it doesn't freak you out yet, I promise you, it should and it will if it gets worse.

you want to understand it elsewhere in the anglosphere, look up video nasties. Censorship, even of the worst kinds of art, is prudish horseshit, and it gives ammo to people that will absolutely wreck your most benign art. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social has been talking about this a lot wrt KOSA, and if

And the second you give any censorship ammo to the right, they will use it on bullshit crusades to clear queer people and anyone who isn't saltine cracker ass white out of the visible part of the culture. If you really want an understanding of US censorship culture, read about the comics code. If..

people are extremely ready to put everyone but the sex offenders on the sex offender registry. we know who the predators are and some people will, consciously or unconsciously, project that onto anyone else instead, to create an external villain rather than one granted power in their communities.

Yea. I mean there’s a reason this is a national story and not just a squabble in the deans office

like, even if you disagree with her call! it doesn't really matter if you agree with the grade or think the assignment was not ideal or whatever. it doesn't even matter if you think the paper was a masterpiece!

and again, this attack on trans identity has been withering, brutal, and extended. if you are concerned about free speech, you need to be very concerned about a university firing a trans grad student for trying to do her job!

marginalized people are targeted for censorship *regardless of their opinions* because the main thing people want to prevent them from saying is simply "I exist."

"viewpoint diversity" is bullshit because *the main danger to free speech is not the silencing of unpopular opinions.* The main danger is the *silencing of unpopular people.*

the idea that the real danger to free speech here is that a Christian wasn't allowed to spew hatred without evidence in a psych class seems like a fundamental confusion endemic to a lot of 1st amendment discussions.

one of the single most controversial and dangerous opinions you can have right now is "trans people exist and I am one of them."

there is a years long moral panic ongoing to force LGBT ppl, and esp trans ppl, out of public life. their books are banned; they are being targeted in secondary and higher ed; their healthcare is being slashed; their passports are being revoked.

It's unsourced and self contracting. In the first screenshot she says she thinks "teasing" (bullying) to enforce gender stereotypes is fine, then spends most of the paper claiming it isn't necessary to force them, then tries to say she doesn't think it's right to.

It's absolute blather.

But no, white Christian privilege seems to trump (pun intended) basic everything and we're all going to pay for decades to come if we don't short-circuit this theocracy asap

And the fact that OU has been cowed into suspending a professor who had the barest of academic standards is TERRIFYING because the theocracy is billowing at an increasingly rapid rate and our collective standards are all at risk.

The future of our leadership for the next generations are at risk.