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Children’s literature professor fired by Texas university over ‘gender’ content (www.theguardian.com)
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“I’m not sure this is legal to be teaching,” the student says. “According to our president, there’s only two genders and he said he would be freezing agencies’ funding programs that promote gender ideology. And this also very much goes against, not only myself but a lot of people’s religious beliefs.”

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“It is unacceptable for A&M system faculty to push a political agenda,” Glenn Hegar, the school’s chancellor, said in a statement. “Early investigations appear to indicate this course failed to comply with clear instructions to align course descriptions with course materials.”

Texas A&M passed an audit earlier this year to ensure that the school complies with a new state law banning DEI in public universities, according to the Battalion, the student newspaper.

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 hours ago

“It is unacceptable for A&M system faculty to push a political agenda,” Glenn Hegar, the school’s chancellor, said in a statement. “Early investigations appear to indicate this course failed to comply with clear instructions to align course descriptions with course materials.”

But the status quo is a political agenda!

[–] ynthrepic@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Feel the freedom!

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"I'm not sure this is legal to be teaching" is a frightening statement about anything that isn't a direct threat to public safety.

This kid did his part as part of the Hitler Youth, Young Pioneers, Communist Youth League, etc. All totalitarian regimes have an equivalent.

Also, "According to our president, there's only two genders," is an argument only a real dumbass would make.

In summary, everyone involved except the teacher should be publicly eviscerated.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This kid did his part as part of the Hitler Youth, Young Pioneers, Communist Youth League, etc. All totalitarian regimes have an equivalent.

...

everyone involved except the teacher should be publicly eviscerated.

This is so confused. You hate radical youth movements but you love eviscerating people with contrary ideological beliefs?

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

It's called exaggeration for comedic effect, my guy.

And who the hell doesn't hate totalitarian youth movements organized by the state to inform on thought crime?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago

And who the hell doesn’t hate totalitarian youth movements

Idk. How many people are in the Boy Scouts right now?

[–] Hackworth@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Guess they're not worried about political agendas in how we teach, say, economics.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

There's a great quip by Richard Wolff, who can't help notice that we have very distinct colleges for Business and Economics. And there's a notable gap in what they teach.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 43 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine being SUCH a fucking moron that you think you take your orders from any President, let alone a skidmark like Taco.

Also imagine being such a snowflake that you think because of YOUR lifestyle choices, everyone else has to walk on eggshells around you and your precious little book club.

The intention of a liberal education - in every meaning of that term - completely escapes conservative dumbasses.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine being SUCH a fucking moron that you think you take your orders from any President

They're taking orders from Greg Abbott. And he's out here doing the will of his donor class (which is increasingly billionaire ultra-orthodox Opus Dei freaks).

Also imagine being such a snowflake

I mean, its a cute rhetorical framing. But the difference between a snowflake and a fascist is pretty nakedly apparent in their respective behaviors. This woman didn't just walk in, have a cry, and then leave. She was the tip of the spear in a political campaign to target and remove the leadership of a university college.

The intention of a liberal education - in every meaning of that term - completely escapes conservative dumbasses.

The intent is to expose individuals in the state to philosophies and histories to which they would be otherwise unaware. And to integrate the population across disparate languages, cultures, and beliefs.

Conservatives get that. They just don't like it.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Conservatives get that. They just don’t like it.

I think the elitists don't like it, for the underclass.

The bottom tier seem to think that school is bad as a general rule, but if you have to go, you should be taught out of "the" Bible for anything that's not part of what is meant as a trade school curriculum. Or that it should be 100% trade school and nothing else, since getting a job is the only reason to go to university, in their minds.

The elitists probably would accept a truly liberal education for themselves and their children - they just don't want most Americans to have broader minds, because those might be a bit too unruly to manage...

[–] Frenchys_prospecting@aussie.zone 3 points 17 hours ago

What they truly don't get is if the playing field was more even ie; livable wages, 4 day work week, cost of living coming down and universal health and education and taking money out of politics then most of us couldn't care how wealthy these individuals become.

Live and let live and it will all balance out but it's their greed. Greed truly is our evolutionary dead end

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

The bottom tier seem to think that school is bad as a general rule

They think they're rooting out all the Secret Marxists that they've been told are littering academia, certainly. But A&M is about as well-regarded among Christian Conservatives in Texas as any state school.

The elitists probably would accept a truly liberal education for themselves and their children

I don't think anyone in Greg Abbott's inner circle wants their children to know about the sociology of the LGBTQ community, except as some kind of alien satanic threat to be exterminated.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

To clarify when I talk about a "liberal education" I mean that in the broadest sense possible, not necessarily about identity politics, although it'd be fine if that were a component of a larger picture.

I mean someone coming out being able to spot logical fallacies, have a real media literacy and capable of being an autodidact.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I don’t think anyone in Greg Abbott’s inner circle wants their children to know about the sociology of the LGBTQ community, except as some kind of alien satanic threat to be exterminated.

I would buy that some true believers might feel that way, but I think most elitists (not sure Abbott is in that upper echelon and I don't know how much xtianist horseshit he personally believes.) would assume it's okay for themselves to have a broader view (if only to reject it), but they don't want the peasants to get any uppity notions...

So, for instance, you see Harvard grads like Ted Cruz, Romney, Cotton, DeSantis...W went to Yale, and so on.

I view it the same way the business class view something like WSJ - they need to see the unvarnished truth about things to really be captains of industry. Hiding things because they are politically incorrect is not going to be helpful for them.

That's the way today's elites mostly view education - they probably want a return to where it was only the aristocrats that had any (useful, meaning liberal, in every sense of that word) education, and sure, the peasants can get "educated" in a trade so they are useful to the moneyed elite as slave wages, but have no notions of changing anything about their station in life...if they can expunge any and all liberal (again, not necessarily politically liberal) things from universities, that'd be exactly what they want.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

It's easier to fear people you know nothing about. Ignorance fuels the engine of fascism.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

As someone whose religious beliefs are pro trans I notice how that's never seen as as much of an argument as the inverse

[–] Frenchys_prospecting@aussie.zone 8 points 18 hours ago

My religious beliefs strictly allow for gay marriage, trans rights, women's rights and children's rights to health, education and to enjoy their childhood.

I want more representation for my religion.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

The fundamental problem with both your religious beliefs and your trans views is that they are not held by a large enough population of billionaires.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 26 points 23 hours ago

All children's literature involves gender, except MAYBE books about inanimate objects

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Literally if you're paying tuition there: stop. Transfer as much credit as you can away.

When all this is said and done, no one will respect the degrees from the institutions which capitulated.

The hardships of transferring credits will not outweigh the hardships of a degree from a clown college. Sorry for the disrespect to clowns.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

When all this is said and done, no one will respect the degrees from the institutions which capitulated.

Look at the schools that produce the current SCOTUS majority and say that again with a straight face.

[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I thought Harvard told DJT to fuck off. Did Yale acquiesce? I'm sure ND will, given their religious background.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

The funniest thing would be for the pope to tell ND not to

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I thought Harvard told DJT to fuck off.

If they did, alumni John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch didn't get the memo.

Did Yale acquiesce?

Alito, Kavanaugh, and Thomas certainly did.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

That's a weird way to spell no.

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 9 points 22 hours ago

unacceptable for A&M system faculty to push a political agenda

When there are no progressives left, there will only be regressive politics. They are pushing gender politics, just not the kind that IMO most Murcans would agree with.