JORDAN PETERSON: HOW THE LEFT MANUFACTURED A FOLK DEVIL.
Over the past few days, Jordan Peterson’s critics have been doing their utmost to publicise his forthcoming book, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life. The famous clinical psychologist announced the publication on his YouTube channel on Monday, and within hours the book was being widely denounced on social media for its hateful content. This is quite a feat of the collective imagination, given that nobody has read it yet.
Much of the furore has come about because employees at the Canadian branch of the publisher, Penguin Random House, have called for the book to be cancelled...
...This is just the latest example of a new trend of activist employees threatening to strike for ideological reasons...
As Ray Bradbury predicted in Fahrenheit 451, books will be burned to protect everyone’s feelings as much as to block the content within them.
But I’m not sure if even he would have predicted that it would be the publishers’ staffers who would be manning the flamethrowers...:
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