Censorship by the university, no. I think he has a good argument against the Canadian government.
Not at all. Canadian Bill C-16 only added transgenderism and gender identity to the list of characteristics that you aren’t legally allowed to discriminate against. The same law had already been on the books in the province that Peterson lived in for years before C-16 hit the federal stage. Needless to say, nothing bad happened to Peterson. He claims that the bill is too vague and could lead to all manner of horrifying things happening to him, including people being censored for “criticizing someone’s fashion,” which is not true at all. The lawyers of the Canadian Bar Association even came out and debunked all of the claims that Peterson made about this bill. The beautiful irony is that not one time was Jordan Peterson’s freedom of speech inhibited in any way by the Canadian government or his university, and now Jordan Peterson is the one that is trying to put a stop to people’s freedom to speak out against him. He is the only character in this story that has actually taken strides to hinder free expression.
So I did some more research and I concede to you on this point. The Canadian “civil rights” code protects certain classes of people only against speech that advocates genocide, which I don’t have a problem with. I thought they had broader hate speech laws.
Yeah, I also thought that too at first because Peterson and company were saying it so fervently that I didn’t really question him, but if you’re interested in more on C-16, I just posted a link to the Canadian Bar Association’s rebuttal to Peterson where it explains the actual effects of the bill.