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In the category of the deeply satisfying/highly amusing, there surely can be nothing better than watching a group of students, many of them white, furiously chanting “F–k white supremacy! F–k white supremacy!”

Presumably, they not only checked their privilege but also, flushed with settler guilt, paid extra at the counter to do it.

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This was part of the infantile exercise a motley crew of protesters indulged in Monday night at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., where the University of Toronto psychology professor and now best-selling author Dr. Jordan Peterson was giving a lecture.

While Peterson spoke to a near-capacity crowd (an estimated 820 people, according to the university) inside the storied old Grant Hall, a group a fifth the size (an estimated 150) outside it banged on garbage bins, screamed, spun noisemaker whirligigs, blew whistles and chanted obscenities.

One of them, a 38-year-old woman who is not a Queen’s student and who was identified Wednesday by the Kingston Whig-Standard as Allison York, got so carried away pounding on a stained glass window, she broke it.