The loonery that is going on in the United States is really getting out of hand. This article does contain some good news as a Professor of Education has managed to keep her job despite stating the ‘heretical’ fact that human beings are sexually dimorphic species.
Let that one sink in a bit as you contemplate your stance on ‘woke politics’. Especially if you happen to believe that the woke agenda is harmless or an overblown threat to society as you know it.
“University of Southern Maine officials announced Monday they would not replace a professor who allegedly told her class that only two biological sexes exist, despite demands for her removal from the majority of her class, Bangor Daily News reported Monday.
Education professor Christy Hammer and a single student allegedly said “they believed only male and female biological sexes exist” during a September 7 required class in the university’s Portland campus’ Extended Teacher Education Program for public teacher certification, according to the news outlet.”
Yes, this actual occurrence. You can get in trouble with the faux-progressive set for stating the basic facts of the reality we all share.
“A free-for-all discussion erupted over both social gender and biological sex identifications…the rest of the class maintained both biological sexes and social genders are on a spectrum,” according to the paper. The discussion continued to the next class on September 14, during which “nearly two dozen students walked out in protest,” according to a September 29 article in the Bangor Daily News.”
Pretty much par for the course when dealing with gender ideologues because their arguments are mostly fatuous hyperbolic emotive bafflegab and therefore they can’t debate – instead they activate their inner activist and PROTEST. That is one of the best parts of this ideology – actions are much more important that any sort of grounding in the material reality we all share.
“Following that episode, a “majority of the class” sent a letter to the Department of Education and Human Development “asking for a restorative justice meeting with Hammer,” according to the October 3 article.
During the meeting, the student who had maintained the two-sex distinction repeatedly apologized. But Hammer stayed firm, “saying non-binary biological sex designations are merely variations on male and female,” according to the September 29 article.
Students declared Hammer’s remarks “inaccurate and transphobic,” according to the news outlet.”
With no arguments moored in reality, the only option is to silence the heretic, in this case an Education Prof for her crime of stating biological fact. Thought crime is officially a thing, especially in Universities apparently.
Take a second and reflect on this if you are moored to reality and a free thinker you will eventually be in this situation. The faux-progressive mob will call for your excommunication – what will you do? To maintain your integrity, the very minimum you can do is not replicate the lie.
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
“We don’t want to go back to the classroom with Christy Hammer,” student Michael Lombardi told the paper.
The school responded this week by declaring that it will not replace Hammer, but will make an “alternative, identical class available,” according to the Oct. 3 story.
“We have developed an alternative plan for this class and will be opening a new section of this course for those students who would like to move,” university spokesperson Gina Marie Guadagnino told the Bangor Daily News. “The original section taught by professor Hammer will continue for any student who wishes to remain in that class.”
Can you imagine this? Making a whole new section with a professor that won’t challenge the beliefs of students? What are Universities for if not for challenging ones beliefs? What kind of funhouse reality are we in right now? Student feelings are not more important the facts of the matter, especially when it comes to education. Do we really want ideologues who crumble and cry and then burn the heretic at the first sign of opposition teaching our children?
This is just one example of the faux-progressive movement tearing at the fabric of our society. Actual progressive people and those who care about the next generation have duty to speak out against this pernicious ideology.
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October 10, 2022 at 7:20 am
tildeb
When reality and belief are in conflict, choosing belief labels the person as an ideologue. And so whatever this person thinks simply doesn’t matter and deserves no respect because respecting reality is the necessary foundation for reason based on evidence. Without that shared respect for reality, no evidence from the real world matters. At all. This is the definition of a faith-based opinion that is immune from rational discourse. So no one should respect any opinion of any ideologue that first rejects reason and evidence in place of reality-denying belief. Doing so – sitting down and talking with an ideologue as if rational – makes one an apologist and an ally for irrationality.
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October 10, 2022 at 9:47 am
Cynthia Wolff
American college is now just another consumer commodity (like the “value” of EVERYTHING ELSE here, the U.S., is measured according-to); where: it’s seen as a rubber-stamped self-gentrification tool (even though a lot of current graduates are carrying around, I think?, an average of $38,000 of student loan debt well into “early middle age”).
Seeing the way U.S. society is going full of these eggheads (Goddess save us all from them!): I would feel perfectly confident stating, at this point, that my *1983* HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA probably has more intellectual “weight” than what the typical, U.S., four-year university prepares a twentysomething to function like as an adult now (aside from, of course!, anyone that had gone to Medical or STEM training in the ’90s — before the insanity settled in).
I never had a brand-new BMW when I was 17 (had a 1975 VW Rabbit on its last legs) and, I’ve held jobs from: once having-been a part time aerobics instructor (don’t laugh, lol!); to: a 20-year sales associate position at a Northeast location of a major U.S. dept. store (which, eventually, went bankrupt after the 2008 financial meltdown). Between what I feel my PARENTS taught me and my own off-kilter/”Retro Hippie craziness”: I’ve lived frugally for most of my life and have realized it’s all I need. However, in “my day”: we knew already how to write in cursive script by 10 and, often had benefitted from that last taskmaster generation of female role-model teachers influencing education into the ’70s/’80s (whose wisdom, no matter how subtle, you now fully understand plays a major part in your survival mechanism as an adult).
Things back then appeared, at least, heading in the actually just direction before the era of vomit-inducing unicorn tee shirts.
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October 10, 2022 at 12:39 pm
Steve Ruis
Re “We have developed an alternative plan for this class and will be opening a new section of this course for those students who would like to move,” university spokesperson Gina Marie Guadagnino told the Bangor Daily News. “The original section taught by professor Hammer will continue for any student who wishes to remain in that class.”
I wonder how the students who transfer out of Hammer’s class will react when their new teacher says “Only two biological sexes exist?” It is a fact and the 0.018 percent of births classified as intersex are not some new sex, but mixtures of the two. These are university students; they should be able to grasp the difference between sex and gender.
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