Peter Boghossian, a longtime and controversial assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University, resigned last week, accusing the school of becoming a “social justice factory”” and failing to protect him from “continued harassment” he experienced on campus.
Boghossian, who taught at Portland State for a decade, published his resignation letter to the university’s provost online, posting the letter on former New York Times and Wall Street Journal opinion writer Bari Weiss’s website Sept. 8.
In the more than 1,500-word letter, Boghossian says he felt “morally obligated” to resign from the university, where he said a focus on values that sound good, like diversity, inclusion and equity, is leading to the opposite of intended goals. He said this same situation is playing out at colleges across the country.
Intellectual exploration, he said, is now “impossible” at Portland State. “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,” Boghossian wrote.
The university declined to comment on Boghossian’s allegations but confirmed his resignation.
Boghossian is best known for being one of the academics behind a series of “hoax papers” published in various journals in 2018, that he said were designed to show the flaws in peer-reviewed studies in academia. One of the papers claimed there was an epidemic of dog rape at dog parks and that men should be leashed like dogs.
“Our purpose was to show that certain kinds of ‘scholarship’ are based not on finding truth but on advancing social grievances,” Boghossian wrote Sept. 8. “This worldview is not scientific, and it is not rigorous.”
In 2017, Boghossian co-published a study he described in the resignation letter as “intentionally garbled” that argued “penises were products of the human mind and responsible for climate change.”
Following that study, Boghossian said he was subject to harassment, including swastikas drawn in a bathroom with his name and bags of feces left at his office door.
He was found guilty of research misconduct for the 2018 hoax papers. In his resignation letter, Boghossian said that episode was followed by consistent harassment and that the school failed to protect him.
Prior to publishing the hoax papers, Boghossian was the subject of a Title IX discrimination case in the 2016-17 academic year. He said he ultimately was cleared of violating any university rules on discrimination and harassment but was instructed to receive coaching.
Christina Williams, a spokesperson for Portland State, declined to answer specific questions about Boghossian’s resignation or his specific issues with the university, saying the school doesn’t comment on “personnel matters.”
Boghossian submitted his resignation to Provost Susan Jeffords the same day he posted the decision publicly, she said.
“Portland State has always been and will continue to be a welcoming home for free speech and academic freedom,” Williams told The Oregonian/OregonLive Sunday, in the same statement sent to other news outlets. “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.”
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