Peterson isn't being sentenced to take media training because his personal beliefs are odious. He's being order to conduct himself in a respectable manner, or lose his
professional license to treat people with mental illnesses. Given that his behaviour is the antithesis of what a practicing licensed psychologist would ever say to a patient, he cannot say these things and keep his license.
If he were to say similar things to a patient he was treating, he would be punished for malpractice.
And like all authoritarian assholes, Peterson is deliberately provoking these hearings so he can claim victimhood, and how his free speech is being violated, when in fact, it's his hate speech that's being censored. Peterson himself admits he gave up treating patients years ago when he became famous, so what other reason does he need the license for, and why is he provoking the licensing review board in such a way?
This is little more than a fundraising grift by a right wing conman.
These are the slanders, slags, lies and insult tweets that got Peterson into trouble for promoting himself as a clinical psychologist:
- Referring to Catherine McKenney, an Ottawa city councillor, who prefers to use they/them pronouns, as an "appalling self-righteous moralizing thing."
- A tweet in which he used the dead name of actor Elliot Page, stating: "Remember when pride was a sin. And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician."
- A tweet in which he referred to Gerald Butts, the former principal secretary of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as a "prik" (sic).
- His tweet in response to a Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover of a plus-sized model, in which he said: "Sorry. Not Beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that."