Boghossian response

What do you think about Boghossian's arguments? How does it affect your ideas about next year? Feel free to see this as a broad assignment - write/explain/argue about whatever the article made you think about.

I think that Boghossian makes a valid point in his resignation letter. He was an ethics professor but due to the high level of sensitivity and the facts that some topics are trigger warnings for less that 0.001% of the worlds population his ability to do his job was compromised. He wasn’t allowed to talk about certain issues and couldn’t ask certain questions which were supposed to challenge the students into thinking more critically about the issues in todays society.

He states all of his credentials in the first paragraph to make him seem more plausible. Although this becomes laughable when he mentions that he is only an “assistant professor” and not an actual one. He hereby seems less significant and therefore the issues discussed also hold less importance to the audience.

I agree with his point of view on the matter of cancel culture and how it is restricting in many ways. There is this hypersensitivity nowadays where people even get cancelled for things they said 7 years ago or did when they were not even of age. It’s very toxic and it’s honestly very tiring to keep up with the things that are considered correct and wrong. Now being racist or homophobic or sexist is absolutely not ok but there are some things that people get cancelled for that absolutely blow my mind.

I don’t know what kind of comments Boghossian made in his classes that made his students upset, but I highly doubt that the students wouldn’t have spoken up if it wasn’t something worth reporting.