Current Events > Saudi Arabia says Jordan Peterson is a political prisoner in Canada

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/saudi-arabia-calls-jordan-peterson-a-political-prisoner

As it crucified a convicted murderer in Mecca on Wednesday, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was also busy crucifying Canadas human-rights recordincluding making the outlandish claim that Canadian author and Internet celebrity Jordan Peterson had been made a political prisoner by Justin Trudeaus government. (Peterson, as far as anyone knows, has never been arrested, although his self-help guide received a rather harsh review in The New York Review of Books.) The bizarre feud began Sunday, when Ottawa condemned Riyadhs arrests of several political activists, including the womens rights campaigner Samar Badawi, and called for their release. The Saudisexhibiting their fondness for disproportionate justiceresponded by expelling the Canadian ambassador, banning new trade, halting upcoming Saudi Airlines flights to Canada, ordering the removal of some 12,000 Saudi citizens studying at Canadian universities, and barring all Saudi citizens from receiving health care in Canada. (The Trump administration, ever a friend to Riyadh, dismissed the tiff as a diplomatic issue and urged both sides to work it out together.)

And still, the saga gets stranger. The Saudi-owned news network Al Arabiya has also joined the fray, posting a series of videos berating Canadas prison system and focusing attention on its suicide rates. In one particularly perplexing video, the channel challenged the arrests of multiple prisoners of conscience in Canada, suggesting that Petersona psychology professor who has recently become a cause clbre on the right for his outspoken views on gender and sexualityis some sort of enemy of the state. It also cites, among other prisoners of conscience, the Holocaust denier Ernst Zndel who, during the 80s, was twice convicted under an uncommon law criminalizing speech that could cause harm to the public interest. (Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, recently passed a law equating criticism of the king of crown prince with terrorisma charge that can be punishable by death.)

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lmao peterson tweeted this and laughed at it saying they should cut off all ties to saudi oil and then praised Trudeau on his handling of the situation

the saudis are losing it

Romes187 posted...

lmao peterson tweeted this and laughed at it saying they should cut off all ties to saudi oil and then praised Trudeau on his handling of the situation

the saudis are losing it

Did the alt right call him a "cuck" for that?

Are they using crucified metaphorically or literally in that first sentence?
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They can have him.

thronedfire2 posted...

Are they using crucified metaphorically or literally in that first sentence?

That's quite literal

BWLurker posted...

Romes187 posted...

lmao peterson tweeted this and laughed at it saying they should cut off all ties to saudi oil and then praised Trudeau on his handling of the situation

the saudis are losing it

Did the alt right call him a "cuck" for that?

The alt right has been calling peterson a cuck for a while now considering he is staunchly anti identity politics and the alt right is heavily in favor of identity politics

Saudi Arabia, a place where throwing homosexuals off of roofs is commonplace, is concerned about the psychological well-being of Canadians and their suicide rates.

Wow.

Fuck the Saudis
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SweetieBelle462 posted...

Fuck the Saudis

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I can't see Peterson liking Saudi Arabia.
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Talk about projection.
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creativerealms posted...

I can't see Peterson liking Saudi Arabia.

I can
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Frolex posted...

creativerealms posted...

I can't see Peterson liking Saudi Arabia.

I can

Just tell him that the Cultural Marxists are secretly plotting the downfall of Saudi Arabia and he'll be waving that green flag in no time.

thronedfire2 posted...

Are they using crucified metaphorically or literally in that first sentence?

Literally.

They literally still literally crucify people.
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