The pathetic attempt to cancel Jordan Peterson

There was a time when publishers had to battle with external forces for their right to publish controversial authors. It was censorious politicians and moralistic campaigners who marshalled state power and boycotts to try to ensure that allegedly subversive or risqué material never saw the light of day.

No longer. Today, it seems, it is often those within the publishing industry itself who seem intent on making sure that this or that ‘filth’ be banned. We’ve gone from the blue-rinse brigade to the blue-hair brigade, but the effect is still the same deadening intolerance.

Witness the goings on at Penguin Random House Canada, where several staff members have confronted management over its decision to publish a new book by controversial Canadian psychologist / self-help guru Jordan Peterson, called Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life.

According to Vice, a ‘townhall’ meeting was held to discuss staffers’ concerns. Many of them seem to have taken the decision to publish the follow-up to Peterson’s blockbuster 12 Rules for Life incredibly personally.