This Is Professor Jordan Peterson.

He spent time as a professor at Harvard University, before retiring back to Canada and taking a position at Toronto U.

Recently he has found his position as professor at Toronto U put in jeopardy, due to a disruptive wave of protests. As a psychology professor, he finds it difficult to agree that biological gender should be dispensed with in favor of subjective, self-defined gender-identity. From an educational standpoint, he can not teach his material without provoking these protests.

Protests have continued on, as recent as yesterday (March 17th, 2017.) His classes are being regularly interrupted.

In a strictly practical sense, he may not be able to continue conducting his classes. The situation is to the detriment of the education of his students.

Yesterday's protest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMsi61OtkE4

This beanie wearing cuntface...

Some of you may be familiar with this issue, by extension of the protester meme'd later with the name "SmugglyPuff." After one of her assailants engaged in, and was about to be charged for violence, she went on to tell officers that she "saw nothing." Then, winking at the camera and giving the middle finger.

https://youtu.be/K-IFcCY0m3E?t=9s

This, of course, is far and away from the reality of the issue, though.

Professor Peterson is, in no exaggeration, a truly decent human being. He's devoted his life to understanding history's most undignified moments, in an effort to shed light on what underpinned them.. and to ensure they may never be repeated. His lectures on historical Nazism and Communism are absolutely riveting. The mind boggles at how anyone who spends more than 10 minutes listening to him, might accuse him of what he's being accused of.

So I thought I'd make this just to see if we can get a bit of support for the man. Honestly, though, I think anyone can benefit from listening to what he has to say. He releases most of his lectures online, and they are genuinely very entertaining. It's a breath of fresh air, with all of the social tension we've all been drowning in lately.

This is the intro video to his Youtube channel. I'll leave this here for those interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbOeO_frzvg

For something more off-the-cuff, you might enjoy the podcast he did with Joe Rogan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04wyGK6k6HE&t=1662s

In any case, I've enjoyed having his work as a regular part of my feed.

Regardless of where a person falls on the LGBTQ2 side of the issue (and please don't turn this into your own opportunity to spew nonsensical hatred in whichever direction you lean) it should be readily apparent that the events unfolding around Professor Peterson are disastrously perverted from their own intentions.

The injustice to him, aside, I think it's an even greater injustice to society if this man loses his right to educate upcoming generations.

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FP Edit!
I'd just ask that any further debate that people would like to have with me about the issue be directed to my inbox so we can dispense with the 140 character limit. I'm also pleasantly surprised to see that so much of the conversation was free of mud-slinging or anti-trans rhetoric. Most people seem more or less indifferent about how the next expresses their gender / sexual identity, and smart enough not to associate the inflammatory protesting with the whole of gender-ambiguous people -- which is what I'd hoped. We're all individuals first and foremost, after all