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    I wonder how this is gonna pan out for Cambridge University.

    Not well, I guess.

    Peterson was invited to be a visiting fellow at Cambridge Uni. The the invitation was rescinded due to the reaction from the Student Union. Who said..."Peterson isn’t welcome at Cambridge because it’s an ‘inclusive environment’.

    I was under the impression that a university IS the place to challenge ideas.

    https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/20…

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    • best part is cambridge inferring that it was peterson who made the requestGnash
    • can't really blame them. it must be exhausting to be nursing all the traumatized kids endlessly.Gnash
    • puppy rooms aren't cheapGnash
    • Imagine someone challenging your ideas....the horror.Morning_star
    • although, JP has to take responsibility for nurturing a brand that thrives on the controversy.Gnash
    • I'm not sure he'd agree with that. It's only seems controversial because of the Left's stubborn adherence to dogma and ideology. The inability to reflect...Morning_star
    • ...analyse and adapt is disheartening.Morning_star
    • yet he does things like the Lobster Collection. Not for the money, but to (very successfully) wind-up the left and get them tweeting about him.Gnash
    • It quite devious actually. the herd are all having this "gotcha" moment and he's just playing with them. That signals to me that he's kinda working it.Gnash
    • Not that he shouldn't, but in context of, cap. "A", Academia, the cambridge situation isn't that surprising.Gnash
    • Agreed. I've seen him deny that he's a provocateur. But, the lobster stuff and some recent appearances would suggest he's getting a little more 'playful'.Morning_star
    • I've read from people at Cambridge that it wasn't just a case of stroppy students insisting he be no-platformed.Fax_Benson
    • Dish the dirt Fax, what do you know?Morning_star
    • don't know anything - just that Divinity SU is one part of one of 30 colleges that make up the university and not as simple as Cambridge bans JPFax_Benson
    • someone at Cambridge was saying the offer was hastily given then withdrawn on review. I agree banning academics from Unis is dumb as rocks, just to clarify.Fax_Benson
    • JP's views aren't controversial. I'm honestly baffled. He's a boring Canadian professor. The world has gone mad if this is the enemy.inteliboy
    • Though the left love eating themselves alive. This is why the right have that
      'smug' look, deservedly so.      inteliboy
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