 So, I get into work today and what do I see? I get into work today and I see the Portland State University paper is apparently done a hit piece on me. There it is, Professor Bogosian speculates instantaneously intersectionality is the latest cult. Humanity is under attack by neo-Marxist. I don't think I ever use that. The left is censoring free speech in academia, that's certainly true. Professor Bogosian's expose of post-modernism speculates instantaneously as if this is naked oil. Free speech is under attack by neo-Marxist. Impress your colleagues with edgy criticism. The photoshopped piece So, let's see what we have here. The goal in the contemporary bullying style of Trumpist politics is to ridicule others for personal gain. PSU educational collective. PSU pro-educational. These people are... look at that. They're anonymous. We have opted to communicate our concerns through a collective identity rather than individually. Bogosian is not only indicated as less than collegial attitude with his hoaxes, but it's actively targeted faculty at other institutions. Really, where would that be? None of us wish to contend with threats of death and assault from online trolls. I mean it just is utterly incredible to me what the university has become when you have to publish an anonymous hit piece on people. So that's what it is. You can't... they can't defend their ideas. They link me with Trump. They attack me as a person. So this group of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. I don't know if I can't do that right. This group of ten professors, esteemed professors at Portland State University. Ah, shit. Helen, do you have... do you have headphones? Do I have headphones? Yeah. Yeah, why? Can you please put them in because the feedback is killing me. Oh, okay. Hello? Hello. Can you hear me? Yeah. Is that better? Oh my god. It's a billion times better. Okay. So this esteemed group... Collective. This esteemed collective of ten, roughly ten professors wrote a letter, an attack piece to the Portland State University vanguard that made the front page. Well, it's not even just a hit piece. It's a letter addressed to the students of the university where you teach, trying to play the concerned educator, hey students, you need to be worried about this professor in our midst. This is way worse than a hit piece. And then they accuse you of not being collegiate. His invitation of Google engineer James DeMore tells us to tell us why women are incapable of excelling in tech fields was certainly disrespectful of all of his colleagues who identify as women. DeMore proved barely articulate, much less a serious gender scholar. Barely articulate? Are you kidding me? They published, the professors published a statement saying he's barely articulate. He turned up to something, to a university was hidden in a back room. There were threats to beat him to death with a brick for saying that men and women's gender differences have different interests on average. And then he managed to speak actually pretty articulately for somebody who is autistic and incredibly nervous in front of audience, including hostile people who damaged the sound equipment before getting a police escort out. But they are the victims here who are in danger and they're calling him in articulate and misrepresenting what he said. I am so fucking angry right now. Well, listen, I mean, they're making it bigger than that too. A couple paragraphs down these types of fraudulent time wasting anti-intellectual activities are something we are becoming nationally known for under the guise of free speech or academic freedom. When you talk about wasting people time, imagine all the people who read these papers and take them seriously. That's a waste of their time. Talk about wasting somebody's time. They wanted to make a graduate or undergraduate level course in masculinity is based on the Hooters paper. Well, you've just been written up in the Mean Girls burn book. That's what it looks like to me. There's nothing substantial in there. I think that what does this mean for you though? It means that inside PSU there is a pushback and a so what I guess an anti anti Pete thing going on, right? It's an anti you not what I would love to have happen is that some of my colleagues who weren't terrified and who weren't being bullied would write another letter in support of me. But that but they're too terrified. They'd never do that because then they'd be targeted and they could go up before the diversity board. This is this is pretty savage. This part that's highlighted in red is just ridiculous. At the end it says worse yet it jeopardizes the students reputations as their degrees in the process may become devalued. So somehow you're devaluing. They're telling the students of Portland State that your involvement in this project had something to do with devaluing their educations. Chronic and pathological unscolarly behavior inside an institution of higher education brings negative publicity to the institution itself as well as to the honest scholars who work there. This is not about grievance studies degrees being devalued. This is Peter has made every degree at Portland State less valuable by trying to do an audit to raise the quality of scholarship coming out of shit fields. Then they go on make no mistake. We are some of academia's biggest critics. No shit you problematize everything but that's not criticism that's cynicism. You're not really academia's critics. You're trying to turn it into a cult. What do you do to something like this? Well that's yeah I mean it's so wrong on so many levels and it's so cowardly and no one will debate us. No one will have a conversation with us. No one will. I mean so that's the question. So what do you do? Do you ignore it? I was thinking about writing a response back to it but who who am I writing a response to? It's probably the Grand Wizard of the Diversity Board. This is an inquisitional maneuvers what this is. This is inquisitorial. There's no way around it. They're targeting an individual from behind an anonymous collective trying to appeal to a bunch of crap that doesn't even make sense. They didn't even do the slightest amount of their homework. Everything I think in this article is actually wrong. They got our names wrong. They misrepresented D'Amore. They said we didn't engage repeatedly say we didn't engage and there's all this proof we didn't engage. That's the exact opposite of what we did. We engaged. They call us a clown car of hoax riders that doesn't bother engaging with that. Yeah who probably outpublished a whole lot of them. That's probably why they wrote it. We we outpublished their entire careers in ten months. And this is just the attitude that's coming up over and over again. I've had an argument with a couple of academics today quite a few over the last few days and it is this incessant childishness and whining. I mean we had someone yesterday didn't we wrote a hit piece essentially on all of us which was completely dishonest and attacked our characters and then two hours later he's whining that Jim is is going through the article and pointing out the problems with it. My mother is dying. Yeah I'm very very sorry about that. We're not psychic. We can't know that and if you're going to put this out there you have to expect people to respond. It's just this constant unreasonable say unreasonable shit then claim to be the victim and whine. It's but this piece in the Portland Vanguard is really a bit disturbing because it's not just a hit piece written in some social justice thing. It's dear Portland State students by professors at Portland State University warning them about Peter who teaches at Portland State University in their student newspaper. They put it on the front page. They've since threatened. They know that there was criticism of grievance studies so it's just straight in there with all of the buttons pushed at once. Guilt by association. He spoke to this person who we're going to claim is a misogynist. It's we are the victims here. We're under threat. There could be could be online death threats so we have to hide and by the way students get him. Well fuck him. I'll make some I'll make a video out of this. We can take a photo of it. Let's put it up on the web. Yeah exactly. But Peter should Peter do this is it wise for Peter to do this if there is an element of them trying to say trying to get him to do that in order to then say he brought bullying down on them they can then I don't know. I mean they haven't identified themselves but like I don't know. Well yeah I think the the only the only consideration I think what you're trying to hit on there is is Pete will it affect your job if we put this up on the web and I don't care. This has to be answered. It has to be answered. All right let's put it up. So we'll talk about Michael make a video and before the video goes out we'll be very careful in the wording of the tweet. Where we got your back feet as always. Yeah I appreciate it. We'll talk to you later. Take care. Leave it leave it there. 33 minutes Mike that's going to be a fun file to download or to upload. Yeah