Five years ago, I resigned from Portland State University. The institution had become an ideological cesspool whose administrators were morally enfeebled midwits.
I wrote and rewrote my letter of resignation. After each draft, I sent it to friends. Every single person told me the same thing: The examples are too crazy. Take them out. Nobody will believe them. “But they happened,” I insisted. “They’re too insane. They’re beyond belief. Take them out,” my friends countered. So, I took them out.
Here are just a few of the examples I removed:
During a faculty training on diversity, I asked why there were no diverse views. Why did we never heard from anyone who disagreed with diversity as a first principle? For that question I was summoned by the administration and informed of my privilege, racism, bias, and, bizarrely, homophobia.
At another faculty training, a presenter claimed climate change was a species-threatening event. I asked, “If people genuinely believe climate change will literally end every life on the planet, why are we discussing anything else? Why are we discussing racism, given the finality and immediacy of the threat?” I was summoned, extensively castigated, and told I needed “sensitivity training.”
