<p>Comedian and actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-dont-care-about-my-career-rob-schneider-says-hes-absolutely-willing-to-lose-everything" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rob Schneider</a> made it clear on Wednesday that he was unimpressed with the state of higher education in the United States, referring to universities in general as a &#8220;closed system&#8221; that was guarded by &#8220;thought police.&#8221;</p>
<p>Schneider&#8217;s observation came in response to yet another campus protest — this time at Portland State University — during which radical trans rights activists disrupted and shouted down speakers with whom they disagreed.</p>
<p>&#8220;Student activists at @Portland_State attempted to disrupt our public conversations today,&#8221; philosopher and author Peter Boghossian tweeted. He was on the campus alongside two other speakers for a discussion on whether or not minors were capable of consenting to puberty blockers and cross sex hormone treatments.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am genuinely embarrassed for the activists and disappointed that they prevented students with sincere objections from engaging us,&#8221; he added.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Student activists at <a href="https://twitter.com/Portland_State?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Portland_State</a> <br />attempted to disrupt our public conversations today. I am genuinely embarrassed for the activists and disappointed that they prevented students with sincere objections from engaging us. <a href="https://t.co/QZHxIMiudj">https://t.co/QZHxIMiudj</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) <a href="https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/1653989099349622786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Schneider reacted to Boghossian&#8217;s comments, tweeting, &#8220;<span class="r-18u37iz">@peterboghossian </span>Universities in America no longer promote learning or allow debate. It’s a closed system of thought run by thought police … Authoritarianism dressed us as tolerance.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">. <a href="https://twitter.com/peterboghossian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@peterboghossian</a> Universities in America no longer promote learning or allow debate. It’s a closed system of thought run by thought police…<br />Authoritarianism dressed us as tolerance. <a href="https://t.co/T5V3hgUfLg">https://t.co/T5V3hgUfLg</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Rob Schneider (@RobSchneider) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobSchneider/status/1653991965455962112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Boghossian knows Schneider&#8217;s sentiments all too well — in 2021 he left his post as a professor of philosophy at Portland State University after a decade, saying that his school had &#8220;sacrificed ideas for ideology&#8221; and that the more he had tried to push back against the tide, the more he was personally attacked.</p>
<p>&#8220;I never once believed <em>— </em> nor do I now <em>— </em> that the purpose of instruction was to lead my students to a particular conclusion. Rather, I sought to create the conditions for rigorous thought; to help them gain the tools to hunt and furrow for their own conclusions,&#8221; Boghossian wrote in a scathing <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/my-university-sacrificed-ideas-for" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resignation letter</a>.</p>
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<p>&#8220;But brick by brick, the university has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible. It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a Social Justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>This latest disruption comes on the heels of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stanford-law-school-dean-doubles-down-on-free-speech-diversity-dean-placed-on-leave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several others</a> — including one dangerous protest during which former NCAA swimmer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/did-this-just-say-peaceful-riley-gaines-unloads-on-san-francisco-states-response-to-assault" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines</a> was forced to barricade herself in a locked classroom for her own physical safety.</p>

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