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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I guess the better question is: why should they?
He espouses views that are mostly poorly thought out and presumptuous, betrays his own world of logic constantly, and is generally not nearly as important as you make him out to be.
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The CBC interviews all sorts of experts and pundits who the same could be said about. Do you think the University Gender Equity Specialists they routinely have on the air are great titans of intellect? Most of them resort to mouthing platitudes and pieties when their opinions are contested. Is Naomi Klein a great intellectual? No. She's a professional controversialist. And yet CBC has her on all the time.
Peterson is a Canadian academic with 500k Youtube subscribers. He's well-regarded enough in his field to hold professorships at Harvard and the University of Toronto. Whether you agree with his politics or not, that makes him a legitimate, high-profile thinker.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Most of it isn’t much more than MRA appeasing rhetoric. I know that sort of stuff usually lights your fire, but I can’t imagine it would for many Canadians.
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The University Gender Equity Specialists they had on the Current the other night going on about toxic masculinity represent even fewer Canadians. And yet their views are aired unchallenged.
The CBC has effectively abrogated its role as a forum for open public discourse when it comes to anything to do with race and gender, and yielded the bully pulpit to ideologues who champion a credo followed by a small fraction of Canadians. They've stopped being custodians of our public forum and become banner-waving, passionate combatants in the culture wars. This agenda will only marginalize them further, and shrink the CBC's audience to a sadly narrow segment of the population. Which is a shame, because much of what the CBC produces when they stick to hard news and subjects like science and technology is valuable.