We Absolutely Must Defund the "Universities"

A trans professor -- we're already off to a great start -- failed a student for disagreeing with him that trans women are women (snap!)

A freshman at the University of Oklahoma says she was punished in the classroom not for poor writing or missed instructions, but for quoting Scripture -- and now the school is scrambling to contain the fallout.

On Sunday, officials in Norman confirmed they had placed a graduate instructor on administrative leave after 19-year-old Samantha Fulnecky filed a complaint alleging she was failed on an essay because she cited the Bible to defend traditional gender roles. The instructor, identified in university records as Mel Curth -- a biological male who identifies as a woman -- gave her zero out of 25 points on a psychology assignment that asked students to respond to an article about how society perceives gender.

Fulnecky told The Oklahoman that she argued gender isn't a social invention at all, but part of God's design. She quoted Genesis directly: "God says that it is not good for man to be alone, so He created a helper for man (which is a woman)." She even went deeper into the Hebrew, explaining that ezer kenegdo doesn't mean a subordinate assistant but "helper equal to," a description the Bible also uses for God Himself. In her view, rejecting the concept of gender erases moral truth: "Eliminating gender in our society would be detrimental, as it pulls us farther from God's original plan for humans."

Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive." Fulnecky pushed back, noting the prompt never required empirical sourcing and that university policy explicitly protects religious expression. "To be what I think is clearly discriminated against for my beliefs and using freedom of speech, and especially for my religious beliefs, I think that's just absurd," she told the paper.

The university appeared to sense the legal danger immediately. In a Sunday post on X, OU said it "takes seriously concerns involving First Amendment rights, certainly including religious freedoms," and stressed that once Fulnecky complained, the school "acted swiftly to address the matter." Officials said she was contacted the same day they received her letter and that a formal grade-appeal process "resulted in steps to ensure no academic harm to the student." The school also confirmed that its discrimination review process -- the one specifically designed for cases involving alleged violations of religious liberty -- "has been activated."

Most notably, OU announced that Curth had been pulled from the classroom pending the outcome of the investigation and replaced by a full-time professor to "ensure fairness."

90% of college dummies believe that "words can be violence."

Which then leads to the conclusion favored by Marxists: And you can use actual violence to stop "word violence."

Nine out of ten undergraduate students think that "words can be violence" at least "somewhat," according to a new Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression survey.

The poll also showed that ideological gaps between left-leaning and right-leaning students are widening.

When respondents were asked how much the statement "words can be violence" describes their thoughts, 47 percent answered with "completely" or "mostly." Twenty-eight percent said it describes their thoughts "somewhat," and 15 percent said "slightly."

Additionally, around 59 percent of students said "silence is violence" describes their views at least "somewhat," though only 28 percent said it describes their thoughts "completely" or "mostly."

"When people start thinking that words can be violence, violence becomes an acceptable response to words," FIRE Chief Research Advisor Sean Stevens said in a news release following the poll.

"Even after the murder of Charlie Kirk at a speaking event, college students think that someone's words can be a threat. This is antithetical to a free and open society, where words are the best alternative to political violence," Stevens said.

The poll also showed that moderate and conservative students have grown less supportive of disruptive or violent tactics to stop campus speakers, while liberal students' support for those tactics has stayed the same or risen slightly compared to the spring.

At the same time, moderate and conservative students have become more open to allowing controversial speakers, while liberal students have maintained or increased their opposition to those speakers.

Not coincidentally, Americans now understand that paying for a four year degree in Transgender Studies -- and all colleges now teach is Transgender Studies of various flavors, like Science Transgender Studies, Law Transgender Studies, Math Transgender Studies, etc. -- is an "expensive scam."

More Americans are wising up to the fact that higher education has become a raw deal for all too many young people.

A new NBC News poll finds that a full 63% of voters believe a four-year college degree now isn't worth it, since many students graduate with "a large amount of debt" but no "specific job skills."

That's up markedly from 2013, when a majority took the opposite view, as 53% called a degree "worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime."

That was the case for generations of Americans, who saw college as a key step to higher-paying jobs and a better life: "Upwardly mobile" was almost entirely synonymous with "college-educated."

But over the last few decades, the dynamic has shifted: Far too many college degrees guarantee nothing ... except onerous debt.

Tuition costs have skyrocketed, doubling over the last 20 years (a redoubling from two decades earlier), as universities jacked up prices to match increased "help" such as federal aid and ever-larger government-facilitated student loans.

But in return for 70 grand or more a year, students today too often don't get prepared for a lucrative or even stable career.

Countless colleges have transformed into woke indoctrination factories that churn out grads with liberal arts degrees and zero specialized skills.

A report last year found that two-thirds of colleges require DEI-related courses to graduate, offering classes like "Understanding Diversity in a Pluralistic Society" and "Abolition of Whiteness."

Why take on huge debt to be pummeled nonstop with identity politics?

Meanwhile, grade inflation and faculties increasingly dominated by leftist ideologues reduce the return even on "real" classes.

Plus, a rapidly changing economy is making white-collar jobs an increasingly unsafe bet.

Prospective students once could safely bet that a hard science or math degree was a sure winner, but the rise of AI is already wiping out options for recent grads in countless sectors, including tech.

Americans have noticed: College enrollment has plummeted these last few years, while numbers of Gen Zers are eyeing high-paying, high-demand careers as welders, plumbers and electricians.

Trade school was once stigmatized as a less-appealing option than the hallowed halls of the Ivy League, but a less expensive, more focused education that teaches a highly valuable skill now often seems the far wiser choice.

This is the "science" that we are now paying universities to produce.

The word "stoma" means an opening in the body, particularly in the digestive tract. I think They/Them means the anus, because the "pride" this pyrsyn wants to discuss is the pride in They/Them's queer poop.

No, that's not a joke, that's what the paper is about.

The retard wrote a paper about how They/Them has "crip guts" and can't shit straight and all the world needs to know about that and that will upend how we practice colonialist Western science.

Colin Wright @SwipeWright

BREAKING: @Nature has just published one of the most insane papers imaginable. In woke studies, "feminist queer crip theory" leads the pack in terms of derangement.

But Nature has now embraced it, publishing an autoethnographic paper about "crip guts," "queer stoma pride," the "intergenerational trauma" inflicted upon the author's guts by "British colonialism in Ireland," and how crip guts bestow people with "situated ways of knowing" that undermines "Western biomedical models of knowledge production."

A real quote from the paper:

"I was processing some memories around my gut condition and became overwhelmed with sadness and grief. It felt ridiculous explaining to the (English) therapist what had come up because the only way I could describe it was famine grief. The Irish Famine of the 1800s is of course before my time, but in that therapy session I felt overwhelmed with a grief that felt larger than my own. I made sense of this feeling through the framework of intergenerational trauma and described it as feeling the pain of the famine lingering in my guts."

The author calls for "queer stoma pride," which celebrates "the leakiness of bodies which disrupt boundaries" and "requires more collective and relational modes of knowledge production which value embodied experiential knowledge, holistic healing, and reject the idea that normality is a neutral desirable location." It further "focuses on imaginings of alternative, more expansive bodily futures which foreground agency and a joyous plurality of bodies beyond category, refusing the idea that non-normative bodies are a site of unwantedness."

She hopes that the concept of "crip guts" will "disrupt epistemic injustice and challenge Western biomedical models of knowledge production," though she gives no concrete instructions about how that looks in practice.

Ultimately, she says "queer stoma pride" is "about talking about poop at conferences and in journal articles," and "revelling in not being normal, being unexpected or disruptive, and rejecting colonial, queerphobic and ableist discourses around returning to normal, passing as normal, and aiming for normal, as if normal was ever a good thing."

BTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off.

Best time of the week!!!!

posted by Ace at 02:30 PM

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