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Conservative Party of Canada leadership frontrunner Pierre Poilievre joined Dr. Jordan Peterson on the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, released Monday, to discuss his candidacy and a number of issues animating the campaign, including housing and inflation, defunding the CBC, and the Freedom Convoy protests that paralyzed Ottawa for several weeks this past winter.

Poilievre reiterated his support for the peaceful protesters among those that gathered at the nations capital, saying that the vaccine mandates targeting the truckers were unscientific and malicious and that this was never about medical science, it was about political science. It was about demonizing a small minority for political gain, and Im proud of the fact that people stood up and fought for their freedoms in that case.

To prevent future impositions on civil liberties, Poilievre pledged to reexamine the Emergencies Act:

Im consulting with legal scholars on how we can curtail the power and limit the use of the Emergencies Act in the future. I want to be very careful though in how I do it because this is an incredibly blunt instrumentin times of war or foreign attack or something like that you can understand why there might be an occasion where these powers might be neededbut I do think we need to craft changes to the Act that will prevent it from being abused for political purposes like this again.

In contrast to the first official CPC leadership debate where candidates were forbidden from speaking Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus name, Poilievre here took the opportunity to forcefully denounce Trudeau, calling him an egomaniac and objectively unpopular.

Trudeau was not the only political figure to draw criticism, as Poilievre also took aim at Steven Guilbeault, the minister of environment and climate change, labelling him bonkers and a total nut. Peterson in turn characterized New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh as stunningly and singularly devoid of ideas, and I havent seen anything come out of the NDP federally that isnt woke nonsense.

Poilievre also expounded on many of the messages that have served to draw substantial crowds to his rallies, including the importance of removing gatekeepers and increasing freedoms, commenting that there is a growing gap between the the have nots and the have yachts.

Summarizing his own motivations for leadership, he contrasted his message as one of hope for Canadians of all classes, especially the workers who are being left behind:

What bothers me most about politics in Canada is that there is a comfortable establishment that sits on top and governs for itself at everyone elses expense, and the people who do the nations workthe plumber, the electrician, the truck driver, the police officerhave almost no share of voice. I want to empower those people and disempower the political establishment. Thats my mission, thats my purpose, and I believe in it. I actually do believe in what I say. I truly believe that the ideas and the political approach that I advance are right. So having that purpose allows me to persevere through all of the nastiness and the exhaustion of political life.

Also in the line of fire was the CBC, which Poilievre again committed to defunding if he were ever to become prime minister. He says he is unworried about the backlash from Canadas mainstream media, who he claims were just as unfair to his Conservative predecessors even though they did not challenge the CBC directly.

Yeah, theyre going to come after me guns blazing, I know that, he said, But they would do that even if I werent taking the principled stand on defunding them.

Appearing on Petersons podcast might be a sign that Poilievre is doing an end-run around traditional media outlets, preferring to bypass the left-wing media, as he described them in the first leadership debate. To date, his media strategy has prioritized non-traditional, direct conversations to reach voters, such as this March 29 video from Tahini Mediterranean Cuisines YouTube channel that featured Poilievre smoking shisha and discussing Bitcoin.

Petersons podcast is a platform with a substantial reach that even outstrips traditional news channels. Petersons YouTube page has nearly five million subscribers and his videos average over half a million views. The Poilievre interview had more than 200,000 views by mid-day on Tuesday.

Peterson, who Tyler Cowen has called one of the worlds leading public intellectuals and who David Brooks described as the most influential public intellectual in the Western world, rose to prominence due to his opposition to the federal Bill C-16, which he resisted on the grounds that it legislated compelled speech.

While Peterson has generally stayed uninvolved in Canadian politics outside of his youthful dalliance with Albertas New Democratic Party, Peterson did interview the Peoples Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier during the last federal campaign.

Speaking with Poilievre, Peterson commended his courage for agreeing to be interviewed:

Ive asked other politicians, including some on the conservative side, and Ive had some agree to speak with me, but generally they seem intimidated by the span of time that stretches out in front of them. Or perhaps, [theyre] not cognizant fully of the power of YouTube dialogue.

Peterson has grown increasingly critical of Trudeaus vaccine mandates and his recent handling of the Freedom Convoy protests, calling him a liar and a narcissist in an interview at the Hoover Institution on May 9. On February 19, Peterson released an original song, Wake Up, that was Dedicated, under the current unfortunate conditions, to the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honorable Justin Trudeau.

At the height of the protests on January 31, Peterson took to Instagram to directly appeal to several conservative politicians, naming Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Ontario Premier Ontario Doug Ford, and then-opposition leader Erin OToole, and urging them to support the movement and remove the vaccine mandates.

What in the world are you waiting for? Its your moment. Youve got a huge number of Canadians occupying Ottawa, expressing their dismay with the suspension of our charter rights in the face of this so-called emergency, Peterson said. Our prime minister has literally abandoned the city, run away, as far as I can tell.

He continued, Youre not going to get a better opportunity. This is your moment, conservatives in Canada.

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This week a 59-year-old white man tweeted a photo of a 25-year-old Asian woman, declaring her not beautiful.

The woman was Yumi Nu, an American-Japanese singer-songwriter. The photo in question was of Nu, in her bigger body, in a pair of black swimming togs on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine.

The man making the public service announcement was Jordan Peterson, a controversial psychologist with a social media following of millions.

Hes been simultaneously described as the most-influential public intellectual in the Western world right now, dangerous, and as a culture warrior.

And so this week, another culture war ensued.

As Peterson and his followers made their pressing contributions to the essential debate on female beauty standards, most women simply added the familiar rhetoric to that well-established alarm centre in their brain that sirens: Do not be fat, be anything but fat.

And other people listened on with their active eating disorders. In America, 10,200 deaths are the direct result of eating disorders every year, with about 26% of people with eating disorders attempting suicide.

But yeah, lets discuss womens bodies like theyre an objective piece of publicly owned property. Lets loudly debate what they should look like for us, deaf to the consequences of our conversations. And if anyone has a personal problem with our ideological sparring, lets flip roles and play the victim.

While some split hairs over the ideology of beauty, many others quite literally split themselves in two in the pursuit of it.

Why?

It was this very question that led Sabrina Strings, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, to discover that it is actually racism that underpins our societys centuries-old fatphobia.

A petty online culture war in 2022 disintegrates into its rightful place of irrelevance when you realise the racist origins of our desire to not be fat.

Strings, whose grandmother grew up in the segregation of the Jim Crow south, remembers her saying: These white women are killing themselves to be thin. Why are they doing that?

Her grandmothers observation stayed with her. But for Strings, she didnt just encounter the phenomenon in white women.

Almost 20 years ago, Strings was working in a HIV clinic, where she encountered women sacrificing their health to be thin.

I had spoken to a couple of women, both HIV-positive, who refused to take their HIV medications for fear of gaining weight, said Strings. And that blew my mind. And it immediately took me back to conversations Id been having with my grandmother.

Like, oh my gosh, she was onto something so important. You know, when she was talking about it, she saw it as largely a white phenomenon. But the women I interviewed that day were both women of colour.

The academic would go on to research the topic and write a seminal and multi-award winning book on it Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, published in 2019.

And what did she find?

There were of course the big magazines of the 1800s, such as Harpers Bazaar, warning upper-class white women to watch what they eat.

And they were unapologetic in stating that this was the proper form for Anglo-Saxon Protestant women, said Strings. And so it was important that women ate as little as was necessary in order to show their Christian nature and also their racial superiority.

Thats all well and good for white women to track the origin of diet culture for them, but what was driving that kind of media 200 years ago?

It was about black people and white people, and what characteristics could define each, and therefore separate them.

One of the things that the colonists believed was that black people were inherently more sensuous, that people love sex and they love food, and so the idea was that black people had more venereal diseases and that black people were inherently obese because they lack self-control, writes Strings.

And of course, self-control and rationality, after the Enlightenment, were characteristics that were deemed integral to whiteness.

Body size linked to freedom

Body size, therefore, became a characteristic that was used to suggest who deserved freedom, and who didnt, argues Strings.

Irish bodies feature heavily in Stringss book. The thinkers, speakers, and public intellectuals of the 1800s werent too fond of our bodies, our restraint, or apparent lack of it.

The Irish predilection for overeating was constitutional, believed Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle, whose work existed around the time of the Great Famine.

It was a deficiency that proved their inherent, intractable racial inferiority, writes Strings in her book. She explains how the Irish were deemed an inferior European race in the 1800s by the authors of new racial theories.

Anglo-Saxons were the pure white race, whereas other Europeans, principally the Celtic Irish, were deemed an inferior or hybrid European race.

British doctor and ethnologist James Cowles Prichard, who died in 1848, treated the Irish as part African and part Asiatic.

Now, hundreds of years later, the racist origins of diet culture have been somewhat disguised and we have culture warriors naively debating notions of beauty.

Not unless you are someone like Strings, or DaShaun L Harrison, author of Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, or those who work in the area of bodyliberation such as Marquisele Mercedes, @fatmarquisele or Lindley Ashline, @bodyliberationwithlindley.

But there will always be the gaslighting, the obfuscation, with people now arguing that the desire to be slim at all costs, has nothing to do with racism, and everything to do with health.

A study of 11,000 people might debunk the claim that slim equals healthy.

In the US study Healthy Lifestyle Habits and Mortality in Overweight and Obese Individuals, researchers wanted to understand the impact of health-promoting behaviours on disease risk.

They measured the 11,000 peoples weight, alongside four other behaviours: Eating five or more fruit and vegetables daily, exercising regularly, consuming alcohol in moderation and not smoking.

What did they find? A lot.

Engaging in just one of the four behaviours cut disease risk in half. And engaging in all four behaviours meant disease risk was roughly the same, regardless of weight.

This isnt the only study far from it proving you can exist in a bigger body and be healthy at the same time.

Adipose tissue isnt the issue, oppression, via racism and misogyny are. Diet culture and its proponents are achieving exactly what in the world? Personal notoriety and pounds in their pockets.

Imagine all the things you could expend your precious energy on if you no longer kept such vigilant check on your body.

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A Scottsbluff officersustained injuries after twomen resisted arrest during a disturbance call investigation.

Monday, May 23rd 2022, 12:21 PM MDT

SCOTTSBLUFF -- A Scottsbluff police officersustained injuries after twomen resisted arrest during a disturbance call investigation.

At 8 p.m. Friday, Scottsbluff polices were dispatched to the Blue Bird Trailer Court regarding a disturbance. The communications center advised a male had been stabbed and was refusing medical treatment. Officers arrived on scene and contacted the two intoxicated males involved in the disturbance.

Officers were able to determine no one had been stabbed.

As a result of the investigation, Michael Geschwind, 66, was arrested for obstructing apolice officer and transported to the Scotts Bluff County Detention Center.

The other man involvedwas transported to Regional West Medical Center due to injuries and issued a citation for disorderly conduct, obstructing apolice officer, and resisting arrest and released to medical staff. One officer was injured during the incident.

The Scottsbluff Police Department was assisted by the Scotts Bluff County Sheriffs Office, Scottsbluff Fire Department, and Valley Ambulance.

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Author Jordan Peterson announced that he was quitting Twitter after receiving backlash for calling plus-size model Yumi Nus Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover not beautiful.

Nu, who is also a singer-songwriter, made history last year as Sports Illustrated Swimsuits first Asian curve model. Nu, who is of Japanese and Dutch ancestry, is also the granddaughter of Benihana founder Rocky Aoki and the niece of DJ Steve Aoki.

Peterson sparked outrage on Monday after tweeting, Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.

Petersons post prompted over 20,000 replies and over 52,000 likes.

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Twitter users were divided, with several of his own fans condemning Peterson for publicly insulting a womans looks. Others shot back that Nu was overweight and unhealthy.

Why do men feel its their duty to publicly pronounce their view on the attractiveness of women? Couldnt you keep it to yourself? demanded one user.

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Some argued that beauty standards have changed over time, with curvier women being the ideal at one point and thinness being desirable at another.

Its obvious you have never been to an art museum in Europe, stated one user, whose response garnered several thousand likes. Some of the most memorable paintings, Ive ever seen in my lifetime, were of women that looked just like this.

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Under their caption is an image of a naked, curvaceous woman believed to be from the 17th century being embraced by a man at her feet.

Several of Petersons own fans disagreed with his ideas of beauty.

Im a huge fan of yours & am always getting my young adult sons & daughter to watch your videos, one user began. But I have to disagree. Beauty is subjective. You can be older or heavier & still be beautiful. Is it standard beauty? No.

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I love your talks but this comment is beyond disappointing. you may not even know on how many levels this is disturbing. try interviewing more young women on your podcasts. youve got a lot to learn. until then, stop criticizing womens bodies, wrote another user.

Once hailed by the New York Times as the most influential public intellectual in the Western world, the University of Toronto professor emeritus initially seemed unfazed by the comments he received.

Rage away, panderers. And tell me you believe such images are not conscious and cynical manipulation by the oh-so-virtuous politically correct, he said.

However, Peterson posted a series of tweets shortly after, stating that he would be staying off the social platform.

I recently stopped accessing Twitter for three weeks as an experiment, he wrote 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.

Peterson 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.

Peterson added that he also plans to write an article on the technical reasons that Twitter is maddening us all very soon. He ended the series of posts with, Bye for now.

Despite announcing that he would quit the platform, Peterson has proceeded to post more content. He shared in another post that he felt torn between the responsibility to stay informed and provide value to [his] subscribers, and the observation of the unacceptably toxic nature of Twitter.

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Psychologist and author Jordan Peterson has announced he plans on leaving Twitter while complaining about the "endless flood" of insults he receives on the platform.

Peterson, who has more than 2.7 million followers on Twitter, described how he recently stopped accessing the social media site for three weeks as an "experiment" and then found that his life "instantly" got worse once he started using it again.

It is unclear what insults the divisive figure known for controversial opinions is referring to, but the remarks came after he was criticized for his tweet calling plus-size model Yumi Nu's Sports Illustrated cover "not beautiful" and that "no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that."

In a series of tweets, Peterson explains that he will be "departing" Twitter once again and will soon write an article explaining further issues he has with the platform.

"I recently stopped accessing Twitter for three weeks as an experiment. 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," Peterson wrote.

"The endless flood of vicious [insults] 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.

"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."

In another tweet, Peterson says he plans to write an article on the "technical reasons that Twitter is maddening," ending the post with "bye for now."

Despite leaving a goodbye message, Peterson continued to tweet several more times, including retweeting the controversial profile "Libs of TikTok"an account accused of posting content designed to vilify the LGBTQ+ communityon three occasions.

Hours before he announced he was leaving, Peterson was highly criticized over his tweet about Nu, who became the first Asian-American plus-size model to feature on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

"Jordan Peterson gets to give this verdict of Yumi Nu bc he's just so god-damned good looking," tweeted comedian John Fugelsang in response to Peterson's "not beautiful" post.

Actor Ralph Garman wrote: "Or, and follow me here, you simply say 'That's not for me' and then promptly f**k off."

Peterson has been contacted for comment.

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