Jordan Peterson: Why I am no longer a tenured professor at the University of Toronto | National Post

All my craven colleagues must craft DIE statements to obtain a research grant. They all lie (excepting the minority of true believers) and they teach their students to do the same. And they do it constantly, with various rationalizations and justifications, further corrupting what is already a stunningly corrupt enterprise. Some of my colleagues even allow themselves to undergo so-called anti-bias training, conducted by supremely unqualified Human Resources personnel, lecturing inanely and blithely and in an accusatory manner about theoretically all-pervasive racist/sexist/heterosexist attitudes. Such training is now often a precondition to occupy a faculty position on a hiring committee.

Need I point out that implicit attitudes cannot by the definitions generated by those who have made them a central point of our culture be transformed by short-term explicit training? Assuming that those biases exist in the manner claimed, and that is a very weak claim, and I m speaking scientifically here. The Implicit Association test the much-vaunted IAT, which purports to objectively diagnose implicit bias (that s automatic racism and the like) is by no means powerful enough valid and reliable enough to do what it purports to do. Two of the original designers of that test, Anthony Greenwald and Brian Nosek, have said as much, publicly. The third, Professor Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard, remains recalcitrant. Much of this can be attributed to her overtly leftist political agenda, as well as to her embeddedness within a sub-discipline of psychology, social psychology, so corrupt that it denied the existence of left-wing authoritarianism for six decades after World War II. The same social psychologists, broadly speaking, also casually regard conservatism (in the guise of system justification ) as a form of psychopathology.

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Indeed. I’ve decided I won’t undergo any anti-racism training. By many reliable reports, it’s a lot of, uh, codswallop. I’ll ask for a religious exemption, saying (what is indubitably true) that it is inconsistent, as it is currently formulated, anti-racism that is, with Roman Catholic doctrine. And I am a Roman Catholic, if a bad one. If they say, no dice, fella, I’ll say, fine, fire me. And perhaps they shall. I’ll then sue them if I can find a lawyer who will take the job on contingency. And I might well find one. In the meantime, I’ll move to, probably, Arizona, where they do seem to have quite remarkably beautiful mountains. LWJ is on board, and so is my fourth soon, Mark. So, RC readers, there you have it. Wish me luck.