Reposted from @burntoakboy I was very pleased to put my name to...
Reposted from @burntoakboy I was very pleased to put my name to this “Open Letter Against The Witch Hunt of Jordan Peterson”. Click the link in my bio to read the whole thing and to see all the signatories.
“Attention: The College of Psychologists of Ontario.
We are writing as psychologists, academics, and concerned citizens to express our grave concern with your demand that psychologist Jordan Peterson submits to a “Coaching Program” with a therapist under threat of revoking his license to practice.
The College of Psychologists of Ontario is engaging in McCarthyite tactics, demanding that Dr. Peterson sign the following statement: ‘I may have lacked professionalism in public statements and during a January 25, 2022 podcast appearance.’
The issues in question are conspicuously political and not clinical. The College alleges that some of Dr. Peterson’s comments, including those about gender ideology, climate change, overpopulation, and nuclear power, ‘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’.
To that claim, we reply, ‘No, they do not, and the allegation that they do is symptomatic of precisely the dogmatic victimhood ideology that Dr. Peterson is famous for criticising’…”
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