Jordan Peterson has never met a straw man he couldn’t defeat

There’s one subject Jordan Peterson likes to talk about more than Disney movies and Jungian archetypes and that’s the supposed assault on Western civilization being waged by “postmodern neo-Marxists” in academia.

In a PragerU video titled “Dangerous people are teaching your kids,” he warns parents that they are funding their children’s indoctrination at the hands of radical professors intent on destroying the intellectual foundations of Western civilization.

Instead of pointing to any particular professors or institutions, Peterson directs his critique at a faceless “gang of nihilists” made up of villains like the “language police,” henchmen to the nefarious “Dean of Diversity.”

Peterson claims “it’s now possible to complete an English degree and never encounter Shakespeare, one of those dead white males whose works underly our society of oppression.”

The factual basis of this is relatively easy to challenge. One need look no further than the English curriculum of UC Berkeley, a college often cited as a prime example of the kind of political correctness run amok that Peterson is always tilting…