Controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson has defended his recent tweet in which he shamed a plus-size Sports Illustrated model — even after facing serious backlash for the remarks.
Canadian doctor turned YouTuber He tweeted a quote from The Post’s story About the debut of Sports Illustrated cover model Yumi Nu on May 16, “Sorry. it’s not nice. No amount of authoritarian tolerance will change that.”
Hours later, he announced that he was leaving the popular social media app amid criticism.
Peterson, in a letter Thursday Telegraphstood by his statement, insisting that his tweet “wasn’t wrong and didn’t cause me to leave Twitter.”
“The use of a non-athletic (remember: SPORTS Illustrated) model was economic and manipulative of the model herself (although she was complicit in her exploitation),” he said.
“Beauty is ideal. Almost all of us fall short of an ideal. I am not ready to sacrifice any ideal to false compassion. period And certainly not the ideal of athletic beauty.
Although her account is active, the 60-year-old has told staff to keep her off social media.
“I told my staff to change my password, not to tempt me, and I’m leaving again,” he added in an interview with the publication. “If I have something to say, I will write an article or make a video. “If the matter is not important enough to justify it, perhaps it would be better to leave it.”
But the break was short-lived.
Peterson, Kim signed a podcast deal conservative news outlet The Daily Wire reported Thursday that Twitter was suspended after this week attacks a transgender actor Eliot Page for his “sin”.
screenshots posted online Cue the tweet in question from a former University of Toronto professor: “Remember pride is a sin? And the forensic doctor had Ellen Page’s chest removed.”
Twitter claims that Peterson violated the Twitter platform’s rules “against hateful conduct.”
In an interview with The Telegraph, Peterson says that even if people accept their characteristics in the opposite sex, it does not mean that they are in the “wrong body”.
“So the idea that fluidity and gender identity overlap is true,” she said. “What’s not true is that it suggests you’re in the wrong body, and that’s not true at all.”
