Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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higher education in the USA has largely been a racket for at least two decades now.
insane tuition, predatory and un-banckruptcy-able student loans, broken promises of tuition forgiveness, textbooks and coursework license fees being a racket of their own, utter uselessness of degrees to get jobs, utter uselessness of a lot of people with degrees, nepotism in admissions, fascist attacks on students' free speech, and so on
The predator class learned many lessons during the Vietnam war, one of which was to make sure students never again had the financial security to engage in mass protests. That and buying up the media to more directly manufacture consent, and keeping all other working people too desperate to organize. All going according to plan.
This applies to every law and regulation that benefits the majority, and is specifically why the oligarchy coopted libertarianism in the 1970's; to promote environmental destruction, and the mass exploitation of the working class, under the guise of "freedom" (eg deregulation).
Prior to the massive sustained investment from nepo baby sociopaths, like the Koch bros, libertarianism was considered a leftist, progressive, ideology; just as anti too-big-to-fail corporate-monopoly as it was anti-government. Hippies were far more libertarian-socialist than they were authoritarian-communist.
"Students were asked to write a 650-word response to an academic study that examined whether conformity with gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students."
"Fulnecky wrote that she was frustrated by the premise of the article because she doesn’t believe that there are more than two genders based on her understanding of the Bible, according to a copy of her essay"
That person clearly just didn't understand the task they were given. It doesn't matter whether you believe there are more than two genders. Clearly there are other people that do and thus do not adhere to the gender norms and that can have an effect on their popularity or whether or not they get bullied. So...that person was just unable to comprehend that there might be people out there that see the world with different eyes...heck, that person even got offended by that fact. That is so stupid!
In academia you are (and should be!) constantly confronted with different ideas and logic and arguments should become your tools to deal with them. That person could have even used a Christian point of view to try and explain the results of that study (whatever that was).
Be fair at least to the professor who said no.
Then the cowardly OU admin threw the professor under the bus.
The professor, yes. The administration, however, sets policy.
And the student body who protested in defense of the professor.
“Professors like this are the very reason conservatives can’t voice their beliefs in the classroom,” the group posted.
The virtue signaling is on point. It's interesting that the assignment wasn't to share her beliefs, but to assess the student's ability to absorb and understand the scientific premise of the paper. You can hold your beliefs and still do that, but she chose to ignore it, failed the assignment, and then posted it to the media to call down the wrath of Charlie Kirk's ghost.
This truly is the dumbest timeline, but then again, this was in Oklahoma.
and it's psychology. What they call "science".
Samantha Fulnecky is a bag of trash and her last name really invites jokes about Charlie Kirk's ending.
I wonder if there will be a correlation to number of 529s being opened going down.
No idea what a 529 is.
Same here.
Had to DDG. This appears to be a type of college savings account. I never used one.
^This. College saving account that allows for parents to begin from the time the child is born to begin investing in stock market for tax free withdrawn towards educational purposes. Anything helps to get out of the crippling costs of education in this country...