These days, speaking one’s thoughts can be treacherous — especially on social media.
Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist and best-selling author, was suspended after he made comments about Elliot Page, transgender actor.
As posted to Twitter by Jordan’s daughter, Mikhaila, on June 22nd, the Canadian intellectual tweeted the following remark about former Ellen now-Elliot:
“Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.”
A screenshot provided by Mikhaila indicates Jordan violated the Bluebird’s rules against “hateful conduct”:
Violent acts of violence must not be used against or threatened with other persons on the grounds of race, color, nationality, gender identity or sexual orientation.
“We have determined that this account violated the Twitter Rules,” the explanation reads.
As a result, we’ve temporarily limited some of your account features. While in this state…you’re limited to only sending Direct Messages… Your account will be restored to full functionality in: 12 hours and 0 minutes.
After you have deleted any content violating our guidelines, your countdown can be started and continued to Twitter.
Wow. @jordanbpetersonTwitter strike. He deleted the tweet and no more Twitter. This is definitely not an open-source platform for free speech at the moment @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/YuBTwnjz5W
— Mikhaila Peterson (@MikhailaFuller) June 29, 2022
There’s a reason they call it the “thought police.” Such a characterization was once ubiquitously used as a figure of speech. But these days, we’re boldly regulated regarding the notions we express.
And amid our modern monitoring, words such as “hate” have been wholly redefined. What is supposed to indicate an extreme emotion now means the side of an issue opposed by a regulating body’s singular intolerant point of view.
Somehow, we’ve taken a space larger than we once could have imagined — the worldwide web — and turned it into a space smaller than existed before we ever went online. Throughout America’s history, people sat in rooms and disagreed. Today, we are able to stare at a computer screen without having to have personal conversations and can be banned from dissension.
Our idea of what’s allowable has so transformed that when Elon Musk proposed buying Twitter, TV’s talking heads decried a “Wild West” — where the chaos of free expression might nightmarishly reign:
Jen Psaki Decries the ‘Harm’ and ‘Misinformation’ of Free Twitter
MSNBC Warns That Free Speech On Twitter Would Be a ‘Danger’ to Free Speech — and It Perfectly Captures Where We Are
Former Clinton Official Calls Elon’s Free-Speech Vision the ‘Dream of Every Dictator’
Of course, it isn’t just happening online or on television:
Academics Fear the ‘Hate’ of Free Speech as a Liberated Twitter Looms
Host of School’s Free Speech Event Issues Language Guide Prohibiting ‘Man,’ ‘Woman,’ and ‘Mother’
Once Elon has taken Twitter’s reigns, will a comment such as Jordan’s be permitted?
Mikhaila posited to the billionaire, “Definitely not a free speech platform at the moment.”
Jordan’s managed multiple social media controversies as of late. In May, he asserted that plus-size Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Yumi Nu was “not beautiful”:
Sorry. It’s not beautiful. This is despite all the authoritarian tolerance. https://t.co/rOASeeQvee
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) May 16, 2022
Earlier this month, he offered something similar about the NFL’s first transgender cheerleader:
Not beautiful either. You are now happy, Twitter trolls
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) June 6, 2022
Beauty is the subject of this professor Did give a potential “thumbs up” to Instagram model Paige Spiranac.
Ok. She might be beautiful 🙂 https://t.co/bz84d0uNti
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) June 16, 2022
RedState Deputy Editor Brandon Morse has thoughts
Jordan Peterson can’t release a tweet without causing the left to fly into some sort of rage, but that’s what happens when you don’t toe the politically correct line set by the outrage mob. Peterson looks like he is having fun doing and saying the things that anger the left. However, when the hatred comes at you, it might be worth trying to make it enjoyable.
“Spiranac is beautiful and thousands of years of this being confirmed by our race isn’t going to suddenly stop because the leftist mob said it should,” Brandon wrote.
Is it possible to stop thousands of years worth of suppression of speech? Or a hundred? Oder twenty-five years? We’re quickly on our way to finding out.
-ALEX
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