De Vlaamse filosoof Maarten Boudry (42) nam het in debatten over het bestaan van God op tegen Nederlandse christenen. Hij is atheïst, maar laat voor zich bidden door een Texaanse pastor. En een hie…

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Confessions of a Disillusioned Academic

De Vlaamse filosoof Maarten Boudry (42) nam het in debatten over het bestaan van God op tegen Nederlandse christenen. Hij is atheïst, maar laat voor zich bidden door een Texaanse pastor. En een hiernamaals, dat lijkt hem wel wat. ‘Ik zou er niet rouwig om zijn als blijkt dat ik ongelijk heb.’

Maarten Boudry is wetenschapsfilosoof. Hij stelt dat de academische wereld zich beter eens zou bezinnen over haar eigen diepgewortelde en institutionele racisme.

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After 7 October, Maarten Boudry saw decolonisation for what it really is: a rigid, almost Manichaean ideology that splits the world into evil colonisers and innocent victims, with no room in between. On this view, one side is irredeemable and deserves whatever comes. The other is absolved of everything. Any atrocity it commits is reframed as an understandable response to past injustice. And the more extreme the violence, the greater the wrongs it's assumed to answer. Full narration on the Quillette channel. Link in bio. https://quillette.com/2026/04/20/what-did-you-think-decolonisation-meant-october-7-academia/ . . . #Quillette #MaartenBoudry #Decolonisation #Antisemitism #Academia #Philosophy #October7 #FreeSpeech

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On 7 October, writer Najma Sharif posted seven mocking words that racked up tens of thousands of likes: what did people think decolonisation meant, if not this? Maarten Boudry was exactly who she was mocking. The academic who assumed decolonisation was just papers, essays, and well-meaning proposals to diversify the curriculum. That day he learned how wrong he had been. Full narration on the Quillette channel. Link in bio. . . . #Quillette #MaartenBoudry #Decolonisation #Antisemitism #Academia #Philosophy #October7 #FreeSpeech #Universities

Maarten Boudry isn't Jewish and had no personal connection to Israel. At first he barely followed the news, filing 7 October away with every other jihadist attack he assumed the West had finally learned to recognise. He was certain of one thing: that no colleague or friend could ever condone the slaughter of young people at a music festival. Within hours, he was proved wrong. Not from the usual quarters, but from left-wing academics at prestigious universities, reaching for the language of decolonisation to celebrate what had just happened. That was the moment his complacency broke. . . . #MaartenBoudry #Decolonisation #Antisemitism #Academia #Universities #Philosophy #Israel #October7 #FreeSpeech

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Jews and Muslim dissidents have real reasons to be afraid. The rest of us mostly have friends and careers to lose.

Jews and Muslim dissidents have real reasons to be afraid. The rest of us mostly have friends and careers to lose.

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