Penguin Random House Staff Confront Publisher About New Jordan Peterson Book

Read the whole thing. It's absolutely great.

Another employee said “people were crying in the meeting about how Jordan Peterson has affected their lives.” They said one co-worker discussed how Peterson had radicalized their father and another, who is talked about how publishing the book will negatively affect their non-binary friend.

These people are NUTS.

And if you believe that Random House is innocent in all of this, think again.

“The company since June has been doing all these anti-racist and allyship things and them publishing Peterson’s book completely goes against this. It just makes all of their previous efforts seem completely performative,” the employee added.

People will know what to do with the books of publishers such as this. I will buy Jordan Peterson's book, and that's it.

Jesse Singal responds:

Some of the schisms going on on the left are so fascinating. You have a (presumably) young staffer at a major publisher thinking "People started crying" will make their case more sympathetic, a sympathetic journalist clearly agreeing, and then most normal liberals' reactions.

At one point my editor asked if I wanted to consider doing a chapter on JP. I read half of 12 Rules and there was just not enough to latch onto. It is dense and overwritten but it is really just self-help. Less evidence of outright wrongness than the other ideas I critique.