The professor has become an alt-right folk hero, his crowdfunding account thriving and his upcoming book already an Amazon bestseller. Peterson’s response — that it would soon be considered unacceptable to even host a debate, as TVO did — proved prescient. Shepherd, the teaching assistant, was called to account in front of a three-person panel to explain her decision to expose her students to the clip. In the Closing of the American Mind, the late Allan Bloom wrote that the destruction of prejudice is an admirable goal. The Laurier tribunal wasn’t debating Lindsay Shepherd — they were chanting doctrine, ice pick close at hand.

Source: National Post November 20, 2017 22:30 UTC