Jordan Peterson headed to sensitivity training
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss Jordan Peterson's fight with the College of Psychologists, and the implications for the rest of the mental health profession of the proposed law that would require all members of the College to attend a course on Indigenous affairs.
Transcript
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He obviously shouldn't just go to it and take it seriously.
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It is for the public good that he mocks it and he ridicules it, exposes it for what it is.
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But here is the thing with everything that goes on around Jordan Peterson
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and his fight with the College of Psychologists.
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it doesn't matter whether you're talking about doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists,
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real estate agents even, are all insisting on their members signing on to a particular world view.
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Right here in Alberta, the Law Society has demanded that all members of the Alberta Bar
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And there is a certain perspective that you are expected to show.
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I mean, there's a number of articles that have come out of this.
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And Glenn Blackett was our original source on that.
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And excellent material, which finally ended up in one of Ted Morton's books, by the way.
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One of our, you know, his textbook quality is some of the stuff that's coming out in the Western Standard.
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Anyway, point is, you lose your license if you don't fill in the dots.
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Even institutions such as the ATB, Alberta Treasury Branch,
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are asking their employees, telling their employees to go and take the course.
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Well, that remains to be seen because there haven't been too many test cases.
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And certainly if you look in the literature, you can find lawyers now talking about what could happen.
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I'd have to pick up Levitt, who writes in the National Post.
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And he just says, some employees may wonder, can my employer force me to attend these workshops?
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Well, the answer to the first question is, they can't force you.
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The second question, the answer to the second question,
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is that actually an employer can terminate an employee for any reason,
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And if you refuse the instruction to go to one of these things,
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that might be cause and they wouldn't even have to pay severance.
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It's, you know, you don't have to take it, but if you don't take it, you're going to get crazy talk around here.
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So, you know, the thing is, everybody gets scared.
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They say, well, look what they did to Jordan Peterson.
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So if they can pin this off him, on him, and make it stick,
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well, there's the test case, if the most effective, articulate exponent of the counterpoint of view gets axed,
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well, what's going to happen to somebody who's just a regular psychologist, regular doctor, regular teacher,
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Well, they get fired, just like Jordan Peterson.