Juno News - January 10, 2019


Leftist Laurier professors are still targeting Lindsay Shepherd


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Laurier University professors Herbert Pimlott and Nathan Rambicana have been accused of defamation by former student Lindsay Shepard for recording a public access television clip of Jordan Peterson debating gender pronouns. Now, they are suing her for defamation.

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00:00:00.160 You know, I don't expect a lot of intelligence from radical Marxist professors, but you'd think at least a bit of self-awareness would come from a situation that, frankly, they should have learned their lesson from by now.
00:00:13.060 I'm talking, of course, about Laurier University professors Herbert Pimlott and Nathan Rambicana, the two professors who were in the meeting, the infamous meeting, in November of 2017 with former Laurier grad student and teaching assistant Lindsay Shepard.
00:00:27.560 You've heard the audio from the meeting now, which Lindsay Shepard had the foresight to record and then leaked to media outlets.
00:00:34.540 In the audio, the professors reprimand her for daring to show a public access television clip of Jordan Peterson debating gender pronouns.
00:00:43.240 The clip from TVO, the Ontario equivalent of CBC, was not too offensive for the public broadcaster, but for a Laurier University classroom was just too dangerous for students.
00:00:55.200 The professor said it contributed to a toxicity in the classroom.
00:01:00.020 They said that it was offensive to show Jordan Peterson without criticizing him in the same way that it would be to show a clip of, you guessed it, Adolf Hitler.
00:01:11.360 Well, in the little over a year since that story became international news, it's been a spectacularly eye-opening experience for many people about the state of free speech or lack thereof on college campuses.
00:01:23.560 Laurier University was forced to apologize to Lindsay Shepard.
00:01:28.180 Nathan Rambucana not only apologized to Lindsay Shepard for the meeting and also apologized to Jordan Peterson because he said that it was wrong and untrue and should not have happened for Peterson to have been described that way.
00:01:42.000 So after these very public apologies and international embarrassment for Laurier University, what are the professors doing?
00:01:49.620 Well, according to a Canadian press report, they are suing Lindsay Shepard, filing a third-party claim against her, saying that she's responsible for any defamation of Jordan Peterson.
00:02:00.740 Now, they filed this to defend themselves against a lawsuit that Jordan Peterson is filing against them.
00:02:07.920 But here's where things don't make sense.
00:02:10.020 The professors say that they didn't defame Jordan Peterson, that he wasn't defamed, that he didn't suffer any damages.
00:02:16.080 But this latest third-party filing against Lindsay Shepard changes that a bit.
00:02:20.860 They're saying, okay, well, maybe he was, but if he was, it's not our fault, it's Lindsay Shepard's fault, because she was the one that shared the audio.
00:02:29.320 She was the one that published the words that, well, we said.
00:02:33.700 Yeah, it doesn't really make much sense, does it?
00:02:35.720 They're saying that this thing didn't happen, but if it did, it was Lindsay Shepard's fault, even though, in the case of Nathan Rambucana, he already apologized because of an admission that what he did was wrong.
00:02:47.040 So, they seem to have forgotten the apology for the thing that they now say didn't happen.
00:02:52.780 Yeah, this is pretty much, as I said earlier, not expecting much intelligence from neo-Marxist professors.
00:02:59.040 We now have a professor suing his former student, someone that he said in a very open and candid letter he wishes he had nurtured more and mentored more.
00:03:09.500 And now he's going to be putting her in a seat where she has to defend herself.
00:03:13.840 This is a recent graduate, someone who has, by a lawsuit she's filed against the school and the professors, been left unemployable in her chosen field because of what this ordeal did to her.
00:03:25.700 And this sends a chill across campuses, not just in Canada, but in the United States as well, that not only will you be subjected to these closed-door witch trials if you say the wrong thing based on what a left-wing professor thinks,
00:03:39.220 but further to that, when you try to stand your ground, you could find yourself facing a lawsuit from these people.
00:03:45.900 They just can't get enough of trying to drag Lindsay Shepard through the ringer. 1.00
00:03:49.960 And remember, Lindsay Shepard is only a household name because she had the foresight to record this.
00:03:55.540 Without that audio, we would never know the scope of what happened at Laurier and what we know is happening at campuses across North America.
00:04:03.360 This is why it's never been more important to stand up and stand firm and say, yes, we must preserve and protect free speech on campuses.
00:04:11.100 We must expose the professors who are not supporting free thought, the professors who are punishing people for daring to have a controversial opinion
00:04:19.360 or daring to show a video clip of someone else with a controversial opinion.
00:04:24.280 We don't know what's going to happen in court yet.
00:04:26.140 The judge could throw this whole thing out.
00:04:27.940 Remember, this is only going to proceed if the judge agrees that Jordan Peterson has been defamed
00:04:34.000 and then agrees that Lindsay Shepard bears responsibility for it.
00:04:38.320 But again, it's another twist in a saga that shouldn't exist in the first place
00:04:42.760 and further prove that the left just doesn't get it.
00:04:46.480 They don't get that they're the ones in the wrong here, not Lindsay Shepard.
00:04:50.120 For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lawton.