U of T profs alarmed by Jordan Peterson's plan to target classes he calls 'indoctrination cults'

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When I was in school? You could use a tape recorder for lectures in class. Most classes were Lectures. If people want to listen to the lectures without the tuition? More power to them. You can't gain class credit for doing that. Not much to gain or lose there.

There are lectures on youtube already. Have been there for years now.

Some professors are okay with it -- others aren't.

They had a mother in a news article recently. She was under the impression her child was being bullied by the teacher. So, she placed a recorder in the backpack. THIS was after she brought her concerns to the powers that be - and was swiftly blown off by the school. Yep, now they want to charge her with a crime. So, they didn't want to listen to her or have proof given to them either. In elementary school? Who are they going to take the word of? Teacher or child if they were not given anything? Chances are teacher.

If I think my neighbor is doing something illegal, do I have the right to break into his house looking for evidence?

Illegal is still illegal... Catch-22, I'm afraid.

So, how you prove your point to the school then? Do we depend upon 'he said she said'?

Sometimes that's all we have to go on for cases such as rape -- you know, an actual crime?

Schools have administrations - whom I feel are the bigger problem than the teachers most of the time - are going to circle the wagon because that's what they do most of the time. Less effort for them.

Well, there's a solution -- forget about who said what and go on your feelings...

How would you suggest rooting them out - the ideologies? I found most professors are very good. Then you do have some whack a doodles.

Why would the whack a doodles need "rooting out"? Seems they'd be pretty easy to spot.

Yeah. No. Not what I meant at all. lol nice leap there! Legitimate professors aren't going to care, because people record their lectures for notes anyway. I did that in school too. I took notes, and listened to the lecture again to adjust them. It's not like this wasn't standard practice. Maybe something has changed since then, but it was no biggie when I was in college.

Legitimate professors have varying opinions on the subject -- Of course, I'm sure any professor who refuses will be under extra scrutiny...

College lectures aren't something they are going to put on their IPod as part of their favorite playlist.

You'd be surprised... Barnes and Noble had an entire series of "Portable Professor" CDs not too long ago... I've got a few of them on my phone now... helpful on long drives.

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I use words carefully,

I know.

and never called them cancer:

And if, hypothetically speaking, I were to say that you've "chewed through your muzzle," (something I would never do, of course) I could honestly say that I never called you a dog (which, again, I would never do)

metastisize
2. to spread injuriously:
Street gangs have metastasized in our city.

3. to transform, especially into a dangerous form:
The KGB metastasized after the fall of the Soviet Union. Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.

Shouldn't there be a 1. before the 2.?

You use your words carefully -- carefully enough to allow for allusion and connotation to say the things that some people might not have the courage to say themselves (Not that I'm accusing you of such a thing; I would never say that)
 
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If I think my neighbor is doing something illegal, do I have the right to break into his house looking for evidence?

Is your neighbor's house open to the general public?

Schools and colleges are public buildings. There is no
reasonable right to privacy in a classroom. The whole
point of education is the free flow of information.

Except when it becomes a den of indoctrination.
 
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You use your words carefully -- carefully enough to allow for allusion and connotation to say the things that some people might not have the courage to say themselves (Not that I'm accusing you of such a thing; I would never say that)

If you had seen the times I've been reported, you
would know that if anything, I don't hold my tongue
well enough sometimes. I tend to say what I mean.

Back to metastasize: Can you give me a better word
to describe the depth and damage done by the
changes done to the Democratic party in my lifetime?

Saying that they moved left is like saying Atlantis
had a slight flooding problem.
 
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Is your neighbor's house open to the general public?


You think a classroom is? Trying walking in uninvited and sitting down. Bring a camera.

Schools and colleges are public buildings. There is no
reasonable right to privacy in a classroom. The whole
point of education is the free flow of information.

Now that just sounds like socialism to me... Universities are for-profit institutions, educating those who pay the tuition.

You want free education? You should've voted for Bernie.
 
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If you had seen the times I've been reported, you
would know that if anything, I don't hold my tongue
well enough sometimes. I tend to say what I mean.

And you have again... I never said you couldn't learn from your mistakes.

Back to metastasize: Can you give me a better word
to describe the depth and damage done by the
changes done to the Democratic party in my lifetime?

Sounds like you're conceding that you do consider them like a cancer...

Saying that they moved left is like saying Atlantis
had a slight flooding problem.

And you hate the left; we get that.
 
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Indoctrination with an extremist ideology

Who gets the privilege of defining "extremist," and determining when it's a good or bad thing?

"My country, right or wrong!"
"Love it or leave it!"
"Give me liberty or give me death!"

Extremism?

So I hope he approaches the issue in a reasonable way, so that it won't turn into witch hunts.

As do I -- hope, but not expect. He can only benefit from witch hunts.


Was my guess wrong?[/QUOTE]

Quite. Try googling this time.
 
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Who gets the privilege of defining "extremist," and determining when it's a good or bad thing?

"My country, right or wrong!"
"Love it or leave it!"
"Give me liberty or give me death!"

Extremism?
My personal definition would be that an extremist ideology is one that encourages conflict between people. But you're right, it's unnecessary to add "extremist", since a college class is not the right place for any ideological indoctrination, no matter if it's extremist or not.

Quite. Try googling this time.
I googled it, and it's about accusations towards Hillary Clinton. It could be seen as a witch hunt too, unless there's some solid evidence to back it up.

My guess in my post was that not many people care about withholding judgment and avoiding witch hunts. Now you're saying that my guess was "quite wrong". In what way was it wrong?
 
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My personal definition would be that an extremist ideology is one that encourages conflict between people.

Then Peterson himself is guilty. Wouldn't you agree?
 
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Then Peterson himself is guilty. Wouldn't you agree?
I don't think so, do you have any examples of him promoting an ideology that promotes conflict between people?

And what about my earlier guess, in what way was it "quite wrong"?
 
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I don't think so, do you have any examples of him promoting an ideology that promotes conflict between people?

You don't see anything about his plan, as described in this thread, that's going to promote conflict between people?
 
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You don't see anything about his plan, as described in this thread, that's going to promote conflict between people?
Of course the plan causes conflict, it has already caused a lot. But in that way, basically anything can cause conflict in the right (or wrong) circumstances. What I meant are actual ideologies that encourage people to hate or resent others, and as far as I know, he doesn't promote anything like that.

So, about that "quite wrong" guess? :p
 
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Of course the plan causes conflict, it has already caused a lot. But in that way, basically anything can cause conflict in the right (or wrong) circumstances.What I meant are actual ideologies that encourage people to hate or resent others, and as far as I know, he doesn't promote anything like that.

"We're going to start with a website in the next month and a half that will be designed to help students and parents identify post-modern content in courses so that they can avoid them," he told CTV's Your Morning in August.

"I'm hoping that over about a five-year period a concerted effort could be made to knock the enrolment down in postmodern neo-Marxist cult classes by 75 per cent across the West. So our plan initially is to cut off the supply to the people that are running the indoctrination cults."
"Women's studies, and all the ethnic studies and racial studies groups, man, those things have to go and the faster they go the better," he said. "It would have been better if they had never been part of the university to begin with as far as I can tell."

"Sociology, that's corrupt. Anthropology, that's corrupt. English literature, that's corrupt. Maybe the worse offenders are the faculties of education."

In an interview with As It Happens last year, Peterson said the "continual careless pushing of people by left wing radicals is dangerously waking up the right wing."

"So you can consider this a prophecy from me if you want. Inside the collective is a beast and the beast uses its fists. If you wake up the beast then violence emerges. I'm afraid that this continual pushing by radical left wingers is going to wake up the beast," he said.
 
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No, I love my country and know that they would
destroy everything good in it if they had the chance.

And you hate them for that -- we get it.
 
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"We're going to start with a website in the next month and a half that will be designed to help students and parents identify post-modern content in courses so that they can avoid them," he told CTV's Your Morning in August.

"I'm hoping that over about a five-year period a concerted effort could be made to knock the enrolment down in postmodern neo-Marxist cult classes by 75 per cent across the West. So our plan initially is to cut off the supply to the people that are running the indoctrination cults."
"Women's studies, and all the ethnic studies and racial studies groups, man, those things have to go and the faster they go the better," he said. "It would have been better if they had never been part of the university to begin with as far as I can tell."

"Sociology, that's corrupt. Anthropology, that's corrupt. English literature, that's corrupt. Maybe the worse offenders are the faculties of education."

In an interview with As It Happens last year, Peterson said the "continual careless pushing of people by left wing radicals is dangerously waking up the right wing."

"So you can consider this a prophecy from me if you want. Inside the collective is a beast and the beast uses its fists. If you wake up the beast then violence emerges. I'm afraid that this continual pushing by radical left wingers is going to wake up the beast," he said.
It seems to me that he's claiming that the indoctrination in colleges will result in a dangerous conflict between left and right wing radicals. He's not saying that's a good thing, he's trying to prevent it from happening, and that's the literal opposite of an ideology that encourages conflict.

And I have a strange feeling that you're avoiding a question.
 
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It seems to me that he's claiming that the indoctrination in colleges will result in a dangerous conflict between left and right wing radicals. He's not saying that's a good thing, he's trying to prevent it from happening, and that's the literal opposite of an ideology that encourages conflict.

Except he's not preventing it so much as going on the (what he perceives to be a counter-) offensive. He's tired of playing defense, so he wants to attack. His language is quite clear to the unindoctrinated.

And I have a strange feeling that you're avoiding a question.

If you can't see the Right's years-long witch hunt against their favorite "witch," Hillary Rodham Clinton,
then I'm afraid that there's not much I can do to help you.
 
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Except he's not preventing it so much as going on the (what he perceives to be a counter-) offensive. He's tired of playing defense, so he wants to attack. His language is quite clear to the unindoctrinated.
That seems like a stretch to me. In the quotes you posted, he said that the conflict that he believes to be coming soon is "dangerous". That doesn't sound like he wants it to happen.
If you can't see the Right's years-long witch hunt against their favorite "witch," Hillary Rodham Clinton,
then I'm afraid that there's not much I can do to help you.
I'm afraid you totally forgot what the question you're avoiding actually was. And also that I agreed it seems like a witch hunt too.
 
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That seems like a stretch to me. In the quotes you posted, he said that the conflict that he believes to be coming soon is "dangerous". That doesn't sound like he wants it to happen.

Except that what he's saying is that the liberal indoctrination is already in force -- the "cults" are already in the classrooms and need to be rooted out. What exactly is he trying to prevent with his "nonviolent warfare"? (His words, remember -- and if you know a way to declare any kind of war without encouraging conflict, I'm listening)


I'm afraid you totally forgot what the question you're avoiding actually was. And also that I agreed it seems like a witch hunt too.

Don't be afraid -- just because I lost interest doesn't mean I'm avoiding. In any event, those in power have often used "witch hunts" to defend their power from would-be usurpers. Peterson's taken a novel twist by reversing it: calling a witch hunt against those he perceives as already in power -- I suppose the indoctrinated will see his motives as altruistic... how could they be otherwise?
 
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