Jordan Peterson Comes out Swinging in Defense of Plus-Size Swimsuit Model CommentsBy Mike Miller
Jul 03, 2022
Influential YouTube personality, author, clinical psychologist, and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, Jordan Peterson has been on quite a roll, recently. And by “quite a roll,” I mean Peterson has been unabashed sticking it to ridiculous radical leftists and their equally-ridiculous virtue-signaling nonsense.
Before we continue, let’s do a quick refresher for those in need of catching up.
Sports Illustrated, in May, released a 2022 Swimsuit Edition cover featuring plus-size model Yumi Nu. While Nu is an attractive woman, SI’s cover was blatant virtue signaling —publicly expressing opinions intended to demonstrate one’s good character or moral correctness on a particular issue — to the max.
Disagree, and the left’s vicious attacks begin, leading many conservatives who might otherwise strike back to remain silent. Except, in this case, Dr. Jordan Peterson, who was far from afraid to say exactly what he thought and why he thought it — in just 14 words:
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Following several more battles with the radical left — we’ll get to those, momentarily — Peterson has doubled down on his comments about the SI cover, Yumi Nu, and the intolerance of the virtual-signaling crowd. In a Thursday email to the Telegraph, Peterson maintained that his controversial tweet “was not a mistake, nor was it the reason I left Twitter.”
He continued, explaining the sentiments that led to his tweet, as transcribed by the New York Post.
The use of that model, who was not athletic (remember: SPORTS Illustrated) was manipulative economically and in relation to the model herself (although she participated in her own exploitation).
Beauty is an ideal. Almost all of us fall short of an ideal. I am not willing to sacrifice any ideal to faux compassion. Period. And certainly not the ideal of athletic beauty.
Bingo. Peterson’s broader point that he is not “willing to sacrifice any ideal to faux compassion” is not only dead-on; it is a lesson for all conservatives in this insane era of endless virtue signaling. To paraphrase the veteran TV anchor Howard Beal (brilliantly played by the late Peter Finch) in the classic film, “Network,” we should all be “mad as hell and not going to take it, anymore!”
Meanwhile, Peterson’s battle against the left continues, as recently reported by RedState:
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