“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.
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.
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).
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 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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
It’s easier to fear people you know nothing about. Ignorance fuels the engine of fascism.