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Portland State Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Peter Boghossian Quit.

2021/9/10
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Peter Boghossian: 博格霍西安认为波特兰州立大学已经成为一个压制思想自由的“社会正义工厂”，他通过发表具有争议性的论文（如“作为社会建构的概念性阴茎”）来揭示学术界的缺陷，并因此遭到报复，最终选择辞职。他认为大学应该是一个自由探究真理的地方，而不是一个强制执行特定意识形态的地方。他强调了批判性思维和证据的重要性，并呼吁人们抵制非理性思维和对不同观点的不容忍。他认为，大学应该是一个追求真理和促进理性讨论的地方，而不是一个被意识形态控制的地方。他经历了多次调查和骚扰，最终决定离开波特兰州立大学，因为他无法再在这样的环境中进行自由的学术研究和教学。他认为，大学应该是一个自由探究真理的地方，而不是一个强制执行特定意识形态的地方。他呼吁人们关注大学中日益严重的非自由主义现象，并为维护学术自由而努力。 Barry Weiss: 作为访谈主持人，魏斯引导博格霍西安讲述了他离开波特兰州立大学的经历，并探讨了大学中日益严重的非自由主义现象。他与博格霍西安讨论了“概念性阴茎”论文和“不满研究项目”的意义，以及这些项目如何揭示了学术界中存在的知识腐烂和意识形态偏见。他还探讨了大学中言论自由和思想自由受到威胁的问题，以及如何应对这些挑战。魏斯还与博格霍西安讨论了如何保持正直和勇气，以及如何在面对不公正时保持希望。

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Peter Boghossian discusses his resignation from Portland State University, detailing his experiences with critical thinking and the transformation of the university into a 'social justice factory'.

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Peter Boghossian is the first one to tell you: he's no victim of cancel culture. The philosophy professor has long had a taste for stoking debate, questioning orthodoxies, and exposing the brokenness of an academic system that values identity-based grievances over scholarship. He did that, in part, by writing phony papers like "The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct" and getting them published by respected, peer-reviewed journals. 

That project and others painted a target on Peter’s back on Portland State's campus, where he was subjected to endless investigations and harassment. 

This week, Peter resigned in a letter writing to the school's provost: “The university transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a social justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender and victimhood and whose only output was grievance and division.”

In this episode, a frank conversation about the culture of higher education, and how to fight back against radicalism without becoming radicalized yourself.

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