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Oklahoma university instructor on leave after failing Bible-based essay on gender (apnews.com)

submitted 6 months ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/usa@midwest.social

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An instructor at the University of Oklahoma has been placed on leave after a student complained that she received a failing grade on a paper that cited the Bible to assert that the “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”

Samantha Fulnecky, 20, filed a complaint with the administration, the latest flashpoint in the ongoing debate over academic freedom on college campuses amid President Donald Trump’s push to end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and restrict how campuses discuss issues of race, gender and sexuality.

“OU remains firmly committed to fairness, respect and protecting every student’s right to express sincerely held religious beliefs,” the university wrote in an email on Wednesday.

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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

She's a shitty troll, backed by a bunch of bigoted religious cunts

But the university should have supported the lecturer

They're fucking gutless

OK is a backwards state though, so it's unsurprising that they're pandering to the religious arseholes

[–] Today@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I went to OU. I thought the education there was very good and it had a lot of well-respected programs for a school of it's size. While it always leaned conservative, i don't remember encountering a lot of hateful bible bangers. There was a strong fine arts program, a mental health/suicide hotline, gay lesbian alliance, etc. This situation makes me really sad.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Instructor is on leave with pay, but yeah it looks terrible.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

“Please note that I am not deducting points because you have certain beliefs,” the instructor wrote in feedback obtained by The Oklahoman. Instead, the instructor said the paper did “not answer the questions for the assignment.”

The paper “contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive” the criticism went on.

Open and shut. This student deserves the failing grade.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Yea but she is a white christian woman in the south so this is a miscarriage of justice on the scale of George Floyd.