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p class="mol-para-with-font">A /news/portland/index<br/><br/><p class= /news/portland/index.html State University professor who resigned in a scathing public letter in which he slammed the university for not allowing any type of thought that doesn't suit its liberal agenda said in a podcast interview that academic institutions are under siege from 'maniacs' with a 'mind virus.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Peter Boghossian was a full-time assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University for 10 years until his resignation letter was published on Wednesday, calling it a 'social justice factory' that drives 'intolerance of divergent beliefs'.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He shared the letter with </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> </div><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="moduleFull mol-video"> <div> <div itemprop="video" itemscope website content="Peter Boghossian speaks on Dr. Debra Soh's podcast before resigning"></div> <meta content="PT01M20S" itemprop="duration"> <meta website itemprop="thumbnailUrl"> <meta website itemprop="contentURL"> <meta content="2021-09-09T13:50:49+0100" itemprop="uploadDate"> <meta content="576" itemprop="height"> <meta content="1024" itemprop="width"> <meta content="Peter Boghossian speaks about 'a particularly powerful mind virus' on Dr. Debra Soh's podcast before resigning from Portland State." itemprop="description"> <div class="item"> </div> </div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> </div><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div> <div data-track-module="am-related_carousel^related_carousel" data-track-selector=".rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])" data-dm-rotator-rotate="false" data-track-pos="static" data-preferred-shared-network-enabled="" data-dm-rotator-auto-init="" id="p-23" class="related-carousel with-fb-or-tw news half" data-dm-rotator-active-class="active" data-dm-rotator-page-count="2.0" data-dm-social-article-auto-init="" data-dm-rotator-page-size="1"> <div class="rotator bdrcc"> <div class="rotator-title"> <ul class="rotator-pages link-xocc"> <li class="rotator-prev"> # </li> <li> # </li> <li> # </li> <li class="rotator-next"> # </li> </ul> </div> <ul class="rotator-panels link-bogr1 linkro-ccox"> <li> /news/article-9970277/Peter-Boghossians-resignation-letter-full.html /news/article-9966963/How-Gretchen-Carlsons-woke-MeToo?-politics-nearly-ended-Miss-America-pageant.html </li> <li> /news/article-9943337/LA-teachers-union-boss-says-doesnt-matter-kids-education-suffered-COVID.html </li> </ul> </div> <u><strong></strong></u> <div class="fb"> <u><strong></strong></u> <h2>Share this article</h2> <div class="share"> <span class="wai">Share</span> </div> </div> </div> </div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Boghossian accused those who follow this ideology of having 'psychological issues' and people who think they should be more accomplished than they are and 'blame the system for their lack of accomplishment.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'The other problem is you have social media, people set out Twitter mobs on people they don't like.'  </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Boghossian added that woke people are 'winning the culture war.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'People now, the idea is to look at the university as an ideology mill.That's such a monstrous departure from the way people have conceived of a university,' he sad.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'People don't go into it but now you have to sign diversity statements, you have to be inclusive... and what they mean by diversity, they don't mean Larry Elder,' he aded, referencing the conservative radio host running to become the first black governor of California in a recall election.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He told Soh that people who beg for diversity and inclusion are doing so because of unearned confidence provided to them by academia and social media. </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-dd11088c8ec3da68" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" website height="354" width="634" alt="In a statement to DailyMail?.com, a spokesman for the university (pictured) said: 'Portland State has always been and will continue to be a welcoming home for free speech and academic freedom.¿ What a load of disingenuous guff!" class="blkBorder img-share" style="max-width:100%"> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-dd11088c8ec3da68" website height="354" width="634" alt="In a statement to DailyMail?.com, a spokesman for the university (pictured) said: 'Portland State has always been and will continue to be a welcoming home for free speech and academic freedom.¿ What a load of disingenuous guff!" class="blkBorder img-share"> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">Boghossian said that people who beg for diversity and inclusion at places like Portland State are doing so because of unearned confidence provided to them by academia and social media</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">'It's about unearned confidence, it's about being an ideologue, it's about being a more virtuous person because you won't even consider the other side of the issue because to consider it is racist and you're a good person and you don't consider racist things.It's the highest sin.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Boghossian says that these ideologies have been brewing in universities for almost 40 years but have 'really accelerated' in the last 20.  </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He believes the problem is that tenure makes professors 'spineless' and 'weak' and unable to push back on these ideas.   </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'If people occupy a position and that position wasn't earned on the basis of merit, then the whole field is compromised.There's a mass crisis of legitimacy.'</p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-810a52059efb2d1f" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" website height="845" width="634" alt="'If people occupy a position and that position wasn't earned on the basis of merit, then the whole field is compromised. There's a mass crisis of legitimacy'" class="blkBorder img-share" style="max-width:100%"> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-810a52059efb2d1f" website height="845" width="634" alt="'If people occupy a position and that position wasn't earned on the basis of merit, then the whole field is compromised. There's a mass crisis of legitimacy'" class="blkBorder img-share"> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">'If people occupy a position and that position wasn't earned on the basis of merit, then the whole field is compromised.There's a mass crisis of legitimacy'</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Media is woke, everything is woke, it's all woke! The consequence of this is that there's no legitimacy.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He did point out that sports are the one field incapable of wokeness because they're predicated on winning, though he did not address sports in which matches can end in draws.   </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'That's why they don't have midgets on professional basketball teams, there's no diversity requirements because you want to win.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">It's far from the first time he's been critical of academia, particularly his now former place of employment.</p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-952251e3df17e1ed" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" website height="634" width="634" alt="Boghossian recently said in a YouTube? conversation with Dave Rubin and Douglas Murray that 'Portland State University is a festering ideological cesspool. I wouldn't even send a dog there'" class="blkBorder img-share" style="max-width:100%"> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-952251e3df17e1ed" website height="634" width="634" alt="Boghossian recently said in a YouTube? conversation with Dave Rubin and Douglas Murray that 'Portland State University is a festering ideological cesspool. I wouldn't even send a dog there'" class="blkBorder img-share"> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">Boghossian recently said in a YouTube? conversation with Dave Rubin and Douglas Murray that 'Portland State University is a festering ideological cesspool.I wouldn't even send a dog there'</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Boghossian recently said in a </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="mol-img-group floatRHS" style="style"> </div><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="mol-article-quote nochannel floatRHS" id="mol-e1611570-10d4-11ec-92c1-e50585424df3"> <div class="mol-article-quote-wrapper ccox"> https://medifraedu.com/members/berntsen55mohamad/activity/60826/ believe that those practices are not in conflict with our core institutional values of student success; racial justice and equity; and proactive engagement with our community. As with all personnel matters, we have no comment on Dr. Boghossian's statement of resignation.'  </div> <div class="mol-article-quote-attribution"> <div> Portland State University spokesperson   </div> </div></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">'We believe that those practices are not in conflict with our core institutional values of student success; racial justice and equity; and proactive engagement with our community. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'As with all personnel matters, we have no comment on Dr.Boghossian's statement of resignation.'  </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Those who asked for evidence to justify new institutional policies were accused of microaggressions. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'And professors were accused of bigotry for assigning canonical texts written by philosophers who happened to have been European and male,' he wrote.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Boghossian says the university failed to take action after a tenured professor interrupted his discussion with author Christina Hoff Sommers and evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying in March 20 https://www.click4r.com/posts/g/3749553/disabled-woman-was-turned-down-for-500-jobs-as-she-was-in-a-wheelchair 8. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He also said activists pulled speaker wires from one of his panels and that someone triggered a fire alarm at another. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Boghossian, in his resignation letter, also describes how university administrators investigated him in 2017 after receiving a complaint under Title XI - which protects against gender or sex based discrimination - from a man. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He said he was informed by students who were interviewed for the investigation that they were asked if he'd ever beat his wife or kids. </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-300ff9a0c53d44f5" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" website height="422" width="634" alt="Boghossian worked at Portland State University as an assistant professor in the philosophy department. The university has not commented on his claims" class="blkBorder img-share" style="max-width:100%"> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-300ff9a0c53d44f5" website height="422" width="634" alt="Boghossian worked at Portland State University as an assistant professor in the philosophy department. The university has not commented on his claims" class="blkBorder img-share"> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">Boghossian worked at Portland State University as an assistant professor in the philosophy department.The university has not commented on his claims </p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">In the end, the investigation found that his accuser's claims were unsubstantiated.  </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Boghossian says the harassment became worse when he produced a series of hoax papers in an effort to prove that academic journals would print them without checking, so long as they seemed to align with left-wing views.   </p><div class="mol-img-group floatRHS" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-1c3fc663fb00b993" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" website height="306" width="306" alt="" class="blkBorder img-share" style="max-width:100%"> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-1c3fc663fb00b993" website height="306" width="306" alt="" class="blkBorder img-share"> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption"></p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">From 2017 to 2018, the trio wrote 20 papers with absurd premises related to social justice. http://www.vegaingenium.it/members/vad25chu/activity/1457106/ of them were eventually published in reputable journals.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The' study was meant to 'reboot' conversations around topics like gender, race and sexuality, the authors wrote in </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS news" data-version="2" id="mol-3883d2c0-114d-11ec-a6d5-8b6c3100eccf" website woke factory of idiots': outpouring support for psu professor< proxy></div>