Jordan Peterson being interviewed by Cathy Newman, January, 2018.
Dr. Jordan Peterson in a January 2018 interview with Britain’s Channel Four. Cathy Newman interviews Dr. Jordan Peterson for Britain’s Channel Four in January, 2018.
LONDON, January 24, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A leading intellectual who has become a kind of poster-boy for free speech cornered a left-wing interviewer with her own logic when she castigated him for offending people who say they are transgendered.
Dr. Jordan Peterson, clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto, entranced viewers when he appeared on Britain’s Channel Four in an interview with Cathy Newman. The interview, in which Peterson’s measured, thoughtful responses make the overly combative Newman sound petty and ridiculous, has had over three million hits on Facebook.
At the climax of the debate, Newman addressed Peterson’s battle against speech codes that would force Canadians, by law, to use pronouns preferred by “transgender” activists.
“Why should your right to freedom of speech trump a trans person’s right not to be offended,” she demanded.
“Because in order to think, you have to risk being offensive,” said Peterson. “Look at the conversation we’re having right now. You’re certainly willing
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