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…
Jordan Peterson’s Warning Against Criminalising Speech – GuyNews https://t.co/LqLcpVKjdT pic.twitter.com/Mjysy6ZOUo
— Will Corry (@slievemore) November 9, 2018
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.
“Who is going to define hate?”
.@jordanbpeterson argues that the UK should be very careful when restricting freedom of speech. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/h6hY3gdDvF— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) November 8, 2018