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PSU professor who resigned over 'wokeism' calls out liberal media

The Portland State University professor who resigned with a scathing public letter over the university's 'wokeism' is calling out the liberal media who he says has ignored covering his resignation.
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 the college a 'social justice factory' that drives 'intolerance of divergent beliefs'.
His resignation - revealed by in her Common Sense substack - has been covered by publications including Fox News and The New York Post, but Boghossian has called out the 'liberal media' for failing to delve into his story.
'I've been deluged with requests to appear on conservative media regarding my resignation from PSU,' he tweeted on Wednesday. 'And yet, I don't consider myself a conservative. I've received zero requests for interviews with liberal media. I'd enjoy having a conversation with you Rachel Maddow, NPR, MSNBC'
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 Boghossian is wondering why outlets he considers to be liberal media like NPR and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow haven't asked him to speak Former professor Peter Boghossian (right) said Portland State had become a 'dogma factory' where free inquiry was no longer possible While smaller publications like MEAWW.com and OPB.org have covered Boghossian's exit, news of the resignation is nowhere to be found in any major left-leaning news organization.
On Thursday night, Boghossian appeared on FOX News to speak out against PSU, saying the university had become a 'dogma factory' where free inquiry was no longer possible.
'They weaponized officers of diversity, equity, and inclusion,' Boghossian told Fox News host Jesse Watters.
'They have these mechanisms in place in the university to enforce certain speech codes against dissident professors, against anyone who questions or challenges what is morally fashionable,' he went on.
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His appearance came the day after he shared his resignation letter with , 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.
Boghossian has since received support for his letter from conservative personalities, including podcast host and former TV host Megyn Kelly, comedian Rob Schneider, Fox commentator Tammy Bruce and historian Niall Ferguson.
Other than Fox News, the New York Post and New York Daily News have been the only major publications to cover the resignation so far.
In an op-ed for the , Jonathan Zimmerman commented on the hypocrisy of left-wing commentators silence on the matter.
'We can't have it both ways. If we want to resist the GOP effort to muzzle our schools and universities, we also need to condemn left-wing attacks on free speech and exchange,' he wrote. 'You can't credibly accuse the other team of censorship when your own side is engaging in it, too.'
His resignation has been covered by conservative and right-wing publications like Fox News and The New York Post (pictured) In an op-ed for the Daily News, Jonathan Zimmerman commented on the hypocrisy of left-wing commentators silence on the matter Boghossian said in his letter that college staff were abdicating their 'truth seeking mission' and instead driving intolerance of 'divergent reliefs' by squashing any view that was not liberal.
'Students at Portland State are not being taught to think. Rather, they are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues,' he wrote.
Boghossian previously penned a collection of hoax papers and submitted them to academic journals to prove that they would print anything that went along with their ideals, even if the theories in them were fake.
They included papers on dog rape and an adaptation to Hitler's Mein Kampf. The left reacted badly to it, saying he'd wasted editors' time.
Boghossian says he was harassed on campus with swastikas written on bathroom walls with his name next to them, purely because he had challenged the university's ideas.
He claims that at one time flyers went around campus depicting him with a Pinocchio nose, that he was spit on and that colleagues told students not to take his class.
Smaller publications like MEAWW.com (pictured) have covered Boghossian's resignation While OPB.org has covered the former professor's resignation, coverage is nowhere to be found in any major left-leaning news organization so far In a statement to DailyMail.com, a spokesman for the university said: 'Portland State has always been and will continue to be a welcoming home for free speech and academic freedom.
'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.
'As with all personnel matters, we have no comment on Dr. Boghossian's statement of resignation.'
In his resignation letter Boghossian 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.
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.
In the end, the investigation found that his accuser's claims were unsubstantiated.
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.
From 2017 to 2018, the trio wrote 20 papers with absurd premises related to social justice. Twitter prohibits sharing of personal photos videos without consent of them were eventually published in reputable journals.
The' study was meant to 'reboot' conversations around topics like gender, race and sexuality, the authors wrote in .
Boghossian says the university accused him of 'not receiving approval to experiment on human subjects' after the trio was found out by reporters at the Wall Street Journal, cutting their hoax short.
'Shortly thereafter, swastikas in the bathroom with my name under them began appearing in two bathrooms near the philosophy department.
Boghossian worked at Portland State University as an assistant professor in the philosophy department. The university has not commented on his claims Boghossian (pictured) resigned from PSU with a scathing public letter calling the university a 'social justice factory' that drives 'intolerance of divergent beliefs' 'They also occasionally showed up on my office door, in one instance accompanied by bags of feces.
'Our university remained silent.
'When it acted, it was against me, not the perpetrators.'
He also described a Title IX investigation against him in the 2016-2017 school year, when a student seemed to have accused Boghossian of beating his wife.
'My accuser, a white male, made a slew of baseless accusations against me, which university confidentiality rules unfortunately prohibit me from discussing further. What I can share is that students of mine who were interviewed during the process told me the Title IX investigator asked them if they knew anything about me beating my wife and children.
'This horrifying accusation soon became a widespread rumor,' he wrote.
Title IX is a 1972 civil rights law that prevents discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.
Boghossian's resignation comes as a slew of school teachers and college professors leave the classroom over similar complaints of a monolithic culture that leaves no room for debate.
Last month, Laura Morris quit in an emotional address at the Loudoun County School Board, where she explained why the 'equity trainings' and political dogma forced her to resign.
She said she could no longer be part of an organization that told her 'white, Christian, able-bodied females' needed to be reined in.
'This summer I have struggled with the idea of returning to school, knowing that I'll be working yet again with a school division that, despite its shiny tech and flashy salary, promotes political ideologies that do not square with who I am as a believer in Christ,' she said.
At $50,000-a-year Dalton in New York City, it was parents who made the first move.
'Every class this year has had an obsessive focus on race and identity, "racist cop" reenactments in science, "de-centering whiteness" in art class, learning about white supremacy and sexuality in health class,' parents of students at the private school wrote in a letter in April.
The head of the school, Jim Best, later resigned.
Some professors have complained that their school are not progressive enough, like when star professor Cornell West resigned from Harvard Divinity School in a letter in July.
West accused the university of denying him a tenured position because of 'the Harvard administration's hostility to the Palestinian cause,' which he supports.
'We all know the mendacious reasons given had nothing to do with academic standards,' he wrote.
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