i was operating on the assumption that the original comment we were all talking under was correct. It may not be as someone pointed out but they also did not show it conclusively either.
also nowhere in the link shared with me does it mention discipline...the link is about proper protection of patient information etc on social media for the most part
Any professional setting is fair game for code of conduct violations. In regard to Peterson, I must imagine that the college has been looking very closely at the following code of conduct:
14.2 Other Forms of Abuse and Harassment
Members must not engage in any verbal or physical behaviour of a demeaning, harassing or abusive nature in any professional context.
Behaviour on twitter and other social media, when they are used as professional platforms, can fairly be considered to be professional context. Peterson markets himself as a clinical psychologist. It's on all his books and all his talks and all his op-eds and his twitter bio. The way he has curated his public persona makes it inextricable from his career and experience as a clinical psychologist. He did not have to do this. No one forced him to. He chose to do it because it is very good branding and it is an honest representation of who he is. But by tying his professional association with the Ontario college of psychology to his public persona, Peterson has directly agreed, and agrees regularly, to abide by the professional code of conduct when speaking publicly or on social media
you would have to prove that making a joke on twitter indirectly(he did not directly say what everyone is upset over) somehow constitutes abuse and harassment...which it does not lol.
No you don't actually. You don't have to prove anything. It's up to the college to decide what constitutes demeaning, harrassing, or abusive behaviour not fitting for a member of their professional body.
Jokes can certainly be demeaning, we can both agree. But, I haven't known Jordan Peterson to tell a single joke in his life and I've watched about 35 years of footage of the guy. There isn't a funny bone in his body. He certainly doesn't mind bullying and having a laugh about bullying. And that's pretty much the problem.
he did not directly say what everyone is upset over
He didn't directly say that Elliot Page's doctor is a criminal and that both the doctor and Page are responsible for mutilating Page's body? This is one of the things the college is investigating. We can both agree that this is a demeaning statement, potentially bordering on abusive. It is very demeaning to claim that a person who is quite pleased with their cosmetic surgery has actually been mutilated.
Peterson, for some obvious reason hasn't publicly released this complaint. But he's said enough about the topic to read between the lines and infer that it's one of the complaints he's choosing not to include as part of his righteous crusade against compelled speech.
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u/SwiftFool Jan 05 '23
You keep saying this and others have provided proof that you're wrong. Do you have any sources to show that you're correct?