College Profs Mad that YouTubers Teach Kids to Think for Themselves
By Alexander Hall | August 28, 2019 12:35 PM EDT
Forget education. Now academics are mad that free speech YouTubers are turning students against liberal brainwashing.
The Verge wrote on August 21, “As misinformation and hate continues to radicalize young people online, teachers are also grappling with helping their students unlearn incorrect, dangerous information.†The professors and The Verge blamed YouTubers like Canadian Academic Jordan B. Peterson and The Post Millennial columnist Lindsay Shepherd for teaching the youth to think critically.
Emma Vossen, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at York University, commented that “Suddenly everyone who watches Jordan Peterson videos thinks they know what postmodernism is.†“Postmodernism†being the catch-all phrase that Peterson uses to describe the relativistic dogma that dominates liberal academia.
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