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PORTLAND, OR – Peter Boghossian, an associate professor who has taught philosophy at Portland State University for the past decade, resigned Wednesday, saying the university has made “intellectual exploration impossible.”

In his resignation letter submitted to Provost Susan Jeffords, Boghossian wrote:

“I never once believed — nor do I now — that the purpose of instruction was to lead my students to a particular conclusion.

Rather, I sought to create the conditions for rigorous thought; to help them gain the tools to hunt and furrow for their own conclusions. This is why I became a teacher and why I love teaching.

“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.” [...]

>PORTLAND, OR – Peter Boghossian, an associate professor who has taught philosophy at Portland State University for the past decade, resigned Wednesday, saying the university has made “intellectual exploration impossible.” > In his resignation letter submitted to Provost Susan Jeffords, Boghossian wrote: > “I never once believed — nor do I now — that the purpose of instruction was to lead my students to a particular conclusion. > Rather, I sought to create the conditions for rigorous thought; to help them gain the tools to hunt and furrow for their own conclusions. This is why I became a teacher and why I love teaching. > “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.” [...]

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Education. Health. Banks. Government fail. Cusp of collapse. Wish just get it over with already.

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Got a few years to go yet. Use the time for wise preparation.

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Don't underestimate how creative they can get at kicking the can down the road. They've been doing it for decades.

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I disagree. Massive, planet-wide medical fraud collision with governments should have convinced you that there's no road left to kick the can down.

They tried globalization, it failed. Now we're living through the collapse.

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Y'all noggets ever been to Reed? I was there in my early 20s. A lot of smart kids on drugs getting hard-core indoctrination.

They also have the only undergraduate operated nuclear reactor in the country.

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Start your own Institute?

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Good for him. Hope he still teaches in some way.

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On one hand, he could stay and try to overturn the liberal hellscape that is university. On the other hand, universities are so far gone, it seems the problem is self rectifying at this point. With all the student loan debt, a bailout would be incredibly unpopular, and there's only so many J1 visas out there you can stuff a college with

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I’m sure he tried to stay and couldn’t take it anymore. There’s no rectifying colleges and most that enroll are a lost cause. I was trying to look at the bigger picture is that you don’t have to stay in a institution like a college to be a teacher. In a way we are all teachers. Niggers teach us about thier lizard like tendencies. Jews teach us about deception. Ect ect. Ok the last part was a joke, or was it...?

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Intellectual exploration is impossible.

I know the feeling.

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Well he was a philosophy professor. What would you expect?

If you want a real education, study a hard science (heavy in math). Still that's no guarantee but this world is full of calculated risks. He would understand how to calculate them better if he didn't fritter away his time with subjective nonsense like philosophy.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/math-association-say-math-inherently-carries-human-biases-citing-critical-race-theory https://nypost.com/2021/02/12/adding-wokeness-oregon-promotes-teacher-program-to-subtract-racism-in-mathematics/ https://summit.news/2021/02/19/bill-gates-bankrolling-educational-organization-that-says-math-is-racist/

Heavy in math, you say?

JK, you are correct, of course. I think his brand of philosophy is the good kind. There's value in philosophy, it just has become a playground of professional masturbators. I recommend Kant and his

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Found a professor with a live functioning brain and critical thinking skills…. The commies will need to set up their firing squads to take care of the one thinking man left in academia’s hollow halls of impotence and ignorance.

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Found a professor with a live functioning brain and critical thinking skills…. The commies will need to set up their firing squads to take care of the one thinking man left in academia

Yes biologically communism selectively breeds intellectual midgets.