Staff at Jordan Peterson’s publisher protest new book …

The announcement of a new book from Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, the self-styled professor against political correctness, has prompted dozens of complaints from staff at his publisher in Canada, according to a report.

Vices story on Tuesday said that the announcement of Petersons forthcoming Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, a follow-up to his global bestseller 12 Rules for Life, prompted several staff at Penguin Random House Canada (PRH Canada) to confront management. Petersons views on subjects including transgender rights, gender and race have been controversial. Last year, Cambridge University rescinded its offer of a visiting fellowship to Peterson following criticism from faculty and students. Also in 2019, 12 Rules for Life was temporarily pulled from sale in a New Zealand book chain after the terrorist attack on a Christchurch mosque, over perceived links between Petersons fanbase and Islamophobia.

At a PRH Canada town hall meeting on Monday, one employee told Vice, people were crying about how Jordan Peterson has affected their lives. PRH Canadas diversity and inclusion committee reportedly received at least 70 anonymous messages about Petersons book from staff, with only a couple in favour of the decision to publish.

In response, PRH Canada told Vice that it immediately held the forum after announcing its plans to publish Beyond Order and provided a space for our employees to express their views and offer feedback.

The publishers statement said: Our employees have started an anonymous feedback channel, which we fully support. We are open to hearing our employees feedback and answering all of their questions. We remain committed to publishing a range of voices and viewpoints.

Petersons daughter Mikhaila tweeted a link to the Vice article. How to improve business in 2 steps: Step 1: identify crying adults. Step 2: fire, she wrote. If you dont think adults willing to cry to get their way in a workplace is a problem youre clearly not in charge of many people.

Petersons Beyond Order, which is due out in March, promises to deliver 12 more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes.

In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life from our social structures to our emotional states Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous, says the publisher. Whats more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even and especially when we find ourselves powerless.

The Guardian understands that no staff at PRH in the UK have complained about the decision to publish Peterson again.

The protests in Canada over Petersons book follow Hachettes decision to drop Woody Allens memoir after a staff walkout, and reports that staff at JK Rowlings publisher in the UK were told they could not refuse to work on her new childrens book The Ickabog because they disagreed with her views on transgender rights.

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