HAVE you heard the name Jordan Peterson? His cultural, sociological and political views are horrible, terrible and highly offensive and he should not be allowed to get away with such anti-civilisation views.

Eventually, Canada had enough of this man. Peterson is a psychologist who reminds me of cases where psychiatrists lose it and ironically become in need of psychological treatment themselves. There are some very famous movies about this irony including the mega hit, “The Silence of the Lamb.” But the one in this genre I really like is the Michael Caine character in “Dressed to Kill.”
Canadian authorities have now compelled Peterson to compulsory counselling and, if he refuses, he would lose his licence to practise psychology. At my alma mater, the University of Toronto, he was forced to retire because the university felt he was damaging its image, and believe me, the University of Toronto is one of the best universities in the world and one of the most pleasant and encouraging places to be educated at.

The move against Peterson is because his extreme political lawlessness is limitless. From women, to climate change, to ethnic communities, to democratic values, Peterson frowns on all of these things and derogates them. He is no longer teaching but it is impossible to understand how students were permitted by the University of Toronto to take this man’s classes. How can humans go to this man for counselling when he is in need of such treatment himself?
Peterson’s situation at the University of Toronto reminds me of Drs. Nigel Westmaas and David Hinds. Both teach Caribbean politics at their respective universities.

Should young minds be exposed to the false adumbrations of these two fellows? Don’t accept this column here, go to YouTube and when you listen, then you wonder if these men teach the facts of Caribbean politics or teach their students alternative facts. Two instances with Westmaas should allow one to question his eligibility.

On a programme with David Hinds and a man who calls himself a preacher and what we in Guyana would refer to as a wayside preacher, Westmaas agrees with the so-called preacher that during the five months of election rigging – March to July, 2020, it was five months of neo-colonial intervention in Guyana. Here is the danger with people like Westmaas in the classroom.

He is going to teach about the return of colonialism in the Caribbean and cite neo-colonial control of Guyana through the neo-colonial shape of the 2020 election which denied the incumbent victory and gave the government to the PPP. In other words, Westmaas teaches alternative facts and alternative facts are fiction and propaganda.

So, Westmaas’ students, when they graduate are going to spread his propaganda that Guyana has an unelected government in which the ruling party did not win the general election. The reality is the opposite to what Westmaas drove into the head of his students. The March 2020 election had five months of attempts by the incumbent to tamper with the results which went against them.

In teaching Caribbean politics, Hinds and Westmaas will conceal from their students the following facts; facts that are so large they can fill the great oceans of the world.
Every major international organisation, including the UN, OAS and Commonwealth and CARICOM, endorsed the legal results and condemned the rigging. No government in the world voiced even half a sentence against the election results. Two former Prime Ministers of the Caribbean condemned the rigging.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) threw out every writ filed by the incumbent ruling party to undermine the election results. The CCJ in every writ had a full sitting of the court and there was no dissenting decision in any of the trials. There was a recount by CARICOM and CARICOM publicly stated that the results they came up with were the legal, actual votes that determined which party won the election and their finding was that the then, opposition, PPP won the contest.

The trials and tribulations of Peterson came about as a result of numerous complaints to the Psychology Board of Canada. The universities that Hinds and Westmaas teach at should be informed that both men have substituted propaganda for scholarship in the classroom.