Professor's speech praising pro-Palestinian students sparks backlash at University of Michigan

[Rob H.]

1. Peterson is right

Peterson said he stood by the comments, calling it “ridiculous” to expect that graduations be apolitical.

“Michigan is not a finishing school for polite young men and women,” he said in a statement. “They do not need sentimental, cloying nostalgia. They need encouragement to face a flawed and unjust world head on, using the tools we’ve given them: critical reasoning, careful research, sympathy for the oppressed.”