Why I am no longer a tenured professor at the University of Toronto
Jan 21, 2022 by Jill
by Jordan Peterson, National Post:
The appalling ideology of diversity, inclusion and equity is demolishing education and business.
I recently resigned from my position as full tenured professor at the University of Toronto. I am now professor emeritus, and before I turned sixty. Emeritus is generally a designation reserved for superannuated faculty, albeit those who had served their term with some distinction.
I had envisioned teaching and researching at the U of T, full time, until they had to haul my skeleton out of my office. I loved my job. And my students, undergraduates and graduates alike, were positively predisposed toward me. But that career path was not meant to be.
There were many reasons, including the fact that I can now teach many more people and with less interference online. But here’s a few more:
First, my qualified and supremely trained heterosexual white male graduate students (and I’ve had many others, by the way) face a negligible chance of being offered university research positions, despite stellar scientific dossiers. This is partly because of Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity mandates (my preferred acronym: DIE). These have been imposed universally in academia, despite the fact that university hiring committees had already done everything reasonable for all the years of my career, and then some, to ensure that no qualified “minority” candidates were ever overlooked.
My students are also partly unacceptable precisely because they are my students. I am academic persona non grata, because of my unacceptable philosophical positions. And this isn’t just some inconvenience. These facts rendered my job morally untenable. How can I accept prospective researchers and train them in good conscience knowing their employment prospects to be minimal?
See also:
Christian nurse is to sue clinic over a training course that said the Bible was racist for mentioning ‘darkness’, By Harriet Dennys and Alexis Parr, Mail On Sunday:
‘Left unchallenged, such institutional bullying will only be emboldened…I feel passionate about this. I hope my case will prove that teaching these discriminatory ideas – as though they are factual and true – within the NHS or within academia is wrong.’
How Marxism created the West, by James McElroy, unherd:
Marx argued that man’s liberation from primitive superstition would come via political and economic revolution, then science and technology. “The first path led to Lenin, the revolution, and the Soviet Union. The second path led to us [the contemporary secular, woke West].
How trans identity politics imprisons us all, by Tim Black, spiked:
The supposed conflict between an individual’s authentic inner feeling of gender and the inauthentic gender roles they are expected to play is at the heart of the trans cause…it expresses, in arguably its purest form yet, this simple but pervasive cultural ideal – be true to yourself.
