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The Campaign to Re-Educate Jordan Peterson – WSJ

By Thomas A. Smith

You would think Canadians had learned by now not to tell Jordan Peterson what to say. The psychology professor became an internet sensation in 2016 after arguing that Canadian legislation amounted to compelled speech on gender pronouns. Now the College of Psychologists of Ontario is demanding that Mr. Peterson acknowledge he lacked professionalism in public statements and undergo a coaching program of remedial education.

Maybe the new commissars missed Mr. Peterson s videos praising Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the man who said: Live not by lies. Mr. Peterson won t comply, and he says he ll now face a disciplinary committee that could revoke his license to practice.

The College of Psychologists, the profession s governing body in Ontario, appointed an investigator in March to examine complaints about Mr. Peterson s comments on Twitter and the popular Joe Rogan podcast. On Nov. 22, the College s panel released a decision. Per images provided by Mr. Peterson, the panel ruled: The comments at issue appear to undermine the public trust in the profession as a whole, and raise questions about your ability to carry out your responsibilities as a psychologist.

What are these comments? Calling Elliot Page, the transgender actor, by his former name, Ellen, and the pronoun her, on Twitter. Calling an adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a prik. A sarcastic crack at antigrowth environmentalists for not caring that their energy policies lead to more deaths of poor Third World children.

via www.wsj.com

Canada — leading the way to nice totalitarianism.

I hope this doesn’t mean that all the rough lumberjacks and fisherpersons are now going to have to be all PC in their utterances. That would be sad. And surely depriving someone of their ability to make a living (though Dr. Peterson now surely has other sources of income, thanks to his speaking and writing) is just the top of a slippery slope. After that, there’s depriving one of access to the financial system, and then just slamming you in the hoosegow. Seems pretty unattractive.