Enough is Enough: Merrifield needs to Go!

[Catsumi]

Rex mops up the floor again, this time with the Ontario College of Psychologists

Since Jordan Peterson rose to fame, the Ontario College of Psychologists has received a number of complaints about his conduct…..

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Which brings me to the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO) and their jihad — pardon, that is politically incorrect — their crusade — pardon again, that might be politically incorrect as well — their whatever-it-is campaign against Dr. Jordan Peterson. You may have heard of him. He’s CPO’s highest profile member. Likely the sole Ontario clinical psychologist known in most parts of the province and beyond.

It is a lurid moment when the inexplicable beds down with the ludicrous. What a Bethlehem birth of folly awaits such a congress.

The CPO has provided such a moment. And, as when rare comets or terrifying supernova ornament the firmament with their tails and brilliance, all eyes burn with fascination at the extraordinary phenomenon.

What dread dragon, slayer of innocent woke poseurs and pronoun fetishists are they donning their finest-forged, woke-steel armour against? Jordan Peterson of course. Anti-wokeist sublime.

It is an inconvenient truth that the scaly-backed Peterson, incinerator of BBC interviewers, Lord of YouTube, Harvard/Toronto professor, 20-year clinical practitioner, sublimely high-ranker in cited professional publications, exegete of renown on Biblical texts, was uncomplained-of for almost his entire tenure as a professor and a practitioner.

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A model professor, prized lecturer and accomplished clinician.
It wasn’t until six years ago, when he had a disagreement over grammar (the trans pronoun business) and his own University of Toronto issued menacing letters to him, that — suddenly — his professional qualifications, his very presence on the U of T campus, all came into question and were put in jeopardy.

Who knew that she and he, zhe and zher could raise such a storm?

It is noticeable that during that attack on Dr. Peterson — this was one of their own — the warriors at the CPO were silent. As was the near-whole body of tenured professors at U of T, tenure once being understood as a shield for academic independence, now more understood as a signal of going along with the crowd.

Peterson was left alone in the storm.

And yet to the grief, nay to the dismay and fury of the woke mob, and their howling and rude efforts to silence him, they made him a name. He flourished.

Let it ever be known that the soil in which he blossomed, and the incredible fame he has achieved, owes all its fertility to the basket of “cancellers” who tried to shut him down.

In a classic example of The General George A. Custer Syndrome, U of T wokeists performed their own version of the Little Bighorn.

From that shameless campus assault on thought and debate, Peterson rocketed to world status. It provided the explosive.

This near solitary professor, wandering unknown the green swards of the U of T lawns, grew into the most celebrated champion of all of that used to be seen as the sacred concepts of western democracy and genuine liberal philosophy: Free speech. Free thought. Open debate. Defence of the humanities. Calling on universities to untangle themselves from fashionable ideological imperatives. Academic independence.


Like him or not, he has been the catalyst, the prime mover in what is the highest stakes debate of our day.

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It is, by choice, ignorant of the consideration that he is the foremost, most celebrated, member of the guild it presumes to rule. It also ignores the thousands of testimonies of the good he has done, and the immense positive response to the messages he has offered. Instead it has given favour to a dozen choice objections to his, extra-clinical, perspectives.

It has treated, as mothers treat babies in swaddling clothes, these political complaints. He criticized the prime minister for example, and (horror) he retweeted Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, a vileness not to be tolerated!

Dropping all irony, what does the CPO council think they are at? What are their qualifications, their motivations, for blistering or attempting to blister the reputation and standing of the only member of their association the world even knows? Who gathers crowds in their thousands to listen to a “clinical psychologist,” and draws millions to his internet lectures? And who are they to insist on social media training for the greatest media personality their profession has even seen?

CPO, look at yourselves. Or in more formal language, psychologists scrutinize thyselves.

[BC Landlord]

Rex mops up the floor again, this time with the Ontario College of Psychologists

Good old Rex Murphy. The mob tried to cancel him as well. They failed. The reason, .. he didn't cave in, and the NP backed him.

Never, never try to appease the mob. You would be playing into their game.

[Boarder4]

Love Jordan Peterson! Tells it like it really is. I’m definitely not for Transgender ideals either, but I’m sure in favour of free speech!

[lesliepaul]

And fake or forced apologies just make things worse. Was anyone fooled by the drama teacher Trudeau's crocodile tears when he made his apologies? If they were, they are dumber than a sack of hammers.

Indeed! Caving in to the mob's demands only makes them hungrier for more. Most of these mobsters are people who have never done anything productive in their sorry lives. Mobbing just makes them feel "useful", all in the name of some "greater good" which they have been indoctrinated with.

And once they realize that for the most of them, there is not really any money for them in that, they get even angrier toward those who took a different, realistic career path.

BINGO.....................we have a winner!

[YzzzR1]

Oh you poor dear.

You don't care.

You dont care if I respect people but you will put me in jail unless I utter the words. It's all an act and seemingly you enjoy/feel pleasure in literally forcing people to utter words. Respect is out the window. Regardless if there is respect or not you feel it is a win if someone is :forced": to speak a certain way.

Kind of like a God or Jesus or a King. "You WILL address me as _____"

You are forcing people to cosplay, not respect people.

"Oh you poor dear" - not everyone in the world has to respect you and your cult.

What's next - "tone policing"?

Jordan Peterson used my pronouns but he rolled his eyes and his tone of voice was offsetting when he said them!!!

In my world, everyone gets a certain amount of initial respect. Where it goes from there is totally up to the the words and actions presented by them. Any attempt at forcing me (or anyone) to conform to their ideologies is a sure fire way to lose any of the prerequisite respect.

[69cutlass]

You don't care.

You dont care if I respect people but you will put me in jail unless I utter the words. It's all an act and seemingly you enjoy/feel pleasure in literally forcing people to utter words. Respect is out the window. Regardless if there is respect or not you feel it is a win if someone is :forced": to speak a certain way.

Kind of like a God or Jesus or a King. "You WILL address me as _____"

You are forcing people to cosplay, not respect people.

"Oh you poor dear" - not everyone in the world has to respect you and your cult.

What's next - "tone policing"?

Jordan Peterson used my pronouns but he rolled his eyes and his tone of voice was offsetting when he said them!!!

In my world, everyone gets a certain amount of initial respect. Where it goes from there is totally up to the the words and actions presented by them. Any attempt at forcing me (or anyone) to conform to their ideologies is a sure fire way to lose any of the prerequisite respect.

100% agree.

[normaM]

we could just go back to using thy, thou, thee and ye.

[fluffy]

Love Jordan Peterson! Tells it like it really is.

There is a distinction to be made between Jordan Peterson “Telling it like it really is”, and Jordan Peterson “Telling it the way he sees it”. You can agree with him or not, but the controversial nature of his views is what keeps him at the centre of a media poop storm, and not to mention what makes him money.

[MAPearce]

the controversial nature of his views is what keeps him at the centre of a media poop storm, and not to mention what makes him money.

What makes the left money is making sure they find controversy in HIS views ... '

Sorry you don't like them .. NOT

[fluffy]

What makes the left money is making sure they find controversy in HIS views ... '

Sorry you don't like them .. NOT

I don’t know enough about his views to like or not like them at this point, I have one of his books in my reading stack but haven’t got there yet. That being said, I’m not so naive to not consider that there is money to be made in the arena of public opinion.

I have to wonder how deeply you have looked into the man’s personal philosophy ?

[MAPearce]

What makes the left money is making sure they find controversy in HIS views ... '

Sorry you don't like them .. NOT

I don’t know enough about his views to like or not like them at this point, I have one of his books in my reading stack but haven’t got there yet. That being said, I’m not so naive to not consider that there is money to be made in the arena of public opinion.

I have to wonder how deeply you have looked into the man’s personal philosophy ?

Look up the Daily Wire .. Ben Shapiro is also a good one for his "philosophy" ..

But you have to have an open and objective mind .

[Patron]

What makes the left money is making sure they find controversy in HIS views ... '

Sorry you don't like them .. NOT

I don’t know enough about his views to like or not like them at this point, I have one of his books in my reading stack but haven’t got there yet. That being said, I’m not so naive to not consider that there is money to be made in the arena of public opinion.

I have to wonder how deeply you have looked into the man’s personal philosophy ?

it's always about the $$ and what's trendy these days, the Internet is biggest employer in the world

[JLives]

*removed*

[JLives]

What makes the left money is making sure they find controversy in HIS views ... '

Sorry you don't like them .. NOT

I don’t know enough about his views to like or not like them at this point, I have one of his books in my reading stack but haven’t got there yet. That being said, I’m not so naive to not consider that there is money to be made in the arena of public opinion.

I have to wonder how deeply you have looked into the man’s personal philosophy ?

I never hear "the left" complaining about things Peterson has said. I only hear about "the right" complaining he's being persecuted. I think it's just an echo chamber issue and not an actual issue. The algorithm is giving these people what they want to hear.

[fluffy]

I never hear "the left" complaining about things Peterson has said. I only hear about "the right" complaining he's being persecuted. I think it's just an echo chamber issue and not an actual issue. The algorithm is giving these people what they want to hear.

I just can’t shake the feeling that the decision on where to offer or withhold their support/agreement/whatever the only governing factor for many is much more basic. The second they see something they can categorize as “left” or “not left”, they stop looking and head for social media.