IF YOU STRIKE ME DOWN, I SHALL ONLY BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE: Controversial Professor’s Crowdfunding Success.

Jordan Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and an outspoken critic of what he calls “compelled speech,” is making nearly $39,000 U.S. per month through crowdfunding, the Toronto Star reported. Donors support the professor’s opposition to politically correct speech, such as the mandatory use of the gender-neutral pronoun “they.”

Peterson has been using the fund-raising platform Patreon since last year to subsidize the costs associated with making his YouTube lectures on such subjects, according to the Star, but donations have surged as he’s faced public criticism for his views — including being shouted down during a talk at McMaster University in March. He now plans to offer an online university degree in the humanities that is free, except for exam fees.

As we saw first (I think) with the Memories Pizza case, crowdfunding support is an excellent way to neutralize the Alinskyite freeze-and-personalize tactic.