![]() But if they put any crimp in Peterson’s plans, he could easily make up the difference some other way. Such guidelines are under development at U of T, says spokesperson Althea Blackburn-Evans. Peterson says he would always prefer his work be associated solely with himself but that he’s “disinclined to look a gift horse in the mouth.” Peet has no qualms with crowdfunding academic research per se, but thinks there should be rules governing it - for example, when a third party like Rebel intervenes on a professor’s behalf. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. But the network did spend the hours after the massacre at a Quebec City mosque torquing garden-variety confusion into a conspiracy theory that the killer was, in fact, Muslim. Peterson says he knows “for a fact” Levant isn’t Islamophobic, noting they were recently at a meeting with several moderate Canadian Muslims. Rebel contributors have included Paul Joseph Watson, a 9/11 Truther and friend of uber-conspiracist Alex Jones Pizzagate delivery man Jack Posobiec, who was briefly Rebel’s “Washington bureau chief” and Tommy Robinson, former leader of a gang of racist hooligans called the English Defence League. At one anti-Peterson rally on the U of T campus, then-Rebel contributor Lauren Southern took the microphone as if she were an attendee, not a reporter when organizers said they wanted to give trans people priority to speak, she lied and said she was one. Peterson says he watches very little of the online news outlet’s output, which is not surprising: it is not known for its academic or journalistic rigour, or indeed for consistent sanity. Rebel’s intervention certainly adds an edge. Peet is rather more blunt: “He has been dehumanizing trans and gender-diverse people … for fun and profit.” Tyler Anderson / National Post Lawyers’ opinions have convinced de Sousa that Peterson has nothing legitimate to fear from the law, and nothing except a “tut-tutting letter” - which he calls a “regrettable decision” - to fear from the university administration. “It does seem to me rather tacky that he has been posing as a victim of PC prejudice and representing himself as at risk of jail or dismissal from his job,” says Ronald de Sousa, an emeritus professor of philosophy at U of T. Naturally, this outcome does not sit perfectly well with Peterson’s detractors on campus. But all of it is unbelievable,” says Peterson, referring both to the money and to the last eight months in general. It currently sits at 266 per cent of its goal: $195,230. When Peterson was denied a research grant to study the link between personality and political beliefs, including belief in political correctness, Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media framed it as a left-wing conspiracy and launched a crowdfunding campaign on his behalf. That’s about three-and-a-half times his salary from the university. 1 last year, Peterson had 161 supporters on the crowdfunding site Patreon, contributing US$1,058 a month as of this week, he had 3,609 supporters contributing an astonishing US$39,084 a month. Jordan Peterson, Milo Yiannopoulos backed to become University of Glasgow rector despite clashing with gender policy.Controversial University of Toronto prof gets warm welcome at Western day after protests at McMaster.‘An opportunity to make their displeasure known’: Pronoun professor denied government grant. ![]() And the efforts to silence or censure him seem to have accomplished little other than boosting his profile, making him a hero to opponents of political correctness and fattening his wallet. Peterson hasn’t stopped repeating the statements. ![]()
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