Jordan B. Peterson hits university with $1.5M defamation lawsuit
by Douglas Ernst, Washington Times:
‘This is a warning, let’s say, to other careless administrators and professors’.
Clinical psychologist and University of Toronto professor Jordan B. Peterson is using the legal system to send a “warning” to academics who liken him to “Adolf Hitler” and white supremacists.
Canada’s Wilfrid Laurier University was hit with a $1.5 million lawsuit by the bestselling author of “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote for Chaos,” due to the content of a viral video featuring its professors. Teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd was disciplined for showing clips of the author’s debates on Canadian television.
“I think this is a warning, let’s say, to other careless administrators and professors who allow their ideological presuppositions to get the best of them to be a bit more careful with what they say and do,” Mr. Peterson told the Toronto Sun on Wednesday.
Mr. Peterson is represented by Howard Levitt, who also spearheads a $3.6 million lawsuit filed by Ms. Shepherd against the university.
“The politically correct on campus should not think that they can defame people, slander people and bully people implicitly and explicitly with impunity,” Mr. Levitt said. “This isn’t just some internet troll mouthing off in a way that no one pays attention to and doesn’t give any credence to. These are professors and head of gender equity studies making comments that are atrocious about Dr. Peterson who is one of if not Canada’s most prominent intellectual.”
Watch: Professor Peterson sets out his reasons for the lawsuit. Scroll forward about 33 minutes to hear some of the scurrilous accusations made against him.
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