APPRECIATING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES CAN’T START BY FORCIBLY STIFLING DIFFERENCES OF OPINION.

ferred to by a non-binary pronoun, is sure to inspire online flame wars), let us be clear from the outset that our intention here is not to stake out an editorial position on the objective validity of the existence of “ze” and “sie;” nor is this the part of Peterson’s speech that deserves the most attention, though it will surely be the most attacked.

Far more important is the alarm Peterson sounds about the effect that censorship of speech is having on university professors, including himself, crippling their ability to lead and foster the open confrontation of ideas that is essential to learning. It is not necessary to know the details of the University of Toronto’s new mandatory anti-racist and antibias training of professors to understand his sense that he is located at the wrong end of an imposed punitive