Student sues university after it targeted her for showing Jordan Peterson clip

Jun 21, 2018 by

by James Risden, LifeSite:

It’s quiet at the Rainbow Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Closed for the summer, no one answers the phones. Toby Finlay, the former administrator for that LGBTQ “safe space” on campus, is no longer there. He has graduated and moved on. Or so claims a representative of the Rainbow Centre in a Facebook message.

The stir sparked by that LGBTQ association at Wilfrid Laurier University last year, though, is still here.

And it’s now grown into a $3.6-million lawsuit against the university and some of its staff by former teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd.

She is taking on the university, associate professors of communication studies Drs. Herbert Pimlott and Nathan Rambukkana, and also Adria Joel, then the university’s acting director of Diversity and Equity Prevention.

In a statement of claim filed in Ontario’s Superior Court last week, Shepherd alleges she has suffered attacks which have left her “unemployable in academia” and have forced her to abandon her doctoral studies or even teach at a university as a master’s graduate.

“Shepherd has suffered nervous shock as a result of the conduct of the defendants which was the foreseeable and intended result. In the alternative, it was the reasonably foreseeable outcome of their conduct and the defendants were negligent in their treatment of her,” reads the statement of claim.

It all started with a complaint filed by university’s Rainbow Centre staff in November last year after Shepherd showed a clip of a TV Ontario show featuring a discussion about pronoun usage in Canada. Shepherd’s class was then studying pronouns.

In that clip used in Shepherd’s class – and deemed offensive to trans people by the Rainbow Centre – University of Toronto professor Dr. Jordan B. Peterson described his objection to the federal government passing a law to force Canadians to use people’s preferred pronouns. In some cases, that means Canadians now have to use new pronouns like “zie” and “zer” for members of the LGTBQ community.

That, apparently, was enough given the politically-correct climate on Canadian university campuses these days to trigger an investigation.

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