Psychologist and author Jordan Peterson resigned his position as a professor at the University of Toronto and blasted academia as a “stunningly corrupt enterprise” in an op-ed published Wednesday.
Peterson was tenured at the university before he chose to resign and is now professor emeritus, he wrote in an op-ed for the National Post, a Canadian newspaper. He said there were “many reasons” for his resignation.
The first reason Peterson mentioned was that his “qualified and supremely trained heterosexual white male graduate students … face a negligible chance of being offered university research positions, despite stellar scientific dossiers.”
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He further cited the school’s diversity, inclusivity, and equity priorities as problematic, adding that his students were particularly targeted due to his own politically controversial status.
“How can I accept prospective researchers and train them in good conscience knowing their employment prospects to be minimal?” Peterson wrote.
“All my craven colleagues must craft DIE statements to obtain a research grant. They all lie (excepting the minority of true believers) and they teach their students to do the same,” he said. “And they do it constantly, with various rationalizations and justifications, further corrupting what is already a stunningly corrupt enterprise.”
Peterson said there was a growing culture of fear among colleagues in several professional disciplines, such as medicine and law, of a new “woke” authority.
“If you don’t think that psychologists, lawyers and other professionals are anything but terrified of their now woke governing professional colleges, much to everyone’s extreme detriment, you simply don’t understand how far this has all gone,” he wrote.
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“And all of you going along with the DIE activists, whatever your reasons: this is on you,” Peterson said.
