Thread by @Telegraph

❌Cancel culture is personal for Jordan Peterson.

“This isn’t a battle between two viewpoints, it’s nothing that trivial” he says

Peterson speaks to The Telegraph's @DiaChakravarty 👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/1…

Peterson, invoking his professional experience in clinical psychology, believes that “if you can’t say what you think, soon you won’t be able to think, because mostly we think in words”

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“The issue is there is no distinction between free speech and free thought. And there’s no thought without free thought. Thought by its nature is either free or it doesn’t exist."

🎓“This isn’t a battle for some right. This is a battle for the heart of universities"

The curious thing about Peterson is the extreme reaction he seems to invoke.

Venerated by some as a prophet, to others he is “tantamount to Satan himself”.

📚“It's been a weird year because it’s the same year that a book written about my ideas was given to the Pope” he says

It is, says Peterson, “barbaric” to judge people “merely as a consequence of the outcomes of their actions”.

📅“That is what law used to be 5,000 years ago, before we got sophisticated enough to consider intent. We are just reversing now, casually.”

🗣️“Anyone with any sense who has any privilege has guilt about it" says Peterson

One must then “try to live a life that justifies those advantages. You take the burden of the catastrophe of history on to yourself and you take that seriously."

Read the full interview 👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/1…