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asher553 ([personal profile] asher553) wrote2021-09-08 09:48 pm

Peter Boghossian resigns from Portland State.

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/my-university-sacrificed-ideas-for

'But brick by brick, the university has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible. It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a Social Justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division. ...'

Read the whole thing at the link. My good friend Michael Weingrad writes:

'His resignation letter is a fierce and sorrowful indictment of the contemporary academy and a testament to his principles.'

https://twitter.com/weingradmichael/status/1435675338218954755

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