditional values weren't so bad.

    I mean, stopping a divorce by making people make their marriage work by actually working on it? Not a crazy idea, yet not exactly something that is often said in the last few decades.

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