Name: 2017/03/27: Dr. Oren Amitay and the Ontario Psychological Association
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Okay, so I'm speaking with her or in Amity.

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And you may remember that Dr Emma Tate had invited me awhile back to speak at Ryerson University on a Saturday.

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And that's being a rather popular YouTube video.

And he's being defending me and making comments about free speech on the Ontario Psychological Association list.

Well, maybe you could tell everybody what's been happening.

So back in November 1 of our members, I won't put out her name, but she wrote, Ah, piece where she basically I'll just say what I wrote.

She basically said that, um that you shouldn't have a forum for discussing what you were supposed to discuss.

And that was the talk that you were going to have the University of Toronto.

And so she wrote a piece on and put online, and she posted to the list serv and I essentially wrote in my email to the list of ever, ever in a number of comments about this on.

Mostly, I've been saying, every time one of your stories comes up or another similar story comes out I'm posting it.

They're saying, Look, this is what's going on.

This is a legitimate concern about ideology run amok.

And either I get met by silence or I get people, you know, ask me why I'm so angry or why I'm taking so personally or I get people email me back channel mostly older people, mostly older psychologists who say we support you completely but were afraid to say anything because of the consequences.

What consequences do you think they're afraid of that?

I mean, I some of them work with these colleagues.

Others may be trying to get professorships.

They're trying to get tenure, and they're afraid that the people who do ah hold positions in aka in academia could hold him down.

I think that it's a perverse effect of the 10 year system, me because it tends to silence people before they have tenure, and so that of course, they practice being silent.

And by the time they do have tenure, if you've practiced being silent for 100 10 years, then or six years for that matter, then it's gonna be pretty hard to break that habit.

So what are they objecting to with regards to your postings?

So whenever I post something, it starts off pretty neutrally.

And I've written a long message to the Ontario Psychological Association I sent to the president.

They are convening, or they had convened a meeting to deal with this issue.

And I said, I have not actually do anything wrong.

I post links to story such as yours, like the last Friday wanted McMaster.

Either somebody will imp you might character or my motives.

Recently, somebody had implied that your message is full of hate.

They actually use that words and some of us hate in his heart, you know, so and by extension myself or they will ask a question and I will address it.

But for the most part, they're mischaracterizing what I'm stating.

And so I will simply say, Look, I did not say that.

Show me where I said that, and more often than not, they're not picking on any specific issue.

Apparently, if you're on one side of an issue, it's okay.

If you occupy a different position, they won't accept it.

What do you think is going to happen and what have people like you said that they've convened in a so called emergency meeting about this issue and right?

So do you have any idea why it's an emergency and and what what they're planning to do?

Well, I think they considered emergency because one of the board members, she's the one who wrote that piece saying that you shouldn't have this debate and I She took umbrage at a post.

I wrote where you know she's from Boise and you know, I don't say this like I'm not being facetious.

She's from Boise and that boy zero instituted the studies and education for those of you who don't know and it's a you might.

If you're feeling charitable, you would recall it regarded as ideologically possessed, right?

So So she's from Boise, and she's the one who wrote the piece, and then somebody else will always, he wrote What anybody, any reasonable person would say.

It was a fair comment, which is trying to say, Look, can we all just be a bit more polite in our tone?

More respectful And she listed five points that we should all aspire to, which I don't disagree with.

But the problem is, she's also from always E.

And there's a subtext to the message, which is basically this message is directed at me.

So what I did was, I wrote, and by the way she posted this after the president had already shut down the discussion.

As soon as he shuts it down, I you know, I retract.

I'm not going to say anything but to other people put postings on and they know directly, you know, basically, like I said, they mischaracterized me.

And so I spoke out and in one of my pieces I said to her, If you really believe in what you're saying, I said, Please make sure you apply this to the people who are on the other side.

The ones were calling to shut down this discussion, I said, Can you say that the president of the O.

The discussion What exactly does that mean?

Well, he sends out an email and says, Please, this is getting a bit out of hand.

That's a, uh, people try not to cause conflict.

Well, stop posting, which I have done, and their concern is I think, that the tone gets out of hand.

And again, I don't think there's any tone.

The worst you can say about my tone is it's blunt.

It's literally every single time I say, Show me where I said this, you know, Or if you, you know you're mischaracterizing that or I say your argument is irrational, it Sorry z relevant.

Basically, you know, don't appeal to emotion.

Let's deal with them and, you know, and the Tauron Do you have any examples of this sort of things that you've posted that you could get your share with us?

So this woman who again posted something that seemed reasonable.

Um, I basically said to her, I said something.

Some members might find my direct, rational, logical and fact based fact based messages not only with respect to the issues themselves, but also with respect to Crane's, made by those who disagree with me.

For instance, when I respectfully state, please show me where he said or did this to be rude, offensive or inappropriate, which to me is a gross misuse of such terms.

However, some of those same people have directly stated or implied that I am a misogynist, a transform a big, hateful, reprehensible, unreasonable and unwilling or unable to engage in a respectful discourse.

The next step is where I got where things got heated, I said, Moreover, and I meant to the colleague I alluded to a few minutes ago explicitly stated on this list serve in November that she did not believe that Jordan Peterson should have been given a forum to discuss what any reasonable person would agree is far from an unequivocal issue.

She posted a link I posted to an online article she Cro co wrote, and this is critical that stated her reasons for what most objective people should find a concerning call for censorship of not only non hateful ideas but also scientific investigation and discussion as well.

A civil debate about poorly conceptualizing worded legislation that could potentially cause unforeseen harm.

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