Milo:
Psychology professor Jordan Peterson’s announced plan to create a website to inform college students and their parents about “indoctrination cults” in university classes has drawn rebuke from other teachers at the University of Toronto.
His colleagues claim that the website will turn them into targets of harassment.
“As a science professor, I’m not specifically targeted, but I still believe this website is morally wrong,” said” U of T physics professor A.W. Peet in an interview, per CBC. “A number of students and faculty members who I’m in correspondence with are concerned about his plans.”
Peterson rose to fame in conservative circles after his refusal to use gender-neutral pronouns like “xe/xir” became the subject of widespread controversy as special snowflake students on campus verbally assaulted him over his views and called for him to be reprimanded by the University of Toronto. Peterson argued that forcing others to use gender-neutral pronouns as a matter of law was an infringement on personal freedoms in Canada.
The psychology professor intends to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to sift through university curricula for “post-modern neo-Marxist course content”—a legitimate concern that many have over social science, English, and liberal arts classes.
“We’re going to start with a website in the next month and a half that will be designed to help students and parents identify post-modern content in courses so that they can avoid them,” announced Peterson on CTV’s Your Morning in August.
He best be very careful up there.
A voice in the wilderness.
“The psychology professor intends to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to sift through university curricula for “post-modern neo-Marxist course content”—a legitimate concern that many have over social science, English, and liberal arts classes.”
Oh my! He needs to make those tools available to the public when they are up and running. I’d love to see ‘their’ take on the Evening News, campaign speeches by democrats, and legislative bills submitted by liberals.
He needs to put his algorithm out on the webz and crowdsource the research.
Those autistic kids in Kekistan would be invaluable for such a project.
Peterson is a marvel and I love his dry wit, but if you’re tired and put on the headphones, he’ll put you out in about seven and a half minutes. Best wishes to him and his project.
The cockroaches are complaining about the light again.