Altfish
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You couldn't script it, the free speech guru is upset…
Jordan Peterson is suing a unversity that compared him to Hitler
Jordan Peterson is suing a unversity that compared him to Hitler
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The news is hilarious, but so is the typo.Jordan Peterson is suing a unversity that compared him to Hitler
You couldn't script it, the free speech guru is upset…
Jordan Peterson is suing a unversity that compared him to Hitler
I recommend using "special snowflake" instead of "SJW".You couldn't script it, the free speech guru is upset…
Jordan Peterson is suing a unversity that compared him to Hitler
This suit is in Canuckistan, so I don't know how the law treats such defamation.The article says that Peterson is suing for defamation. Very few people argue for absolute "free speech". There are laws on the books against defamation, libel, slander, and inciting imminent violence.
There is a big difference between criticizing ideas and defamation.
That's actually a very good post topic. I have Concerns about literacy. If I say that it can be transliterated into anti literate.Do you think some of the claimed anti-intellectualism of the last few years might have some roots in examples of intellectuals like this?
Like an informant with a wire? It's hilarious the way people are getting exposed everyday for saying things they don't really mean for themselves.Haha. So not only is he suing them for offensive speech, but he's suing the university and the professors involved for having a private conversation which just happened to be secretly recorded. Apparently private conversations are libel, because someone might record them!
This suit is in Canuckistan, so I don't know how the law treats such defamation.
But here, defamation is legal when it's non-factual. The reasonable person test
wouldn't find a comparison with Hitler as having substance. It's just like when I call
@Quetzal a "poopy head", ie, no one expects to find actual poop on his head (usually).
Contrast this with falsely claiming that someone is a felon....that could be proven
or disproven.
The "private" conversation was recorded by Lindsay Shepard during her grilling by three Laurier university thought police for her daring to use a clip in a class she was giving that had Peterson as one of several featured speakers in it. There was no comment about anyone else in the clip. Lindsay Shepard recorded the conversation for her own protection as she was smart enough to understand that something seriously weird was going to take place during this demanded meeting with her direct superior and two others.Haha. So not only is he suing them for offensive speech, but he's suing the university and the professors involved for having a private conversation which just happened to be secretly recorded. Apparently private conversations are libel, because someone might record them!
Your comments sound to me like they are coming from someone who has not actually spent any time listening to what the good doctor is actually saying but is relying on the "neo-Marxist, feminist, leftist mainstream media's" caricature of Peterson instead. Holy strawman, Batman!I laughed at first, amusing myself with the prospect of this hypocrisy.
But then I became more sombre, as I reflected upon the fact that his besotted young disciples will simply shrug this off as yet another example of their Grand Master being "misunderstood" or purposefully maligned by the neo-Marxist, feminist, leftist mainstream media who are out to stifle freedom of thought in their attempt to render all humanity a collectivist bloc of postmodernist automatons...or something pseudo-intellectual to that effect.
For a free-thinking crowd, the "lobsters" sure do come away with some of the most conspiracy-nonsense group-think going.
You left out "intersectional".Your comments sound to me like they are coming from someone who has not actually spent any time listening to what the good doctor is actually saying but is relying on the "neo-Marxist, feminist, leftist mainstream media's" caricature of Peterson instead. Holy strawman, Batman!
I am still partly human. Please forgive the lapse.You left out "intersectional".
Your comments sound to me like they are coming from someone who has not actually spent any time listening to what the good doctor is actually saying but is relying on the "neo-Marxist, feminist, leftist mainstream media's" caricature of Peterson instead. Holy strawman, Batman!
Whew. I'm glad to hear that because your comments were far below your normal intellectual province.I was being facetious, although I am admittedly not a fanboy of the good doctor.
Whew. I'm glad to hear that because your comments were far below your normal intellectual province.