First, my qualified and supremely trained heterosaxual whi te male graduate students (and I’ve had many others, by the way) face a negligible chance of being offered university research positions, despite stellar scientific dossiers. This is partly because of Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity mandates (my preferred acronym: D I E). These have been imposed universally in academia, despite the fact that university hiring committees had already done everything reasonable for all the years of my career, and then some, to ensure that no qualified “minority” candidates were ever overlooked. My students are also partly unacceptable precisely because they are my students. I am academic persona non grata, because of my unacceptable philosophical positions. And this isn’t just some inconvenience. These facts rendered my job morally untenable. How can I accept prospective researchers and train them in good conscience knowing their employment prospects to be minimal?
Jord an Pet erson: Why I am no longer a tenured professor at the U of Toronto
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First, my qualified and supremely trained heterosaxual whi te male graduate students (and I’ve had many others, by the way) face a negligible chance of being offered university research positions, despite stellar scientific dossiers. This is partly because of Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity mandates (my preferred acronym: D I E). These have been imposed universally in academia, despite the fact that university hiring committees had already done everything reasonable for all the years of my career, and then some, to ensure that no qualified “minority” candidates were ever overlooked. My students are also partly unacceptable precisely because they are my students. I am academic persona non grata, because of my unacceptable philosophical positions. And this isn’t just some inconvenience. These facts rendered my job morally untenable. How can I accept prospective researchers and train them in good conscience knowing their employment prospects to be minimal?Yes. Now we realize that tenured is not everything. A lot of things we shall pursue . . .
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If he cannot train white heterosexual males in good conscience, he perhaps should train non-male non-heterosexual non-white students for a change.
He can't train less qualified students over more qualified in good conscience either.
Discrimination is discrimination, it's insane that we try to 'correct' the legacy of historical discrimination by actively discriminating against young men and it's young men that will bear the biggest impact, a group with the highest suicide rate, already under massive societal pressure to succeed.
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I do think the field- clinical is 90% women btw- discriminated against the students Of certain people (see Inbar’s paper on this). I don’t think there’s any particular discrimination against straight (white) guys- they’re very rare in the field. A real affirmative action program would actually elevate men if any race, given how few there are in clinical psychology
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First, my qualified and supremely trained heterosaxual whi te male graduate students (and I’ve had many others, by the way) face a negligible chance of being offered university research positions, despite stellar scientific dossiers. This is partly because of Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity mandates (my preferred acronym: D I E). These have been imposed universally in academia, despite the fact that university hiring committees had already done everything reasonable for all the years of my career, and then some, to ensure that no qualified “minority” candidates were ever overlooked. My students are also partly unacceptable precisely because they are my students. I am academic persona non grata, because of my unacceptable philosophical positions. And this isn’t just some inconvenience. These facts rendered my job morally untenable. How can I accept prospective researchers and train them in good conscience knowing their employment prospects to be minimal? -
"supremely trained"
On that point he’s right. UT is an HRM in clinical psych.
A slight follow up- I do not enjoy how the media paint Peterson as a backwater crank. Getting a job at Toronto is HARD. Getting tenure at Toronto is even harder. Peterson is probably in the top 0.1% or the field, it’s not like he’s art laffer or Lisa cook. He’s not even coasting on his past accomplishments to bully platforms into broadcasting him yelling at clouds (Kruggles or Summers). He’s treated like a freakshow