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What Happened to Jordan Peterson?

Louis O’Neill
3 min readFeb 7, 2021

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Author, Clinical Psychologist, Lecturer, and self-help guru for millions across the world, Jordan Peterson rose to stardom in a heartbeat and disappeared just as quickly. What happened?

Depending on who you ask, Jordan Peterson is either a hero or a villain. To some, he’s helped them restore a semblance of order to their chaotic lives, and to others, he’s a dangerous rhetorician who uses his quick wit and mastery of language to promote harmful and divisive ideas.

As many will know, Dr. Peterson rose to prominence for his resistance against Bill C-16 in Canada, which sought to ratify gender expression as protected grounds within the Canadian Human Rights Act.

At the time, Peterson argued that this bill attempted to “legislate speech,” which he believed would begin a slippery slope into tyrannical oppression.

Many others, however, perceived this to be an attack on the legitimacy of gender expression, particularly with regards to transgenderism, and thus began the divided opinions on the Edmonton-born psychologist.

From that moment forward Peterson was thrust into the limelight, making mainstream media appearances on a regular basis. During this period, Peterson was…

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Louis O’Neill
Louis O’Neill

Written by Louis O’Neill

Hello! My name is Louis. I write about the growing cannabis industry, politics, religion, and philosophy. Co-founder of Australians.news

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