Street Epistemologist Reid Nicewonder begins this conversation with two Portland State University students. They examine the claim, “Racial justice should be the highest priority of the university.” One student stands on “Slightly Agree” and the other on “Disagree.”
Peter Boghossian jumps in as host halfway through the discussion to focus on one student’s perception that university officials don’t truly address racism, but are simply “performative” activists. When she mentions PSU President Stephan Percy, Peter reveals that the claim being discussed came directly from Percy.
This student also proposes that university officials, including Percy, should participate in one of these conversations. It turns out Percy did briefly participate earlier that day on the issue of overpopulation, but left early. (We think he left when he realized Peter Boghossian was the host. When Peter resigned from PSU, he excoriated university officials for creating an ideologically intolerant environment.)
Footage of Percy’s departure from the conversation at 26:02.
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There is another subtle form of racism not addressed by the speakers in this video. See https://ecclesiastes911.net/tools_of_racism/
Then the cross-sex ideology wants to attach to racial equity. I stumbled on this equation 30 years ago when I discovered my then husband's cross-dressing diaries. The rhetoric he came back with regarding his betrayals and lies attacked me, the mother of our 1 and 4 year old in exactly the same way. The only difference is that now, we're told it's getting more common--back then it was supposedly "very rare."
Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)
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