Originally Posted by
The Dunster
You don't know anything about Cambridge member. Firstly, it consists of many different colleges - it's not a single campus as you seem to think.
Peterson requested a visiting Fellowship - it was never offered to him prior to his request to visit. People far more intelligent than Peterson have been refused Fellowships to Colleges of Cambridge - Augustus De Morgan, George Green... these blokes dropped turds with higher IQ's than Peterson.
It's only been in recent times that married men were allowed to accept fellowships from the majority of colleges at Cambridge - which you don't seem to know consists of many different colleges.
The major colleges of Cambridge such as Trinity, Gonville and Caius, Peterhouse, Kings, and so on have a long history of being religiously rigorous to say the least - and far from left wing.
In fact, the colleges of Cambridge were among the last in England to accept Dissenters - most of them instead taking up positions at University College in London.