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'My university sacrificed ideas for Ideology': Portland State professor pens scathing resignation letter claiming school has become a 'social justice factory whose only inputs are race, gender, and victimhood'
UK Daily Mail ^ | September 8 2012 | JENNIFER SMITH

Posted on 09/08/2021 11:04:36 AM PDT by knighthawk

A Portland State University professor has resigned in a scathing public letter in which he slammed the university for not allowing any type of thought that didn't suit its liberal agenda, calling it a 'social justice factory' that drives 'intolerance of divergent beliefs'.

Peter Boghossian was a full-time assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University until his resignation letter was published on Wednesday.

He shared the letter with Bari Weiss, a former New York Times columnist who quit her role at the paper after claiming to encounter the same refusal to consider non-liberal ideas that Boghossian describes at PSU.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: peterboghossian; portland; professor; stateuniversity

1 posted on 09/08/2021 11:04:36 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Savagely on point.


2 posted on 09/08/2021 11:06:53 AM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: knighthawk

What happens when you try to make everyone into an intellectual.


3 posted on 09/08/2021 11:08:34 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: knighthawk

This is the guy who blew the whistle on academic journals accepting and publishing nonsense papers. The Left has been after him ever since.


4 posted on 09/08/2021 11:10:59 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Join up with Lt. Col. Scheller and you got something. It starts with Larry Elder next week.


5 posted on 09/08/2021 11:15:47 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: knighthawk

Pretty spot on, The learning of pre-thought thoughts.


6 posted on 09/08/2021 11:17:59 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: knighthawk

Peter Boghossian is alone in the wilds of Portland.
I’m happy to see that there is one man who sees through
the horse-hockey that Portland is full of.


7 posted on 09/08/2021 11:27:53 AM PDT by BatGuano (Ya don't think that I would go into battle with change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: knighthawk

Every “student” should demand their parent’s money back. That would take care of a few dozen. The rest are sheep. Feed them clover, and ignore them, until shearing time.


8 posted on 09/08/2021 11:34:15 AM PDT by Richard Axtell (As if.)
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To: Billthedrill

the dog-park dog-rape one was the best...


9 posted on 09/08/2021 11:42:33 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: knighthawk

It’s starting to happen... the backlash against the stupid closed minded insanity of WOKE totalitarianism...


10 posted on 09/08/2021 11:46:07 AM PDT by GOPJ ($85 billion in weapons for the Taliban? Biden's not smart enough to be this stupid. He's had help.)
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To: Steely Tom
Boghossian previously submitted bogus research papers on topics like canine 'rape' to academic journals to prove how ridiculous ideas were accepted Some of them were published, which proved Boghossian's point

The problem with WOKE is no one is being make into an intellectual... they're all being made into little 'good germans' -- the kind who put humans in ovens... Teaching someone to 'think for themselves teaches them to resist the insane group-think used by commies and stupid wokesters.... not necessarily intellectuals... but not mindless robots.

11 posted on 09/08/2021 11:53:19 AM PDT by GOPJ ($85 billion in weapons for the Taliban? Biden's not smart enough to be this stupid. He's had help.)
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To: knighthawk

Hostile work environment.


12 posted on 09/08/2021 12:10:42 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: knighthawk

One of the responses gave a great name for the liberal ideology: woke supremacy


13 posted on 09/08/2021 12:42:16 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: aimhigh

Another name: The Woke Pantheon.

The Gods of the left rule over the masses with an iron fist.


14 posted on 09/08/2021 1:00:49 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: knighthawk

Which schools would be good?

I can think of Hillsdale and College of the Ozarks. There must be more.


15 posted on 09/08/2021 3:02:11 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: knighthawk

What I find interesting is NOTHING in Corporate Media.


16 posted on 09/08/2021 8:23:39 PM PDT by Valin
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17 posted on 09/09/2021 2:51:36 PM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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