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Yes, Jordan Peterson is currently dealing with health issues. According to his daughter, Mikhaila Peterson, he has been diagnosed with Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS), a condition linked to a genetic predisposition that affects the immune system's ability to detoxify mold and bacteria from indoor air. This condition has been causing him significant health problems since 2017, with symptoms worsening recently after exposure to a moldy environment while cleaning out his late grandfather’s house.
As a result, he is taking a break from public engagements, including his podcast and European tour, to focus on recovery. Mikhaila has stated that he is responding well to treatment, though the process is challenging.
Please pray for Jordan to recover quickly. Aside from being one of the most brilliant people in the world, Jordan is the Flagship in the Fleet of Common Sense, and the epinephrine for wokism disease. We need him alive and well. Have mercy, Lord.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef who fled to the US in 2007 after admitting he spied for Israel for a decade, signs a copy of his book after speaking to the press on his first trip back to the region in five years, in Jerusalem on June 19, 2012. | AFP/GettyImages/Ahmad Gharabli
Mosab Hassan Yousef may be the most intense speaker I’ve ever witnessed. Famous for being the son of one of the founders of Hamas as well as a former Israeli intelligence asset, I first encountered him in a viral Dr. Phil clip circulating on X. The exchange was brief, featuring a pair of pro-Palestinian students presenting their perspective only to be forcefully refuted by Mosab. The clip was short, yet compelling.
The Jordan Peterson interview released a few days ago was of a completely different nature. For over two hours an uncharacteristically unsettled Peterson (arms folded across chest, posture rigid until the end when he found himself literally on the edge of his seat) delivered carefully targeted questions to his guest, who responded with a passion most of us in the West have never encountered. As Christians, we sometimes forget the Middle Eastern roots of our faith and the raw, untamed humanity of the historical figures recorded for us in Scripture. We forget that angry and grieving men would shout, tear their clothing, and sometimes even kill.
Watching Mosab — and it is only by listening and watching that one can truly hear him — the reality of this passion is brought anachronistically into the 21st century. Agree or disagree, there is no mincing of words or polite qualifications in his speech. For two hours he gave testimony of the deep and profound darkness that shaped him into a man whose self-professed mission it is to eradicate Islamic ideology. He described growing up beside a cemetery where adults and children were buried, some having died naturally and some in conflict. He lived through a traumatic sexual assault as a 5-year-old boy and was sentenced to silence on pain of death: in his culture, he explained, a father will demand the death not just of the rapist but also of the rape victim. He claims this is considered the most efficient remedy for the shame that would otherwise come upon the family.
He admits freely that he identifies with Israel: both, he claims, are targets of homicidal impulse for no crime other than their existence. For him this is personal.
The intensity with which he delivered his story was chilling. As a young teen, he took to spending the night stargazing from on top of graves, determined to conquer every fear of death and eternal judgment taught to him in the mosque. As a young man with a death wish, he went to Israel as a suicide bomber, only to be captured and offered a career with Israeli intelligence. He claims he had no intention of working for them until experiencing further abuse at the hands of his own people. At this point, the contrast between the abuse of Hamas and the relative kindness of Israel caused his change of allegiance. He was a talented and feral man who had more sense in his gut than to bite the hand that fed him.
Yet it went deeper than that. After his Israeli-funded university education, he eventually began working for Israel and discovered the peace and predictability of an organization that followed strict protocols. According to Mosab, the consistency of their treatment not only of him but of their enemies — beholden not to emotion but to moral and legal regulations — convinced him he was fighting for (as he puts it) “the responsible side, the accountable side.” His words gave the impression of an orphaned child who finally found a father. His eyes grew wild explaining the chaos of his homeland, the unpredictability, the merciless violence done to children and victims.
It is popular to speak of trauma in the West. Perhaps we need a change of perspective.
It is clear from his demeanor that this is an angry and troubled man. What makes him so convincing is the fact that he never denies it. Openly and without apology he describes himself as full of anger and desiring revenge. At some point, he was influenced by the Christian Bible and particularly the New Testament, yet it is clear from his speech that rather than become a Christian he became an esoteric practitioner of what the new age calls “Christ consciousness.” He wanted to elevate his frequencies and ascend (he said in a strange deviation from the rest of the conversation) and have no enemies and love everyone.
“I regret it,” he said suddenly of this stage of his journey. He abandoned “Christ consciousness” as inadequate, and decided he would even sign off on the execution of his own father in the name of justice. Justice must be carried out, he said. For the sake of integrity, he concluded there could be no bias and no exception in his soul. Not even his father, who he not only loves but claims he once worshiped, could be spared. Thankfully, he also concluded that he would not seek himself to kill his enemies, but instead would seek to kill the belief system that created his enemies. Without this distinction, I believe Mosab Hassan Yousef would be a frightening man to behold. It’s clear this is a man who could kill.
These are moral questions most of us never have to face, comfortable in our armchairs as we pick sides in wars we can’t possibly understand.
Listening to him as a Christian, I felt a great deal of grief and found myself praying that he would one day encounter the authentic Jesus Christ, devoid of new age or political trappings. I also experienced a strange fear of the Lord. Who is this God we serve who can draw and even guide a soul who has seen and holds such darkness? Whenever we see a human being express themselves with that raw intensity, they too are made in His image. I found myself wondering, was David’s demeanor ever like this? What about Samson? Did Moses have any of this fierce intensity, this resentment for the ideology that killed a generation of his peers and enslaved his people?
We are so theoretical in the West. When we go to church on Sunday, do we ever see human beings express themselves with such brutal sincerity? Or are we dulled down, civilized, veneered, and speaking pithy platitudes we have forgotten to ask ourselves if we even believe? I fear slipping into casual dishonesty for the sake of social ritual (is this one definition of hypocrisy?), but certainly peace and politeness have their place. Nobody can live at level-10 intensity on a continual basis, yet there is something about facing your own darkness that can embolden you to fight deep moral darkness in the world as nothing else can. If it happened to you then it’s true and to deny it is a lie. So, the question becomes, what do you do with it?
For Mosab, the answer is to speak and warn the West about the ideologies he sees as responsible for his worst nightmares and the ongoing nightmares of thousands of children. If you have the time and the courage, whatever your position on the conflict in the Middle East, his testimony is well worth the watch.
Dusty May Taylor is a writer, artist and prayer servant living in British Columbia, Canada. Her testimony explores themes of trauma, generational occultism, a child's faith and the faithfulness of Jesus. She encourages the exploration of biblical truth without quenching the Spirit or despising one's humanity.
There is a need to reduce Canada’simmigration levels as the country faces what National Bank of Canada economists are calling a “population trap,” where the country is finding it difficult to absorb the number of new arrivals.
We’re the only country that’s ever experienced this.
Marion, who is National Bank’s chief economist, addressed these concerns during an Economic Club of Canada forum last week.
“For the first time in Canadian history in 2023, our capital labour ratio declined,” Marion said during the discussion.
"That’s apopulationtrap. Historically, it’s normally associated with emerging markets. We’re the only country that’s ever experienced this. So this is why we have this urgency to deal with this immigration policy, because it is absorption capability that is undermining living standards.”
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Report shows growing number of immigrants leaving Canada
A “population trap,” according to Oxford Reference, is defined as a situation where no increase in living standards is possible, because the population is growing so fast that all available savings are needed to maintain the existing capital-labour ratio.
In Monday’s report, Marion and Ducharme, said Canada’s annual total population growth should not exceed 300,000 to 500,000 in order to avoid that “trap.”
National Bank notes Canada’s population grew by more than 1.2 million last year, a “staggering” number that would be halved were the government to commit to levels put forward by the bank.
The federal government has been facing constant criticism over its immigration policies as some Canadians continue to find it difficult to break into not only the housing market, but even the rental market.
Last week, internal documents from 2022 were reported by the Canadian Press as showing employees within Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada warned their deputy minister that boosting immigration would affect housing. Though the Liberals still increased the target for the number of permanent residents to half a million in 2025, defending the decision by pointing to a need for more newcomers to help fill a major labour shortage.
The real reason for more newcomers is because they are likely to vote Liberal in the next federal election. Today, the governing Liberal party stands 3rd in polling and it appears they are willing to throw the Canadian economy under a bus in an attempt to improve their standings. This is Trudeau trying to salvage his ego, and it is an indication of the priorities of Liberal cabinet ministers who are helping him.
Under current building goals, the Canada Housing and Mortgage Corporation predicts the country will be short 3.5 million homes, in addition to what’s already being built, torestore housing affordability by 2030.
Fraser, in comments Monday, appeared to signal support for an idea put forward by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre of tying the number of immigrants with the number of homes built. However, he suggested the pledge made by the Opposition leader didn’t focus enough on where the most impactful population growth was coming from: temporary foreign workers and international students, not permanent immigrants.
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Toronto mayor criticizes feds over $5M offer for refugee shelter space, says not enough
“We need to recognize that we have to bring other players to the table, not just provincial counterparts but the institutions who are dramatically increasing the number of study permits they request, sometimes at the personal financial gain of some of the people behind some of those private colleges,” he told reporters.
Ottawa has announced various plans to speed up housing supply, including themodernization of a Second World War-era housing planthat saw hundreds of thousands of homes built from thousands of pre-approved plans between he 1940s and the late 1970s.
Despite this, Fraser pointed to temporary immigration programs that are putting pressure on the housing system and needed addressing, Immigration Minister Marc Miller, along with Fraser and Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, have all signalled in the past the federal government is considering a cap on international students, but want to work with provinces first to try and find solutions.
Currently, there are very few limits on temporary residents — those who come to temporarily rather than permanently settling here — and while Miller said he plans to recalibrate the number who can do so, there are little details on what could change at this time.
Meanwhile, in their report, National Bank economists stress based on current demand and reduce shelter cost inflation, Canada would need to double its housing construction capacity to about 700,000 starts per year, a goal they call “unattainable.”
Is Jordan Peterson the only psychologist in Canada smart enough to see through the madness of the far-left's wokeness? Surely, there must be others! If there are, they should be screaming from the rooftops about this atrocity. But they are silent. What a disgrace!
Judges dismiss Jordan Peterson’s request
to challenge order he undergo media training
By Staff The Canadian Press
Posted January 17, 2024 9:49 am
Updated January 17, 2024 12:07 pm
Ontario’s highest court has rejected an attempt by controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson to challenge a regulatory body’s order that he undergo social media training or potentially lose his licence to practise.
A spokesperson for the Court of Appeal for Ontario says that a panel of judges has decided to not grant Peterson leave to appeal an August 2023 divisional court ruling that affirmed that the College of Psychologists of Ontario could order him to undergo training on professionalism in public statements.
“I can confirm the Court of Appeal did not grant leave to file fresh evidence,” Jason Gennaro said in an email to The Canadian Press on Wednesday.
“The panel does not provide reasons for its decisions.”
Gennaro said Peterson, who is a retired University of Toronto psychology professor, filed his request to appeal the previous court ruling last September and judges made their decision on Tuesday.
Peterson said Wednesday that there are now no legal avenues he can take to challenge the college’s decision to send him “to re-education camp,” adding his “war” with the college has “barely started.”
“I want the entire current crop of minions at the College of Psychologists to publicly apologize and then resign — en masse,” he said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
“They want me to undergo re-education, which they know will take up my time and fail in any case, so they can undermine my reputation and take my licence away anyway.”
Peterson rose to prominence through his polarizing YouTube videos critiquing liberal culture and since at least 2018, the governing body of Ontario’s psychologists — of which Peterson has been a registered member since 1999 despite having stopped seeing patients in 2017 — has received complaints regarding Peterson’s comments.
The college’s complaints committee has said that some of Peterson’s online commentary on a range of issues, from gender transition to climate change, posed a moderate risk of harm to the public and undermined public trust in the profession of psychology.
Justice Paul Schabas wrote in the court’s August decision that the college’s order that Peterson undergo a program on professionalism in public statements balanced its mandate to regulate the profession, “is not disciplinary and does not prevent Dr. Peterson from expressing himself on controversial topics."
Peterson had said his statements were not made in his capacity as a clinical psychologist, but instead were “off-duty opinions” — an argument the court rejected.
The college’s committee previously noted that during an appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, Peterson identified himself as a clinical psychologist before demeaning a former client.
The college’s ethics code requires members to use respectful language and not engage in “unjust discrimination.”
Why are global leaders and institutions so crazy about climate change? Is it really about caring about the world or is it something else?
Global thought-leader Jordan Peterson breaks it down to highlight that it is definitely something else.
Once people internalize that the whole agenda of climate change has nothing to do with saving humanity or the world, they then jump back to the original question, so why are global leaders and institutions so crazy about climate change?
Well, Peterson’s analysis brings us back to an extremely important conclusion of a US thought-leader from the 20th century…
It is imperative that people internalize this important quote from American editor, essayist, and philologist H. L Mencken written in the Minority Report, 1956 –
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule”.
(Minority report: H. L. Mencken’s Notebooks by Henry Louis Mencken, Entry 369, Page 247, Alfred A. Knopf, New York.)
Once that simple fact is internalized, it gives us a totally new paradigm on how to understand all that is going on around us.
A testimony of a former Satanist went viral after he shared how God saved his life.
Carl Sartor, 35, explained how he came to Jesus Christ after years of running away from Him. He previously lived as an atheist for 15 years and a Satanist for five years.
"I've never been a spiritual person. I believed when you die, you was dead. That was it. I've been running from God since I was about five. I would argue you tooth and nail that he did not exist," Sartor wrote on Facebook Sunday.
"I was living in a vicious cycle of drugs and alcohol. I had a severe anger problem," he continued. "I blamed everyone and everything. I also blamed God."
It's amazing how many people don't believe in God but blame Him whenever something bad happens.
Last November, however, Sartor started attending Cross Church in Parkersburg, West Virginia, after hitting rock bottom in his life and almost committing suicide. He noted that Minister Rich Walters had invited him to the church over a year ago, but Sartor wanted nothing to do with God at the time.
"He said, 'I'd love to have you for service.' I said, 'I walk a different path, buddy," Sartor told CBN News. "You'd never catch me there. It will be a cold day in hell before you see me in church.'"
That invitation, however, would ultimately lead Sartor to Christ.
"We didn't even get to the preaching yet because we were still singing, praising, and worshipping. We didn't even make it 15 minutes in that service before he ran to that baptismal tank," Walters shared on Facebook.
"Today, he's a worshipper. Today, he's a believer. Today, he's my brother in Christ. It's like the old song says…' There's just no telling what you're gonna do, in that moment Jesus gets a hold of you!!!!' Praise God!!!" the minister said.
Walter's post included two photos of Sartor taken just several weeks apart. The first photo shows him wearing a "Saved by Satan" shirt, and the latter shows him being baptized at church. The testimony went viral, and the Facebook post has 34,000 likes, 8,500 comments and 11,000 shares.
"I feel completely whole. I feel at peace with myself. There is no longer a void," Sartor told CBN News. "Everything has changed about me."
"I'm spiritually alive now, and that happened when He wrapped His arms around me...and I felt that love," he continued.
Now that Sartor's life has been transformed, he hopes that others will be able to experience the same kind of transformation he underwent.
"For the first time in life, I had a spiritual experience. God is real, and I will continue to walk this path with him beside me. By his grace, I'm by far the best version of me I have ever been. My God is an awesome God, and I pray that everyone gets to experience his love as I have," he concluded his Facebook post.
Jordan Peterson: 'The Bible is more than just true,'
it's the bedrock of civilization
By Ryan Foley,
Christian Post Reporter|
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson appears on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Jan. 25, 2022. | Screenshot: YouTube/PowerfulJRE
World-renowned Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson said the Bible is “way more than just true,”it's the bedrock of Western civilization.
Peterson appeared on “The Joe Rogan Experience” Tuesday, where he lamented that “the culture is dissolving" as he detailed his experience touring the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., and his reflections on society.
“Roughly speaking, we have a bedrock of agreement,” he said. “That’s the Bible, by the way.”
Peterson elaborated on how he came across this realization as he walked through the museum, noting that one floor is dedicated to the “history of the book.”
“For a while, literally, there was only one book and that book was the Bible,” he said. After a while, there were “all sorts of books that anybody could buy,” he added, stressing that “all those books in some sense emerged out of that underlying book [the Bible].”
Later in the discussion, Peterson spoke more about Western civilization, characterizing “fundamental texts” as “the texts upon which most other texts depend.”He cited the work of William Shakespeare as one of several “texts that influenced more other texts” before identifying the Bible as the ultimate source of all “linguistic production.”
“It isn’t that the Bible is true. It’s that the Bible is the precondition for the manifestation of truth, which makes it way more true than just true. It’s a whole different kind of truth. And I think this is not only literally the case. Factually, I think it can’t be any other way. It’s the only way we can solve the problem of perception.”
Teenager Leads His Entire Tribe to Salvation in One of the World’s
Worst Countries for Christians
February 15, 2022
Martinmssp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pakistan is one of the world’s most antagonizing nations for Christians, and yet the witness of a single teenager reportedly turned an entire tribe to Christ in an incredible story of the power of the Gospel to save.
According to Mission Network News, a teenager referred to by the pseudonym Rehan was working at a restaurant when he met a Christian truck driver and missionary who shared the Gospel with him and gave him an audio Bible.
“Rehan said, ‘How is your attitude towards a waiter so gentle? Have you joined some other sect than Islam?’ Safdar gave him an audio Bible,” Nehemia, of Forgotten Ministries International, told the outlet. “Rehan took it home and began listening. Then Safdar suggested Rehan take off from his work and spend time together to answer his queries and questions at the FMI Discipleship center.”
The 17-year-old began to listen to the Bible and kept up a rapport with the truck driver and was eventually baptized as a Christian.
The story of salvation doesn’t end there, however.
The bold, young, newly-baptized Christian began to witness to members of his family, and then his whole tribe, in spite of the immense risk faced by Pakistanis who convert from Islam to Christianity.
Nehemia brought along fellow missionary workers with him to speak with the members of the tribe about Jesus.
“One evening, he gathered all the tribe’s members under one big tent. First, Rehan showed a movie about Jesus,” he explained.
“Then an FMI partner shared a 15-minute devotion about new hope in Christ. That day, a 17-year-old-boy led his whole tribe to the Lord Jesus Christ. They quit their regular practice of offering Muslim prayers.”
The roughly 60 tribe members all accepted Christ as a result of this one young man’s bold witness.
Nehemia urges Christians to pray for the tribe, as well as missionary workers among similar populations in Pakistan, which is ranked by Open Doors USA as the eighth most dangerous country in the world to follow Christ.
And much worse to convert from Islam to Christianity. This will not be the last we hear of this story, I'm afraid.
Jordan Peterson is easily one of the most intelligent men in the world. In fact, I can't think of a single person who could come close to him.
It's hard for an intelligent man to become a real Christian, but Jordan is in the process of doing just that, if not already a full-blown Christian.
The process of amalgamating his extraordinary learning of sociology with Christianity is powerful to watch. Please take 18 minutes out of your life and listen to this.
I am confident that the wisdom Peterson has shown over the past several years comes, in part, from God. I do, however, have a concern that his 'faith' still has some considerable room to grow. Nevertheless, God will complete that good work that He has begun in him. Amen?
Ted McCoy, a historian of prisons and punishment, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Calgary, has tweeted out that the rumours about him are true: any student who cites Dr. Jordan Peterson in his class will fail. He lists himself as anti-fascist, and his pronouns he/him.
According to the University of Calgary, his areas of interest include, Social Inequality and Social Justice, Criminology and Deviance, Health, Illness and Medicine, Work and Occupations, and First Nations. We assume it’s the interest in “Social Justice” that led him to make this censorious claim on Twitter, promising to punish students for citing one of the most renowned scholars in the world.
McCoy has since deleted the tweet, but the internet never forgets. Professor McCoy joins a dubious list of social justice professors like Matthew Sears who have contracted what can only be described as PDS: Peterson Derangement Syndrome.
Blacklisted
People have lost their collective minds when it comes to Dr. Peterson. Bookstores have banned his books, movie theatres have cancelled screenings of films featuring him, The New York Times blacklisted his bestseller from their list, Universities have deplatformed his speaking engagements. It’s all a bit much for a psychologist whose life’s work is dedicated to improving people’s lives.
The PCMadness that governs society these days is absurdly contradictory to health, science and truth. Those who dare to reveal the truth are hounded by smaller minds in an attempt to silence them. It is very disappointing there aren't more professors willing to speak out the truth and derail this madness that the western world is rushing head-long into.
Ironically, Professor McCoy teaches a class called “Self-Regulation” which examines how individuals and groups create, maintain, and follow non-legal codes of conduct and, in turn, regulate themselves and society.
Apparently McCoy is too deranged by his jealousy-fuelled fever dreams of Jordan Peterson to apply the lessons of his course to his own online behaviour.
A documentary tracking the rise of conservative figure Jordan Peterson has faced hurdles getting to the big screen in his home country of Canada, with the creators telling RT the difficulties signal deeper problems in the West.
A psychology professor and author, Peterson first rose to international prominence for his vocal and unapologetic opposition to extreme political correctness and identity politics. The firm stance won him quite a few supporters worldwide – and at least as many critics, who see him as a transgender-hating custodian of the patriarchy, whose ‘archaic’ views don’t deserve any platform in the woke modern world.
Filmmaker Patricia Marcoccia knew Peterson before he became an international phenomenon and she witnessed his meteoric burst into the public consciousness and watched as his profile grew exponentially in recent years. Her observations form the basis of the documentary ‘The Rise of Jordan Peterson’ which expands on an earlier film aired by Canadian public broadcaster CBC last year.
The film was due to be screened for a week in Canada by Carlton Cinema, a Toronto-based chain specializing in foreign and independent movies, but the screenings were scrapped. The cancellation reportedly followed complaints by some employees that they were uncomfortable with Peterson as the documentary’s subject. Controversial subject matter is apparently off limits these days, as the hyper-vigilant political correctness police gain more and more influence over what is (and is not) acceptable to say in public.
The uproar over the Peterson film was somewhat ironic, Marcoccia told RT, because as far as the company knows, those doing the complaining haven’t even seen the documentary, and as such, are hardly best placed to make judgements.
The controversy signals a wider problem with divisiveness, online echo chambers and an inability to accept others’ political opinions in the West, the film’s producer Maziar Ghaderi told RT.
“These days politics in the West has become so polarized that people don’t even speak with people that they disagree with — and social media makes it really easy to do that, and that’s very sad,” Ghaderi said.
“This political stuff shouldn’t be the center of your world.”
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Carlton Cinema’s abrupt decision to back out is not the only cancellation the filmmakers have faced, either. Other theaters rejected the film too, arguing that it was “unethical” to contribute to the “cult of personality” around Peterson, Marcoccia claimed.
“[Some theaters] said if people don’t like Jordan Peterson, they won’t pay money to see a film about him. There were all sorts of reasons we were getting,” she added.
This kind of obfuscation is understandable, but regrettable, Ghaderi said, explaining that the intention with the documentary was to show that Peterson is neither devil incarnate nor conservative messiah — but a regular, living, breathing person. They hoped they could use the film to help overcome increased political polarization in society and encourage honest dialogue between warring factions in the culture wars.
Yet, it seems gone are the days, when people at least waited until they had viewed the contentious movie or actually read the controversial book before calling for it to be scrapped.
The hand-wringing over the Peterson documentary comes as the latest in a series of attempts in the West to silence alternative or anti-mainstream views through public pressure and “cancel culture.” Controversial public figures, often those expressing conservative views, can easily find themselves “cancelled” by liberal society or face outright censorship on social media.
From ironically wearing blackface over a decade ago to suggesting a three-year-old isn’t mature enough to decide its own gender, the list of offenses for which one can be excommunicated from polite society is growing by the day.
Barbara Kay @BarbaraRKay Cineplex now has permitted The Rise of Jordan Peterson documentary to play in their theatres across the country. https://www.thepostmillennial.com/cineplex-stands-up-for-free-speech-will-show-jordan-peterson-film/ …
Over the past couple of years, controversial conservative commentators like Milo Yiannopoulos and Laura Loomer have found themselves banned from Facebook. Others, like Steven Crowder, have had their YouTube accounts demonetized for the crime of expressing non-mainstream ideas.
Eager to comply with the demands of the liberal zeitgeist, YouTube went on a banning spree earlier this year, axing accounts for “extreme” content — but the Google-owned video platform did so with such gusto that even educational channels discussing topics like the history of Nazi Germany got swept up under the ban brush. It’s within that context that the Peterson documentary seems to be offering up a bit more than the PC police can handle.
Despite the hurdles, however, ‘The Rise of Jordan Peterson’ did get a chance for a theatrical premiere after Canada’s Cineplex chain agreed to screen it on a cinema-on-demand basis.
Holding Space Films @HoldSpaceFilms We were blown away by the thoughtful comments, overwhelming support and open conversation at our sold-out world premiere here in Toronto! Thank you to everyone who participated. Hope to see you at one of our upcoming screenings: http://riseofjordanpetersonfilm.com #RJPFilm
Marcoccia and Ghaderi said they had received positive feedback, with viewers describing the film as unbiased and thought-provoking. That’s enough to consider their endeavor a success, they said, since that’s how they hoped the work would be regarded.
There is respect to the audience in that we don’t dumb down things and oversimplify the narrative to make it fit into a simple story. We are being honest and reflect back reality.
