Joe Rogan has weighed in on Jordan Peterson’s attacks on transgender actor Elliot Page – and it might not be what you expected.
The popular podcast host criticized the conservative author and former University of Toronto professor for disparaging Page and using his “dead name,” Ellen.
Twitter suspended Peterson after he tweeted that Page’s breasts were removed by a “criminal physician” flagging his tweets as a violation of the platform’s rules on “hateful conduct.”
Tuesday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience featured actor Zachary Levi, who described Peterson as one of the world’s “deepest thinkers” who “has a lot of integrity,” but admitted he “has his own things that people have issues with.”
He added: “Like, I get it. Nobody’s perfect.”
Rogan noted that Peterson was kicked off Twitter for “dead-naming” Page.
Levi agreed, “It’s sad, man, because again, there’s a lot of fear and pain on all that. All the sides of that too.”
Rogan then referenced comedian Brian Simpson’s opinion.
“My friend Brian Simpson had a very good thing to say about that,” he said. “He was like ‘I come to you for, like, heavy duty intellectual s***. Not for this.’
“Like, this is not a thing to be getting offended about.”
Levi tried to defend Peterson, saying, “It’s his Twitter, or was his Twitter anyway,” but Rogan said that the “transgender thing” tends to rile people up.”
“Like, everybody’s in favour of everybody doing whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody until it gets to the gender – and then people start getting weird,” Rogan continued.
“They start thinking it’s a mistake. They start thinking, ‘Why you doing that?’ They start thinking all kinds of things.”
Peterson tweeted in June, “Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.”
But his removal from Twitter didn’t stop him from bringing up Page again.
Shortly after the Umbrella Academy star covered Esquire magazine last month, Peterson told podcaster Kyle Kulinski, “See, I would’ve left Ellen Page alone if she hadn’t been parading her new abs in a fashion magazine.”
He then asked, “How many kids do you think she convinced to convert, one? A thousand?”
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