Foe to friend 3

 (cont'd from yesterday's post)

Where is Peter Boghossian going to carry on his university teaching career? He wants to teach where "woke" ideology doesn't suppress and silence all other belief systems. Where would that be? 

He knows that the right to speak freely and to think freely is essential to a truth-seeking people, and that's what universities ought to be. It's what they always were until recently. That right was recognized by the American founders and written into the foundation of our country, the constitution.

Suppression of the words and thoughts of other people is the tool of tyranny. Suppression rests on the attitude that "I won't listen to any evidence or opinion because I'm right and everyone else is wrong." It's the opposite of being open-minded, of being open to correction, of learning. It doesn't respect others. It is arrogant.

Communist and dictator Josef Stalin is believed to have said:

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."

(cont'd tomorrow)