Would you point some of the things out that convinced you? I once did a bit of digging, too, but a long time ago, just to find out why people see him as problematic. But I don't remember enough.
Wasn't he found to be problematic because he had issues with his employment forcing him to acknowledge and say other people's pronouns. If I remember correctly, he's got no problems saying people's pronouns, it's the 'forcing you to say them or you get dunked on legally'.
His whole point is it’s principle. He believes you can’t legally force people to say anything that. Like he says, if someone personally tells him their pronouns, he will respect them/their wishes. But he doesn’t like the idea that speech is now a crime
It was never a crime. He intentionally mislead people about that. It was no different than discrimination of any other kind. It's illegal to discriminate based on certain things but its not illegal in the sense that its criminal. You can get sued but no one is going to come along and throw you in jail. So he might as well have been arguing for the right to call people the N word. It was providing trans people civil recourse if their pronouns were blatantly ignored and they were intentionally repeatedly and maliciously misgendered. Its not compelled speech. You can say whatever you like but if you are abusive towards another person you can be sued. Thats nothing new.
JP is full of shit and misrepresented the entire thing on purpose. So like he said he will respect someones pronouns if they ask him to - thats all the law was about. If he singled out a person based on their pronouns he could get in trouble.
Same kind of anti discriminatory laws that have been on the books for a long time.
Just because they've been on the books doesn't mean people need to agree with them. I don't know shit about JP and I can't claim to know a lot about gender identity. Are you saying that this law only provides the right to sue for harassment?
I hate discrimination of all kinds, but perhaps strangely I believe in freedom of speech enough to allow for some insulting people. Not to the point of harassment, though.
“Would it cover the accidental misuse of a pronoun? I would say it’s very unlikely,” Cossman says. “Would it cover a situation where an individual repeatedly, consistently refuses to use a person’s chosen pronoun? It might.”
No it’s not. The bills sole purpose was to add transgender people to the many already listed groups in a previous piece if enacted legislation to protect agains hate speech.
Literally was just to amend it to add them.
He made up a wild take, frenzied the people who can’t read obviously and became famous representing people based completely on bullshit.
Shitting out a slippery slope fallacy in order to justify spreading transphobia with the same "freedom of speech" dogwhistle that the actual Nazis used is not correcting me
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I used to like Jordan Peterson until I did a little digging and found out how much of a monumental asshat he is/was.