Podcaster, professor, and social commentator Jordan Peterson just released a whopping 58 pages of the complaints against him and they’re…about what you would expect from a group of wokies working to undermine him. In fact, if you’re normal, the complaints are pretty much just an advertisement for Peterson’s Twitter account.
I promised I would post the allegations today. These pages are screenshots of original documents, so everyone interested can decide for themselves what is going on @JustnTrudeau included (take note: @PierrePoilievre). https://t.co/7kekpXTQtt
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) January 6, 2023
Here are some of the examples of the sort of tweets that Peterson got in trouble for, both of which are incredibly reasonable and well within the political mainstream:
One complainant literally submitted the ENTIRE TRANSCRIPT of the last three hour conversation I had with @joerogan. Joe, I think this is your fault 🙂
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) January 6, 2023
One of the other tweets Peterson got in trouble for was one where the person complaining said that he was encouraging people to commit suicide on Twitter. In reality, the tweet arose as part of a thread. In that thread, Peterson said that the world will eventually peak at about 9.5 billion people yet will still be prosperous.
Responding, a scientist said “Any arguments I have heard for supporting such a large human population completely overlook the huge loss of species and ecosystems resulting from our self-absorbed attention.”
Peterson’s response is what got him in trouble. In his words, “You’re free to leave at any point.”
Another complaint regarded this tweet, which came during the Canadian trucker protest:
“children removed” how, exactly? Why, exactly? By whom, exactly? Sent to where, exactly? And for how long, exactly? Think this through, Canadians. This is a bad decision.
"children removed" how, exactly? Why, exactly? By whom, exactly? Sent to where, exactly? And for how long, exactly? Think this through, Canadians. This is a bad decision. https://t.co/y2eFWbumoM
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) February 18, 2022
Apparently, you’re not allowed to say the police shouldn’t be taking children away from their parents if the parents protest a government policy anymore. Sounds about right for Canada under Trudeau.
Perhaps the funniest complaint was over this tweet, in which Peterson said that an overweight woman isn’t beautiful:
Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that. https://t.co/rOASeeQvee
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) May 16, 2022
So what was once common sense and understood by everybody is now verboten and means you might lose your medical license…
As a reminder, Peterson announced the attack on him and his livelihood about a week ago, saying:
BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists @CPOntario has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting
@PierrePoilievre and criticizing @JustinTrudeau and his political allies.
I have been accused of harming people (although none of the complainants involved in the current action were clients of mone, past or present, or en were even acquainted with any of my clients.
I am to take a course of such training (with reports documenting my “progress” or face an in-person tribunal and suspension of my right to operate as a licensed clinical psychologist.
About a dozen people from all over the world submitted complaints about my public statements on Twitter and Rogan over a four year period (out of the 15 million who follow me on social media) claiming that I had “harmed” people (not them) with my views.
In its wisdom @CPOntario decided to pursue these complaints even though they could have dismissed them@as vexatious
I have been accused of harming people (although none of the complainants involved in the current action were clients of mine, past or present, or were even acquainted with any of my clients).
And even though many of them falsely claimed that they were or had been clients of mine and were allowed by @CPOntario to have their complaints investigated despite this falsehood
We are now in a situation in Canada under @JustinTrudeau where practicing professionals can have their livelihoods and public reputations threatened in a very serious manner for agreeing with the Official Opposition and criticizing major government figures.
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