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Jordan Peterson Quits Twitter After Slamming SI Swimsuit Model As ‘Not Beautiful’
“I would say that my life got worse again almost instantly.”
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson has decided to take his leave from Twitter after his tweet on a swimsuit model came under fire. The man had shared with his 2.7 million followers that Yumi Nu who made it to Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit cover was “not beautiful.“
And he’s now taking in the full wrath of the internet. Peterson commented that the “structure of the platform” makes the “vicious insult” turn into an incentive that can be “dangerously insane.”
He’d previously been staying away from Twitter for three weeks for an experiment. Peterson said, “I had some of my staff post video links etc. It was a genuine relief. I started to read & write more.”
“I started using it again, a few days ago, and I would say that my life got worse again almost instantly,” he continued.
“The endless flood of vicious insult is really not something that can be experienced anywhere else.”
“I like to follow the people I know but I think the incentive structure of the platform makes it intrinsically and dangerously insane,” the professor from the University of Toronto shared his thoughts. “So 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’ll 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.”
His criticism of the model’s appearance was not welcomed by Twitter where he gets slammed for body-shaming the model.
Yumi Nu is a model who’s also catwalked alongside supermodels such as Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid.
She’s also appeared in multiple Vogue issues, including Vogue Japan’s cover. But Peterson slammed her appearance as part of “a conscious progressive attempt to manipulate & retool the notion of beauty, reliant on the idiot philosophy that such preferences are learned & properly changed.”
He also left with a plan to release an article on “the technical reasons that Twitter is maddening us all very soon.”
Twitter reacts violently to his claim. One wrote, “Recap: Peterson lets loose with perhaps the most misogynistic tweet of the year so far from a well-known person singling out a specific woman. He’s rebutted and ratioed. (Free speech!) Avoiding any self-examination, he leaves, blames Twitter, and ironically claims he was harassed.”
However, Jordan has continued tweeting since claiming that he’s leaving.
