{"id":393183,"date":"2019-01-17T12:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/widespread-student-support-for-beleaguered-professor-peter-boghossian\/"},"modified":"2019-01-17T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:22:52","slug":"widespread-student-support-for-beleaguered-professor-peter-boghossian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/widespread-student-support-for-beleaguered-professor-peter-boghossian\/","title":{"rendered":"Widespread student support for beleaguered professor Peter Boghossian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Widespread student support for beleaguered professor Peter Boghossian<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at Portland State University<br \/>\n    <br \/>17 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Professor Peter Boghossian of the Philosophy Department at Portland State University (PSU) is at risk of losing his job due to the publishing of the so-called \u201cgrievance studies\u201d hoax last fall. The articles he wrote with non-academic colleagues James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose were made-up, satirical pieces of research that mimicked the post-modernist language of \u201ccritical\u201d race, gender and sexuality studies.<\/p>\n<p>Eight of their \u201choax\u201d articles were accepted by journals, including a \u201cradical feminist\u201d edit of part of Adolf Hitler\u2019s <em>Mein Kampf<\/em> and proposals to train men like dogs after observing \u201crape culture\u201d in Portland dog parks.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by Portland State University found Boghossian to be in violation of academic ethics and standards of the Institutional Review Board. These bureaucratic mechanisms have been brought down on the scholar after months of backlash from dominant pseudo-left forces within academia, specifically from the humanities and social sciences. Boghossian awaits to hear what disciplinary action will be taken against him, which includes the possibility of losing his job.<\/p>\n<p>Early this week, members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at PSU distributed dozens of leaflets around the campus early and spoke with students about the \u201cgrievance studies\u201d hoax. Even though no tenured or adjunct faculty at PSU have come on record to defend Boghossian against retaliation, there exists a sentiment of support among students and staff who are disillusioned with identity politics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quinn<\/strong>, a pre-med student at PSU, heard about the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/17\/hoax-j17.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Widespread student support for beleaguered professor Peter Boghossian By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at Portland State University 17 January 2019 Professor Peter Boghossian of the Philosophy Department at Portland State University (PSU) is at risk of losing his job due to the publishing of the so-called \u201cgrievance studies\u201d hoax last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}