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Staffers in tears over publisher’s decision to print Jordan Peterson book
Penguin Random House Canada’s decision to publish a new book by controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson — who has called white privilege a “Marxist lie” — caused employees to break down in tears in announcement that Peterson’s book “Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life” would be published Staffers in tears over publisher’s decision to print Jordan Peterson book
Peterson notably spoke out against Canadian law Bill C-16, which added “gender identity or expression” to the Canadian Human Rights Act. The law, passed in 2017, made it illegal to discriminate based on gender ... he believed the law criminalized free speech. He also refused to use gender-neutral pronouns — a move that was denounced by the university.
“These laws are the first laws that I’ve seen that require people under the threat of legal punishment to employ certain words, to speak a certain way, instead of merely limiting what they’re allowed to say,” Peterson told the Toronto Sun in 2016. “So the law’s put words into our mouths.”