Jordan Peterson quits!

Good news, everyone! Jordan resigned from the University of Toronto.

I resigned from my position at the University of Toronto. Before I turned sixty, I was professor emeritus. Those who had served their term with some distinction are considered to be superannuated faculty. They had to take my skeleton out of my office and make me teach and research full time at the U of T. I loved my job. My students, undergraduates and graduates were all positive towards me. The career path was not meant to be. There were many reasons, including the fact that I can now teach many more people.

That was the only reason. He has a large and gullible audience, and he is making a lot of money. When grifting pays so much better, why stay with that honorable and difficult job of teaching? Most of his article is about making excuses.

The chances of my heterosexual white male graduate students being offered university research positions are very low. Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity mandates are why this is happening. The hiring committees at the universities that I worked for had done everything reasonable for all the years of my career to ensure that no qualified minority candidates were ever overlooked.

This is not true. Heterosexual white people are still being hired by universities. Is it possible to look at the statistics from the NSF?

The share of academic positions held by women with SEH degrees increased from 1999 to 2019. Underrepresented minorities hold a larger share of these positions than they did in 1999, although their share remains small and is less than their share of the population. The share of those in academic positions with one or more disabilities increased slightly, but still less than their share in the population.

Less than 9% of the academic population are a minority. I don't think you can argue that white students don't have a chance of employment because black people or women are hired to the exclusion of white men. That is obvious. It should be possible for an ignoramus like Peterson to figure it out.

They want to get him personally.

My students are also partly unacceptable because they are my students. I am not allowed to be an academic because of my unacceptable positions. This isn't just an annoyance. My job was morally indefensible because of these facts. How can I train prospective researchers to be aware of their employment prospects?

That is a bit more plausible. If a student applied for a position at my university, we would first look at their work, not their mentor. That is the most important criterion. If they learned that the trans and gay people are prejudiced against him, then that could affect their employment possibilities.

Wait until you see #2 if you think that excuse is bad.

This is one of many issues of appalling ideology currently demolishing the universities and the general culture. There is not enough qualified black, indigenous and people of colour to meet diversity targets quickly enough. This is a common knowledge among any remotely honest academic who has served on a hiring committee. We want to produce a generation of researchers who are completely unqualified for the job.

Whoa. It is the same as #1, with the added poison of the assumption that the hires are unqualified for the job. If you disagree with him, you aren't even telling the truth. It's plain and simple that Peterson is a bigot.

My colleagues have to craft DIE statements to get a research grant. They all lie and teach their students to do the same. They do it constantly, with various justifications, further corrupting what is already a stunningly corrupt enterprise. Some of my colleagues allow themselves to undergo so-called anti-bias training, conducted by Human Resources personnel, lecturing inanely and blithely and in an accusatory manner about theoretically all-pervasive racist/sexist/heterosexist attitudes. It is a precondition for a faculty position to be filled on a hiring committee.

I can promise that I won't discriminate against women or minority students if I make such a statement. It is easy to do. I will give equal opportunity to all of my students. I guess Jordan is not able to do that.

Before I can be on a hiring committee, I have to take anti-bias training. The Human Resources personnel are qualified to do that and have expertise that I don't. It is arrogant that they would be dismissed.

I need to point out that implicit attitudes can't be changed by short-term explicit training. If those biases exist in the manner claimed, that is a very weak claim, and I am speaking scientifically here.

Yes? So? There are obstacles to hiring minority faculty. We want to make everyone aware of bias for the benefit of potential employees, so we are not trying to change the prejudices of existing faculty. Once again, he is a buffoon.

The accreditation boards for graduate clinical psychology training programs in Canada are planning to refuse to accredit university clinical programs unless they have a social justice orientation.

Oh, gosh. What is wrong with expecting an accredited psychology program to pay attention to social justice? I had to look up what that means.

A social justice approach can be defined as scholarship and professional action designed to change societal values, structures, politics and practices such that disadvantaged groups gain increased access to these tools of self-determination.

Jordan doesn't want disadvantaged groups to have self-determination. He is a bigot.

We get his real bete noir after that. We can't have those people running around.

The practice of clinical psychology has likely been doomed by the recent legislative changes in Canada, which claim to outlaw so-called conversion therapy, but really make it exceedingly risky for clinicians to do anything ever but agree always and about everything with their clients.

Conversion therapy doesn't work. Not allowing clinicians to commit conversion therapy on patients is not a violation of trust or privacy.

He went to indict Hollywood.

For those of you who think that I am exaggerating the case, or that this is something limited in some trivial sense to the universities, consider this report from Hollywood, which shows just how far this has gone. In 2020, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences embarked on a five-year plan to expand their definition of the best. What fruit is the offspring of the DIE ideology? According to a recent article, penned by Peter Kiefer and Peter Savodnik, but posted on former NY Times journalist Bari Weiss's Common Sense website, Weiss left the Times because of the intrusion. By becoming its most ardent supporter.

Right. There are no white actors in the movies.

This guy is so ridiculous that he gets published. He told us that Putin agrees with him.

The University of Toronto! You got rid of that asshole.