The Canadian YouTuber-turned-doctor clip tweeted The Post’s May 16 story about Sports Illustrated cover model Yumi Nu’s debut, saying, “Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.” Hours later, he announced his departure from the popular social networking app amid criticism. Peterson, in a Thursday email to the Telegraph, stood by his statement, maintaining that the tweet “was not a mistake, nor was it the reason I left Twitter. “His use of this non-athletic model (remember: SPORTS Illustrated) was manipulative financially and in relation to the model herself (although she was involved in her own exploitation),” he wrote. “Beauty is an ideal. Almost all of us fall short of an ideal. I am not willing to sacrifice any ideal to false compassion. Period. And certainly not the ideal of athletic beauty.” Peterson refuses to back down from his tweets criticizing model Yumi Nu’s Sports Illustrated cover. Getty Images for SI Swimsuit While his account remained active, the 60-year-old said he told his staff to keep him off social media. “I told my staff to change my password to keep me from being tempted and I’m leaving once again,” he added in an interview with the publication. “If I have something to say, I’ll write an article or make a video. If the matter is not important enough to warrant it, then perhaps it would be better to let it go.” The pause, however, was short-lived. Peterson, who signed a podcast deal with conservative news outlet The Daily Wire Thursday, was suspended from Twitter this week after attacking transgender actor Elliott Page for her “sin.” Footage posted online shows the former University of Toronto professor’s controversial tweet, which reads: “Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal doctor.” Twitter claimed that Peterson violated the Twitter platform’s rules “against hateful conduct.” In his interview with The Telegraph, Peterson argued that while people perceive their own characteristics in the opposite sex, this does not mean they are “in the wrong body”. “So the idea that there is fluidity and overlap in gender personality is true,” she said. “What’s not true is that it means you’re in the wrong body, and that’s not true one bit.”
