{"id":5016,"date":"2020-11-30T12:32:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T17:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2020-11-30T12:32:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T17:32:54","slug":"rex-murphy-blasts-snowflake-employees-of-random-house-who-wept-protested-publishing-jordan-petersons-new-book-sadly-some-people-in-publishing-just-dont-get-the-notion-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5016","title":{"rendered":"Rex Murphy Blasts Snowflake Employees of Random House Who Wept &#038; Protested Publishing Jordan Peterson&#8217;s New Book &#8212; Sadly Some People in Publishing Just Don&#8217;t Get the Notion of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Should Penguin Random House give so much as an inch on the cardinal idea of free expression, let it get out of the book tradeRex MurphyPublishing date:Nov 25, 2020 \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Last Updated 4 days ago \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 4 minute read<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Jordan_Peterson.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Employees\n at Jordan Peterson&#8217;s publisher, Penguin Random House Canada, have \nobjected to the publication of his new book, a followup to his \nbest-selling 12 Rules for Life. Photo by Hollie Adams\/Newspix\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Axiom\n 1. The purpose of an enterprise is not to assuage or submit to the \nimmature predispositions of its most self-centred and querulous \nemployees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rule 1. Any employees at a publishing house who break \ndown in tears when they hear a certain book is to be published should be\n kept far, far away from the author\u2019s promotional tour. [Penguin Random \nHouse \u2013 take note.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>OK. Enough is enough. Who let the toddlers run the day care?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the unlikely event you haven\u2019t heard, there has been a woke-monsoon at <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/jordan-petersons-12-rules-sequel-sees-staff-complain-to-publisher-penguin-random-house\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penguin Random House Canada<\/a>. Tears were shed. People wept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who let the toddlers run the day care?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details I\u2019ll come to, but first some general principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n inanity, silliness, indulgence, narcissism and anti-rationality of the \nwoke mobs have been tolerated and coddled far too long. They should not \nbe listened to. They should be laughed at. And they should never be \ngiven the slightest influence or leverage in the major decisions of the \ncompany that pays their salaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advertisement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Story continues below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article content continued<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n woke mindset brings nothing to the table. Its principal identifiers are\n but two: weeping and whining. Both infallibly accompanied by \u201cdemands\u201d \nfor the weird thing they call a \u201csafe space,\u201d which may most easily be \ndefined as anywhere they can break out their toys and stage their \nincessant tantrums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is degrading to adult dignity and \nintellectual integrity to allow a woke mob sway or say over anything. \nAnd most emphatically over what may or should be written or said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woke mindset brings nothing to the table<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n most prominent Canadian intellectual of our day, Jordan Peterson, has a\n followup book to his incredibly successful, international best-seller, \n12 Rules for Life. It sold millions. 12 Rules had an impact that no \nother book of its kind can pretend to. It rocket-shot Dr. Peterson into \nworld prominence and influence, and was a King Solomon\u2019s mine for its \npublishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now (this makes the teeth to grind) we hear that \nPenguin Random House (PRH) has endured one of those Mao-like \n\u201cthought-sessions\u201d that wokesters put on whenever they sense a wisp of a\n thought, or a fragment of opinion that injures their eggshell \nsensibilities, or threatens a dent to their highly-inflated and \nunendurably fragile self-esteem. The princess and the \npea-under-the-mattress is the woke template.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/jordan-petersons-12-rules-sequel-sees-staff-complain-to-publisher-penguin-random-house\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">staff at PRH held a meeting<\/a>\n at which \u2014 and this from international headlines the day after \u2014 \n\u201cstaffers broke down in tears over release of (a new) Jordan Peterson \nbook.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advertisement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Story continues belowThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article content continued<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What it is, really, is just vanity holding hands with folly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n staff meeting at PRH was described \u2014 it is disgraceful to learn this \u2014 \nas a \u201ctearful town hall.\u201d There was an \u201cemotional outcry\u201d from staff and\n \u201can effort by employees to pressure the company into cancelling\u201d the \nrelease of Dr. Peterson\u2019s new book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah yes, this makes sense; \nemployees at a book company clamouring for a censorship veto over \nforthcoming books. A little like bread-makers protesting dough. Or \ndogwalkers allergic to barking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emotional outcry? Tearful? People \nwere weeping. Did somebody die? Was a favourite pet run over? This \nprecious bunch whined they \u201cwere ambushed\u201d by the news. Ambushed mind \nyou \u2014 a very animated verb in this context. Were they lured into the \nCanyon of Dangerous Books and bombarded from above with blurb-heavy dust\n jackets? Perilous business this, working at a publisher\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What \nit is, really, is just vanity holding hands with folly. If there are \npeople in full employment at a respected publishing house crying over a \nbook yet to be published, and if there are actual tears rolling down \nsocial justice cheeks, because the company they work for has the gift of\n Jordan Peterson as one of its authors, it is probably too late: but \nsend in the therapists. By the bus load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are the \naccomplishments of the would-be censors compared with Dr. Peterson\u2019s? \nWhat are their intellectual attainments compared with his? What have \nthey written, what audiences have they attracted? How many books have \nthey sold?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advertisement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Story continues below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/d0bad70af8440c2a41f4504793da18e7.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-37\/html\/container.html\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article content continued<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Biggest question of all: Who do they think they are that they should judge him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By what standards, intellectual or moral, do those who do not like what Dr. Peterson writes claim the right to shut him down?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who do they think they are that they should judge him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a few more questions I\u2019ll guarantee didn\u2019t come up at the \u201ctown hall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do\n they know more? Have they read more deeply, more widely? Are they as \neducated as he is? Have they produced work of equal range and force? Do \nthey over-match his intellect?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just what, besides adolescent \ncowardice and bluster in the face of notions different from their own \nshielded and limited half-thoughts, do they have to offer the world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\n is time to be direct about these adolescent displays. The lachrymose \nventing at Penguin Random House was a pathetic and embarrassing display \nof over-indulged \u201cactivists\u201d and cause-addicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should Penguin \nRandom House give so much as an inch on the cardinal idea of free \nexpression, or bend a knee, so much a single centimetre, to still the \nclamours of the jejune Pharisees whose salaries it pays, then let it get\n out of the book trade and go into something honourable like \nrefurbishing used tires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should Penguin Random House give so much as an inch on the cardinal idea of free expression, let it get out of the book tradeRex MurphyPublishing date:Nov 25, 2020 \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Last Updated 4 days ago \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 4 minute read Axiom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5016\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5017,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions\/5017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}