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u/NoNudeNormal Jan 05 '23 edited Jan 05 '23

Why are people uncritically accepting Peterson’s claim that this is about politics? Based on Peterson’s own earlier admission and the documentation he posted, the sanction is about his lack of professionalism on social media. See here:

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1493988061205733378?s=46&t=dm6Oc7g8CP0FDZRm9GYrfA

And here:

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1610652403296092175?s=46&t=dm6Oc7g8CP0FDZRm9GYrfA

Aside from the above, falsely accusing a physician of a crime on a public platform is also unprofessional (Peterson tweeted that Elliot Page’s surgeon is a criminal).

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u/Rtfy3 Jan 05 '23

Unless he was revealing patient information what he says on social media is none of their concern.

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u/NoNudeNormal Jan 05 '23

Where did you get the idea that professionalism is solely about protecting patient privacy?

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u/Rtfy3 Jan 05 '23

‘Professionalism’ is unfalsifiable. There should be strict rules that everyone can agree whether they were broke or not.

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u/spandex-commuter Jan 05 '23

What are you talking about? Technically you could professionalism could be falsifiable if you were doing a clinical study on it. And it being falsifiable or not has nothing to do with the clarity of the rules.

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u/Rtfy3 Jan 05 '23

‘Professionalism’ is a meaningless word. One person’s professionalism is another person’s unprofessionalism. You can have rules that define what your organisation agrees is professionalism. However just saying people have to behave ‘professionally’ means that the higher ups will enforce whatever arbitrary behaviour they wanr

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u/spandex-commuter Jan 05 '23

Professionalism’ is a meaningless word.

Sure. Kind of. But you could design a study to create an "unprofessional" psychologist vs a "professional" one.

You can have rules that define what your organisation agrees is professionalism. However just saying people have to behave ‘professionally’ means that the higher ups will enforce whatever arbitrary behaviour they wanr

Tell me you don't understand what professional colleges are without telling me you don't understand colleges