Jordan Peterson on language, discipline and parenting

By now, most of you have heard of Jordan Peterson. He grew up in a small town in Northern Ontario, became a professor in sociology and psychiatry and now has become a world-renowned superstar because of his sometimes controversial views.

This all began when Jordan Peterson opposed the government of Ontario’s Bill C-16 which proposed to tell us how we should address LGBTQ people. He struck a nerve with this position. If speech is not vicious, hateful or disrespectful, the government has no business in telling people how they should talk. It is the widespread use of language by the users of that language that create language. 

When Tradition Meets the Environment

Here in Canada we are celebrating 150 years of nationhood. The native indigenous people are not too thrilled with the celebrations. For them it was 150 years of land expropriation, exploitation and cultural genocide in ‘residential schools’ that were set up for ‘Indian’ children who were taken from their parents to receive a Western education. The goal was to take the ‘Indian’ out of the child and to make them good Canadians. Unfortunately, various kinds of abuse often accompanied this education. These schools were most often administered by Christian churches, using methods that would have embarrassed Jesus himself.