{"id":1478372,"date":"2022-05-17T14:44:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T18:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478372"},"modified":"2022-05-17T14:45:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T18:45:01","slug":"bye-for-now-jordan-peterson-says-he-quit-twitter-after-posting-thoughts-on-plus-sized-swimsuit-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bye-for-now-jordan-peterson-says-he-quit-twitter-after-posting-thoughts-on-plus-sized-swimsuit-model\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bye For Now\u2019: Jordan Peterson Says He Quit Twitter After Posting Thoughts On Plus-Sized Swimsuit Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbye-for-now-jordan-peterson-says-he-quit-twitter-after-posting-thoughts-on-plus-sized-swimsuit-model%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478372&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Jordan-Peterson-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson on Monday said he was leaving Twitter after receiving an \u201cendless flood\u201d of backlash inspired by a recent opinion he shared about a plus-sized model on the cover of the 2022 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe endless flood of vicious insult is really not something that can be experienced anywhere else,\u201d Peterson wrote. \u201cI like to follow the people I know but I think the incentive structure of the platform makes it intrinsically and dangerously insane.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He continued in a follow-up, \u201cSo I told my staff to change my password, to keep me from temptation, and am departing once again. If I have something to say I\u2019ll write an article or make a video. If the issue is not important enough to justify that then perhaps it would be best to just let it go.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In his following tweet, Peterson wrote, \u201cAnd I plan to write an article on the technical reasons that Twitter is maddening us all very soon. Bye for now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There were several tweets and other interactions following this public departure, however, making some fans question whether Peterson was really exiting the social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jordanbpeterson\/status\/1526388875496759296\">said<\/a> he had \u201crecently stopped accessing Twitter for three weeks as an experiment\u201d and had staffers post content in his absence, which might explain why his account was still active.<\/p>\n<p><span>The 59-year-old author went viral for posting his thoughts on a newly released Sports Illustrated cover featuring a plus-sized model.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that,\u201d Peterson wrote in response to a New York Post headline about Yumi Nu, who was announced as a cover model for the 2022 SI Swimsuit Issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rOASeeQvee\">https:\/\/t.co\/rOASeeQvee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jordanbpeterson\/status\/1526279181545390083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Twitter was swift and brutal, denouncing Peterson\u2019s reaction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2019Authoritarian\u2019? Chunky women on magazine covers? You sound like a parody of you,\u201d one Twitter user said in response.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Peterson clarified his position, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a conscious progressive attempt to manipulate &#038; retool the notion of beauty, reliant on the idiot philosophy that such preferences are learned &#038; properly changed by those who know better \u2026 but don\u2019t let the facts stop you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The \u201c12 Rules for Life: An Antidote To Chaos\u201d author also shared links to studies that supported the claim that beauty was quantifiable and could be linked to rates of reproduction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cStandards of beauty change over time. Plus you posted two studies that don\u2019t substantiate your point,\u201d one commenter wrote back. The psychologist\u2019s Twitter feed was flooded with hate and vitriol after he criticized the image.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Peterson also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jordanbpeterson\/status\/1526388875496759296\"><span>discussed<\/span><\/a><span> how he felt \u201cgenuine relief\u201d after taking a three week Twitter hiatus even before this current controversy. \u201cI started using it again, a few days ago, and I would say that my life got worse again almost instantly,\u201d the professor emeritus explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When asked why he used the social media platform at all, Peterson said he\u2019d felt a \u201cmoral obligation\u201d to stay on. He then <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jordanbpeterson\/status\/1526391886465880064\"><span>concluded<\/span><\/a><span>, \u201cTwitter is far more damaging to me than useful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson on Monday said he was leaving Twitter after receiving an \u201cendless flood\u201d of backlash inspired by a recent opinion he shared about a plus-sized model<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1483449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}