It's a bit alarming. A graduate student TA is presenting a newsworthy, current debate in a class appropriate for that topic. The discussion centers around the use of pronouns, and she uses a video by a current professor at the University of Toronto, who has published on the topic and is an outspoken and well-known voice about the issue, whose views were presented publicly before Parliament, and she presented the issue in a neutral fashion. That, according to these meathead SJWs who are in the position of power within the institution to hear and investigate anonymous and undisclosed charges pursuant to which they will take action against professors they deem to breach vague and politically charged rules, is "the problem" and is like presenting a speech by Hitler without moralizing against it.Strontium Dog wrote:Haha, as soon as I saw this one Forty Two, I knew you'd be all over it.
FWIW, I completely agree with your disgust.
I take issue with the comparison there -- I think there is no problem with neutrally presenting speeches by Adolph Hitler. It's done all the time. He has a point of view. If I were taking a course involving Nazism, and we were reading Mein Kampf and the professor started wasting time telling me what I was supposed to think and feel about the verbiage used, I'd be pretty pissed off. And, that's what these numbskulls doing the interview are saying - you can present certain views to the class, but you had better tell everyone how horrible and immoral those views are, or it's hate speech.
I say to them: Go. Fuck. Your. Selves.
My one regret is that they picked on this poor lady who didn't have a stomach for a fight with them. Being accused of being transphobic and all that nonsense was too much for her, and she was sobbing on and off throughout the audio. She was greatly disturbed and hurt by their treatment of her. Of course, they don't care about her offense or feelings. She neutrally presented an issue of pronoun usage, and that equals Hitler. Calling her a transphobe and comparing to someone who spreads Nazi propaganda, that's just fine with them. They're punching up, or so they think.