Cambridge University has rescinded its fellowship offer to controversial professor and author Jordan Peterson, who came to international prominence for objecting to a Canadian law adding transgender people to the Human Rights Act.

Peterson claimed that the bill would make it illegal to misgender someone by classifying it as hate speech. Critics say he either misunderstands the law, or has purposely mischaracterized it. He has also routinely criticizes what he calls “cultural Marxism,” claiming there is an academic assault on “the West.”

The University of Toronto psychology professor was to spend two months at Cambridge’s Faculty of Divinity. That changed on Wednesday when they reversed their decision and pulled the invitation following a review, which itself was the result of a public backlash.

The college made the announcement via Twitter, and according to Peterson failed to tell him first. He called that “particularly appalling,” and accused the school of “signaling their solidarity with the diversity-inclusivity-equity mob” in his response to the situation.

Jordan Peterson requested a visiting fellowship at the Faculty of Divinity, and an initial offer has been rescinded after a further review. — Faculty of Divinity (@CamDivinity) March 20, 2019

“It’s not going to make much difference to my future, in some sense,” he writes. “I have more opportunities at the moment than I can keep track of, let alone (let’s say) capitalize on…But I think that it is deeply unfortunate that the authorities at the Divinity school in Cambridge decided that kowtowing to an ill-informed, ignorant and ideologically-addled mob trumped participating in an extensive online experiment in mass Christian and psychological education. Given the continued decline of church attendance, the rise in atheistic or agnostic sentiment, the increasing irrelevance of theological education and the collapse in interest in such matters among young people, wiser and more profound decisions might have been made.”

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“I believe that the parties in question don’t give a damn about the perilous decline of Christianity, and I presume in any case that they regard that faith, in their propaganda-addled souls, as the ultimate manifestation of the oppressive Western patriarchy, despite their hypothetical allegiance to their own discipline,” he added.

“I think that it is no bloody wonder that the faith is declining (and with it, the values of the West, as it fragments) with cowards and mountebanks of the sort who manifested themselves today at the helm.”

He continued by saying he “[wished] them the continued decline in relevance over the next few decades that they deeply and profoundly and diligently work toward and deserve.”

Peterson also used his Twitter to draw attention to a professor who had criticized the school’s decision to extend him a fellowship.

From one of the faculty members at Cambridge who is pleased at the Faculty of Divinity @CamDivinity rescindment of my planned two month fall fellowship… https://t.co/AsehtEQ7Y3 — Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) March 21, 2019

And another from the same source: https://t.co/eF1LnQrusM https://t.co/YjX8ZQg6mB — Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) March 21, 2019

“We can confirm that Jordan Peterson requested a visiting fellowship, and an initial offer has been rescinded after a further review,” a spokesperson for the university said. “[Cambridge] is an inclusive environment and we expect all our staff and visitors to uphold our principles. There is no place here for anyone who cannot.”

“We are relieved to hear that Jordan Peterson’s request for a visiting fellowship to Cambridge’s faculty of divinity has been rescinded following further review,” said the university’s students’ union in a statement to The Guardian.

“It is a political act to associate the University with an academic’s work through offers which legitimise figures such as Peterson.”