Friday, 9 November 2018

Professor Jordan Peterson on the dangers of criminalising speech

Psychology Professor Jordan Peterson is not everyone’s cup of tea but he had a number of interesting points to make on Question Time recently, particularly on the dangers of criminalising speech and the inextricably related problem of who actually defines what “hate speech” is.

A nuanced approach all too rarely seen in this era of no-platforming and trial by Twitter…

As Peterson puts it: “the criminalisation of what hypothetically constitutes offensive speech is going to be a cure that is so much worse than the disease that we can hardly imagine it.” Food for thought…

Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto.

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