VIDEO: Dr Jordan Peterson faces Oppenheimer-style persecution

Earlier this morning we posted "'OPPENHEIMER', a cautionary tale", a review of the movie which revealed the travesty of justice which was the 1954 hearing of the US Atomic Energy Commission, which revoked the security clearance of Dr J. Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atomic bomb", because (the AEC found) he was, if not a Communist, then at least a fellow-traveller and comsymp.

After watching the movie, Mrs Walt likened the persecution of Dr Oppenheimer to the poresent-day string of indictments and politically motivated prosecutions launched against President Donald Trump, for the purpose of keeping him off the ballot in the 2024 presidential election. Canadians may smugly say that kind of thing could only happen in the Paranoid States of America. They would be wrong. The same thing is happening today, in the Great No-longer-white North, to Dr Jordan Peterson. 

Last wednesday, Ontario's Divisional Court upheld a ruling ordering the eminent but controversial psychologist to undergo "social media training" or risk losing his licence, following complaints about his controversial online posts and statements.

The court said it was undeterred by Dr Peterson's claims that his public statements were "off-the-clock" activities -- not part of his practice as a psychologist. Even if that were so, they declared, Dr. Peterson is a psychologist, and his activities were therefore "harmful to the public and damaging to the profession of psychology" and his statements "threatened to erode public trust."

The court dismissed Peterson's appeal against the College of Psychologists' order,  and directed him to pay C$25,000 (over $18,000 in real money), noting that the training "is not disciplinary and does not prevent Dr. Peterson from expressing himself on controversial topics." 

In the video below, Dr Peterson says that's ridiculous! If he hadn't expressed himeself in the so-called social media, why would he have been hailed before the College and the courts? He became famous in 2016 after criticizing Bill C-16, claiming that the bill would enforce speech codes and harm free speech. This earned him a reputation for being "transphobic"/

He came under court scrutiny again last year as a result of complaints filed against him for his online commentary on issues like climate change, gender transitioning, and Covid policy, and against key members of the Canadian government like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who he called the worst prime minister Canada ever had. [Just stating the obvious. Walt]

It was statements like that, made and reposted on multiple Twitter accounts, that were submitted to the College and later the court, not by any of his patients, but by "progressive" wokesters who felt and said that saying (or even thinking!) such things is "unacceptable". What they really meant is that Dr Peterson must be silenced, cast into outer darkness. Just like President Trump.

Here, then, is Dr Peterson's analysis of and response to the court's decision. Note his promise to take the matter all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. But there's more. He promises (or threatens, the lefties would say) to make the "retraining" (if it happens!) public, so the world can see the "retraining" for the woke brainwashing that it really is. "If you think that you have a right to free speech in Canada, you're delusional. I will make every aspect of this public and we will see what happens when utter transparency is the rule. Bring it on."

 

Further viewing: "Ontario College of Psychologists Have Asked Me to Re-Educate Jordan Peterson!". Psychologist Gad Saad reviews the 16 points which Dr Peterson is supposed to embrace in order to keep his licence. I had to listen very carefully to be sure Dr Saad wasn't serious about the "re-education lobotomy". Highly recommended!