Jordan B Peterson
3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2017–2020
1:00:09 · 2.3M views · May 18, 2017
Jordan Peterson's testimony at the Canadian Senate hearing on Bill C16, which added gender identity and expression to protected grounds. He argues against compelled speech.
Referenced as the hearing that propelled Peterson to public visibility and as a source on the compelled speech debate.
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> despite numerous respectable legal scholars informing him that you could never get in trouble for not using a person's preferred pronoun because of this bill. this video As mentioned, his employer's lawyers did think so. The Adversarial Model (legal system) doesn't consider that some parties come to other conclusions. It would be ill-advised to listen to "experts" that are not part of a case, taking the advice of pundits* or other unconnected parties is not compelling evidence of legal finding. *It's primarily in the US, that the mass media promotes education pundits as corroboration in legal matters.
I'm not sure if the compelled speech was actually adopted into law. I'm referring to Jordan Peterson's interview and senate hearing in relation to the law. [1] [LINK] [2] this video
This was precisely the argument in the Canadian Senate, 2 years ago, that propelled Jordan Peterson to public visibility. this video