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Nobody wanted Jordan Peterson to be right.

The University of Toronto psychology professor was an accomplished academic, but was little known outside his field until he decided to oppose Bill C-16, intended to make discrimination based on gender identity or expression illegal under federal human rights law. Peterson gained attention for arguing the bill was an unconscionable infringement of freedom of speech; eventually, he has said, hate speech restrictions will make it impossible for us to debate transgender issues, or to decline, if asked, to use personal pronouns like “ze” and “zir.”

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Peterson should have been easy to dismiss as an old fart, but the campus left has become so predictably hysterical that Peterson’s opposition to the bill — now law — has been elevated to high drama, complete with violent altercations and screaming matches. The professor has become an alt-right folk hero, his crowdfunding account thriving and his upcoming book already an Amazon bestseller.

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He is now waging a war against what he considers a conspiracy of post-secondary Marxists trying to indoctrinate youth — and this, too, should be easy to dismiss, but for the increasing number of campus controversies perfectly demonstrative of his claims.