Universities are turning into ideology mills – spiked
There s just something disconcerting about the threat of being hauled in because you don t have the right answers to questions. It s like Tolkien s Lidless Eye it s always watching you, it s always there. It puts pressure on you to conform to the moral orthodoxy.
spiked: What impact did this have on you?
Boghossian: I don t want to make out that I m some kind of a victim. If I had stopped asking questions, if I had just bowed my head and put my pronouns in my bio, everything would have been fine. But I made a conscious, deliberate choice not to do that. I m not saying I brought it on myself, but I don t want people to read this and think that even I have bought the victim mentality.
It’s not like this at my small and formerly cute law school, but I’m informed it’s just a matter of time — but I don’t buy it, I suppose because I can’t imagine it. However, my imagination has proven wrong in the past. I am aware that this is what people always say: I didn’t imagine things would get this bad.