He Says Your Academic Evidence Is ‘Laundered’

If you believe oppression is real, Peter Boghossian doesn’t think your academic work is real

The Jewish Institute of Liberal Values is David Bernstein’s media brand, founded May 2021 as a nonprofit. Bernstein’s position is that there is something called Critical Social Justice, aka “CSJ ideology”, the adherents of which perpetrate cancel culture against conservative opinions and make conservative individuals afraid to speak, so he “oppose[s] the imposition of CSJ.” Basically that. This is a right-wing position patterned after Chris Rufo’s media assault on what Rufo misnomers Critical Race Theory and Gender Ideology. That’s the ballpark area. There’s nothing “liberal” about this position, despite the organization’s name.

David Bernstein had a 1-hour conversation with atheist Peter Boghossian on September 24, 2021. The video is posted to the Jewish Institute of Liberal Values. I’m not giving the link here, as I attempt to dampen the algorithms’ excitement over it, but it’s easily findable online.

Boghossian Worries About People Who Discuss Race

In this interview, Boghossian complains about the belief that racism is baked into systems. (I’d call it an observation, but never mind.) This belief, he…