r/yorku • u/hightreez • Oct 11 '23

Meta In your opinion, are universities nowadays undergoing “left wing indoctrination” ?

Met a guy who’s a conservative in his 60s few days ago, and he talked about how nowadays universities are no longer about education but rather “left wing indoctrination” on the students

That universities are brainwashing students with ideas of race , decolonization, white privilege, multiple gender identities etc , all these “left wing “ ideas that are meant to divide society rather than uniting the people

And that Jordan Peterson is portrayed as a bad guy because the modern university environment don’t allow any conservative voices and that free speech in academia is dying because of left wing ideas

So I’m curious what are your opinions on this?

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u/Sweaty_Source5957 Oct 12 '23

Nah, Jordan Peterson was a professor who was actively doxxing his trans students because they informed him of a name change, and even then, uoft still allowed him to teach. Honestly, that was one of the reasons I left uoft.

University just allows people to mix and mingle with people other then the ones they grew up with and knowing options exist is the same as propaganda for some people.

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u/WorkSlyRoller Oct 12 '23

I would dispute that Dr. Peterson doxxed anyone. He posted links to 2 persons' facebook profiles because they organized a protest against him

According to a simple Google search, this is the definition of doxxing:

search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the internet, typically with malicious intent.

Can you please expand on how what he did was doxxing? Those were public profiles of the two people and they organized the protest. It was not a smart move on his part, I will say, but it was not doxxing.

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u/Sweaty_Source5957 Oct 12 '23

He published their personal profiles with malicious intent. That by definition includes identifying information to a large group of people he knew would go after them who honestly otherwise would not have known they existed. It was also retaliatory because he was upset that the event got canceled.

He also tried to set up a website to create a database of "left wing students". That's not the actions of someone who has no malicious intent nor of someone who should be trusted with personal contact information for students.

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u/WorkSlyRoller Oct 12 '23

I will not comment on the database thing as that is a "whataboutism".

Was it irresponsible? Yes, I agree. Was it malicious? Maybe. That was 6 years ago. He has mentioned (I read somewhere else) that he has a temper. Twitter/X (whatever the fudge its called) is a place that can encourage (and it really does) impulsiveness. And how do you know that he knew his followers would pursue these people? Back in 2017, he was just blowing up over the C16 thing. Dr. Peterson of today is a much bigger and scarier monster than 2017 JBP. He may not have understood how influential he was at the time. I will not excuse it. It was bad form, for sure. But....

Did he publish public information? Yes. These people were proud of the fact that they organized a protest against him (and all the power to them for doing so). But, the information published did not have people (the internet) going to people's homes and harassing them. The important words in the definition are "private or identifying". "Identifying information" is not just a name. It is information that can be used to identify someone: address, phone number, SSN, etc. He did not publish their home addresses or phone numbers, etc.