{"id":8415,"date":"2023-01-04T05:10:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T10:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=8415"},"modified":"2023-01-04T05:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T10:10:34","slug":"jordan-peterson-threatened-over-political-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=8415","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Peterson threatened over political tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The psychologist says an Ontario regulator wants him to undergo \u201cre-education\u201d or lose his license<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jordan Peterson threatened over political tweets<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The psychologist says an Ontario regulator wants him to undergo \u201cre-education\u201d or lose his license<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2023.01\/xxs\/63b466b2203027059604b719.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Peterson threatened over political tweets\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jordan Peterson \u00a9&nbsp; Carlos Osorio \/ Toronto Star via Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson said on Tuesday that may lose his license unless he submits to mandatory <em>\u201csocial-media communication retraining\u201d<\/em> by the College of Psychologists of Ontario, his home province\u2019s licensing authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI face public disgrace, mandatory political re-education, disciplinary hearing and potential loss of my clinical licensing for agreeing with [Conservative MP] Pierre Poilievre and criticizing our standing [Prime Minister] Justin Trudeau,\u201d<\/em> Peterson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jordanbpeterson\/status\/1610314816622858241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Peterson, <em>\u201cabout a dozen people from all over the world\u201d<\/em> submitted complaints to the CPO, alleging his views and comments <em>\u201charmed people.\u201d<\/em> None of them were actual clients of his, but lied about it so their complaints would be accepted, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CPO demands that Peterson undergoes the <em>\u201cretraining\u201d<\/em> and submits <em>\u201cprogress\u201d<\/em> reports, or face an <em>\u201cin-person tribunal\u201d<\/em> and suspension of his license to operate as a clinical psychologist.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/522491-jordan-peterson-interview-going-underground\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Read more \u2018Why would everything be political?\u2019 Jordan Peterson discusses order and eternal truths with RT (FULL INTERVIEW)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIf I comply, the terms of my re-education and my punishment will be announced publicly,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cCanadians: your physicians, lawyers, psychologists and other professionals are now so intimidated by their commissar overlords that they fear to tell you the truth. This means that your care and legal counsel has been rendered dangerously unreliable,\u201d<\/em> Peterson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jordanbpeterson\/status\/1610314241491275776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peterson was reinstated on Twitter in November, after Elon Musk bought the company and reversed many prior bans that he thought unjust. He had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/558278-jordan-peterson-twitter-suspended\/\">locked out<\/a> of his account in July 2022, for refusing to use a transgender actor\u2019s new name and pronouns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 27, Peterson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jordanbpeterson\/status\/1607623697682014214\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a> that Trudeau <em>\u201cappears to me to be perpetually 14 yrs old,\u201d<\/em> referring to the concept of <em>\u201cpsychological age\u201d<\/em> in his field of expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The psychologist first gained national and international attention in 2016, when he was subjected to similar <em>\u201cre-education\u201d<\/em> pressure over his criticism of a bill that declared <em>\u201cgender identity and expression\u201d<\/em> to be protected categories. More recently, he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/540038-jordan-peterson-vaccine-mandates\/\">denounced<\/a> the <em>\u201ctotalitarian\u201d<\/em> lockdowns and vaccine mandates embraced by many countries \u2013 including Canada \u2013 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. (<strong>Russia<\/strong> Today, January 3, 2023)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The psychologist says an Ontario regulator wants him to undergo \u201cre-education\u201d or lose his license Jordan Peterson threatened over political tweets The psychologist says an Ontario regulator wants him to undergo \u201cre-education\u201d or lose his license Dr. Jordan Peterson \u00a9&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=8415\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4552,2470,2136,4139,798,560,4167,4553,406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8416,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions\/8416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}