You may have forgotten, but Canadian fusspot and anti-woke warrior Jordan Peterson has a second career as a clinical psychologist. I have no idea if he’s seeing any patients, but he could soon lose the right to due to his sometimes unhinged comments on Twitter and his general obstreperousness.
Peterson announced today (in a Twitter thread, natch) that the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO) “has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining” or face a hearing that could result in the suspension of his license as a clinical psychologist. Peterson said that the demand is in response to, “among other crimes,” his criticism of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Peterson apparently wants us to believe he’s being silenced for his political criticism, but I want to hear more about these unnamed “other crimes.” Peterson, after all, tweets wildly unprofessional things all the time, once famously suggesting that a critic kill himself and, on at least one other occasion threatening an opponent with physical violence. He’s also very fond of the phrase “up yours.”
All in all, not the sorts of things that clinical psychologists should be saying in public, especially not to an audience of two million followers on Twitter.
But the particulars of his “other crimes” may not matter because Peterson says he’ll only submit to a hearing if the CPO agrees “to make absolutely every word of all this fully public so that everyone can decide for themselves what is actually happening,” something he admits won’t happen. So it sounds like he’s itching to get his license suspended, yet another reason for him to portray himself as a martyr to political correctness.
In other news, he’s got a new Twitter suit, and not in the legal sense.
Very snappy, Dr. P!
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I really doubt that a provincial association for psychologists would care about that. Threatening people with violence (which can amount to an actual crime) seems a little more relevant.
As someone who has been watching the JP controversy unfold with increasing horror and distaste, I am glad to hear that the CPO is finally taking an interest in his erratic behaviour. It’s true that professional regulatory organizations are slow to act: whoever said that upthread is absolutely correct. Also, they are fastest to act when complaints are registered. Given that JP was a university prof for years, he probably hasn’t seen any clients/patients recently, so no one who was an active or recent client of his would have been able to make complaints.
@Surplus: Crip Dyke probably never wants to be told the odds.
Fussbudget or fusspot? I’m not sure of the nuances, but since Jordy likes the long words and David uses the former, I’m going with that too.
@Crip Dyke
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