"What it truly means is 'let’s aim for fewer white men in positions of authority,' which would be a fine idea if race and sex were reasonable criteria by which to judge applicants, and if it wasn’t motivated by a broad set of 'progressive' beliefs."
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"Given today’s downward cultural spiral, it’s disturbing but not surprising that the makers of a thoughtful new documentary about Jordan Peterson are having a hard time finding somewhere to show their film."
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Related: The Rise Of Jordan Peterson is now available digitally!
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"This is nothing short of madness, and it demands a response. Hence, No Safe Spaces. The film details the atrocities that are being committed on those who dare to say 'That Which Should Never Be Uttered.'"
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Related: See the trailer here.
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"Is free speech under threat on university campuses today? Are governments right to intervene?"
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JBP: From the National Post, a documentary on free speech on campus...
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"Intellectually serious Christians who come across them cannot help but be fascinated by the way in which these public intellectuals have been able to reach down into our secular culture and extract an unmistakably Christian message, without putting off readers or listeners who do not have any concrete religious convictions to speak of, let alone any experience of institutional Christianity."
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JBP: An article assessing Sir Roger Scruton and me from the Christian perspective.
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"Disturbingly, a number of left-wing activist journalists and researchers have taken to Twitter to use the fake book as a line of attack against Mikhaila and her father."
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"Imagine Dr. Peterson working as a psychologist at Arkham Asylum, where Joker spends most of his time when he’s not killing people."
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JBP: Interesting article about nihilism and the Joker...
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THE POST MILLENNIAL - REBECCA CHRISTIANSEN & BARRETT WILSON
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"We’re not going to shut down an event every time someone threatens us. Threats are par for the course."
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JBP: The self righteous cowards and censors win again.
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"The threat to freedom of speech continues on university campuses as administrators struggle to find new ways to deal with security requirements."
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"The 'disappearing' of dead white European male writers, however magnificent their achievements, may well be normalized across Canada before long."
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JBP: And the great writers disappear in a cloud of political correctness...
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NATURE - PHIL CASSEY
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"If scientists want genuine, rapid change, we must implement actions to address this diversity crisis. One such action is for male academics to delay their senior promotion until bias in their department or at their institution has been reduced..."
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JBP: This from what was once was one of the two most highly esteemed scientific journals in all disciplines around the world.
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"Our rules commit us to ending all forms of discrimination, bigotry and stereotyping."
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FIRE - DR ILONA REDSTONE
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"When a worldview is mistaken for a universally accepted truth, advocates of that view are positioned to start to see those who dissent as mistaken, sometimes even morally bereft, in their inability or refusal to recognize the world 'as it really is.'"
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JBP: On Marxism and identity politics/political correctness...
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"At LTH we see that heterogeneous groups often contribute to a more creative environment..."
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JBP: Academic positions now for females only in Sweden?
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"So, here I am saying it as loudly as I can. Women have been lied to for years, and that’s why they’re so unhappy. There is only one solution..."
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JBP: On the lies our culture insists upon telling young women.
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"In her latest book, the essayist is skeptical of #MeToo and nostalgic for the era before the Internet."
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JBP: Meghan Daum, in the New Yorker, on the "Intellectual Dark Web."
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“What kind of message does this send to a young woman? That they are not supposed to speak out against something they disagree with.”
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JBP: Narcissism, masquerading as virtue...
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"A joke like Gervais’ isn’t controversial—it’s actually speaking truth to power."
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JBP: It is almost impossible to imagine that this issue really exists.
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"Our eyes deceive us when we view a video like this. In the hands of Future Advocacy, the video is revealed to be a fake. But this tech could be used by bad actors to disrupt elections all over the world."
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JBP: Soon we'll be reduced to meeting in person to know what's real and what isn't.
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The worst thing a creative person can do is not create... Dr. Jordan Peterson explores the elusive problem of describing the value of beauty and the necessity for artists to work their craft even when they often struggle to financially benefit from their work.
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An open conversation with Rex Murphy about the modern state of education, politics, identity, and new media.
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JBP: A very interesting musical piece based on my words, and those of Jonathan Pageau.
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The 12 Rules Tour is now on hiatus until October or November. We hope to visit major cities in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and a number of venues in Eastern Europe, the Baltic countries and Russia. Stay up-to-date on tour events here.
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"You have the right to act in self-defense, and in the defense of others, when they require it. But you shouldn't go looking for trouble. It's far too easy to justify acting with resentment and hatred while telling yourself that you are merely defending what is right. Perhaps you are. But you’d better be sure about that or you will stir up some terrible variant of hell that will move rapidly beyond your control."
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