Kulturkampf

[Nintex]

I feel bad for the kids, they have an attention span of 20 seconds and the information they do absorb either comes from Ashleigh there or Andrew Tate.

I read the other day that 25% of Dutch college kids want to kill themselves. 

[benji]

I need some elaboration on G-word, W-word, P-word and D-word

UPDATE:

[Potato]

Imagine thinking "cunt" is only an offensive term for women...

Can you out yourself as a fucking dirty yank any quicker?

I'm also interested in the derogatory term for people of Greek descent that begins with the letter E. I can't work it out. Obviously the terms used in Australia are different.

[HaughtyFrank]

Grok now giving some detail. Is number 15 “frog”??

[Uncle]

I have the unfortunate interest in academic work relating to black studies and it's wild how a certain group of people keeps chipping away at basic standards in order to advance themselves. Following in a long tradition of "I made it up" sourcing, which you can trace back to bell hooks. When you look at this stuff you really start to understand why (straight) black men have been pushed out of academia, and why "black studies" have largely been replaced by black intersectional feminist theory. Even critical race theory is often sidelined by these people. 

And these are the people who are forming group think that we all end up being exposed to via social media, or at school, or at work. Going all the way down to children's education. And then you wonder why black (and white) boys are struggling in schools, and why they aren't going to college much as they once did. There's a clear agenda at place here.

[Uncle]

you can tell from ashleigh's face that she just got done saying or is preparing to say DAS RIGHT!!

[Polident]

[benji]

Oliver's gaslighting you. Those aren't real "Palestine supporters" or "leftists" at all. Not that these "rapes" are anything but a Zionist myth anyway. And if there were rapes, well, settler colonialists fuck around and find out. How do you expect the oppressed to respond when you try to genocide them? That's why you need to drive oppressors off the planet by any means necessary.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Going to watch Schindler's List in his honor.

[HaughtyFrank]

Modern progressives are just completely unequipped to handle two minorities fighting each other. All principles just go straight out the window 

Going to watch Schindler's List in his honor.

Waiting for the "I always thought he was suspicious after Schindler's list" tweet

[Besticus Maximus]

The cunt is misogynist thing is a cunt's trick to avoid being called a cunt on account of being a cunt

[Uncle]

Going to watch Schindler's List in his honor.

[Nintex]

You may think Schindlers list is about the Holocaust but the real theme is entrepeneurship

[Nintex]

[HaughtyFrank]

[D3RANG3D]

[Nintex]

Actual Shaman for Trump

[benji]

So Trump should target DSA chapters to get all the stuff they've horded and lists of their members?

[Nintex]

How DSA members should prepare for Trump 25

Clean your automobile, plan a nice vacation with an aeroplane, take your trashy lawyer out to a dinner date, prepare your Steam Wishlists, Amazon Wishlists, OnlyFans Favorites, Crypto Wallets and your Credit Cards. Order a big beautiful cake, a large American flag and lots of Diet coke. And don't forget to buy the Limited Collectors Stripclub Edition of GTAVI

 

[Polident]

DSA and MAGA people both long for Trump years, but even if he comes back, it’s not gonna be the same as 2016 to 2020. Let the nostalgia be nostalgia instead of forcing things to be the way they were.

[benji]

[benji]

[Polident]

Far right types say the same, but are more logically consistent. They explicitly see people like him as a negative consequence of winning WW2. Be it shifty behind the scenes conspiracies or just factually how the civil rights movement had strong Jewish allies. There’s a lot of that. Like how both see Jews controlling the media. The right see it as an ever present force influencing everything from diversity on screen to dictating crime statistics. The left see it as only manifesting whenever palestine is a topic. Both are evil and stupid, but yeah, there’s more consistency to one side’s schizophrenia.

[benji]

In late October, a watchdog group released a scathing report refuting an Oregon State University professor's claims of Native American ancestry, prompting a graduate student to start an online petition calling for their removal in November.

But her issue wasn't just with the professor's ancestral claims.

The Ph.D. student who created the petition alleged OSU professor Qwo-Li Driskill had committed a series of abuses against students at OSU's College of Liberal Arts. Those grievances ranged from heavy workloads to alleged discrimination against students with disabilities and retaliation in the form of negative grades.

According to multiple graduate students, Driskill's behavior was the subject of concern long before a nonprofit raised serious questions about their Indigenous identity. Those collective concerns sparked letters to school leadership and most recently to OSU's president, demanding action.

Driskill, who is transgender, nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, has fired back with complaints against those same students and the university, alleging discrimination.

...

In addition to workload, there were complaints from students with disabilities and those with an illness or injury, saying they weren't afforded accommodations in class, like being able to attend via Zoom — an option Driskill afforded themselves on at least one occasion, Khan said.

Khan said students initially thought these issues could be resolved by talking to Driskill, but the associate professor was dismissive of feedback.

"It really started to feel like we were just not getting through to them with our grievances as students and graduate student employees," she said.

...

Khan said she's not heard back from the office about Driskill's allegations. However, she said she heard rumors from within the department about Driskill accusing some students of transmisogyny and discrimination, which she noted in the graduate student group's letter.

Khan believes those accusations have been used to discredit the cohort of students who've voiced complaints, which she said includes transgender students.

"It's not impossible for us to be bigoted against a trans person, I will admit that," Khan said. "But it seems like a stretch to say all of these trans students are exhibiting transmisogyny in our grievances."

However, Driskill has since filed a larger complaint against OSU, this time with the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries.

Driskill's Oct. 5 complaint alleges a broader culture of "backchannelling and triangulation that created a hostile work environment, particularly toward trans persons," an issue Driskill said they first raised with Bernardin last year.

In the complaint, Driskill alleged instances of school leadership denigrating a department event, and a faculty member making disparaging remarks against a graduate student related to their gender and their history as a victim of sexual violence.

Driskill also said they submitted multiple bias incident reports throughout the spring, including one for a school email they alleged outed transgender and nonbinary students.

Driskill alleged they've been "targeted for retaliatory actions and subjected to multiple and persistent microaggressions as well as macroaggressions," and excluded from work-related positions and department communications because of their disability, gender and racial identity.

Khan and other students, however, said Driskill retaliated against them and first-year graduate students during the current fall term in the form of stricter attendance polices and harsher grading.

...

The watchdog report included letters from various tribal enrollment offices denying Driskill's membership with the Cherokee, Osage and Lenape tribes — tribes to which Driskill claims ties.

The group's news release noted Driskill has acknowledged they are not citizens of any federally recognized tribe but maintains their ancestral claims.

On top of the enrollment office letters, however, the report also included genealogical histories of both sides of Driskill's family.

Following the release of the report, Driskill stopped coming to class, according to Yola Gomez, a first-year Ph.D. student who was taking two courses this term with the associate professor — which Gomez later dropped. Gomez said Driskill sent an email to students announcing they were taking medical leave.

The release of the watchdog report capped off a heartbreaking disillusionment for Gomez.

Gomez, who identifies as trans, multiracial and multiethnic, decided to further their education at OSU specifically to work with Driskill on indigenous and Two-Spirit studies.

Two-Spirit is an umbrella term used by and for Indigenous people who are part of the LGBTQI+ community — serving as a placeholder for other terms being recovered due to Indigenous language loss — and can refer to an Indigenous person's gender and sexuality.

That's according to OSU associate professor Luhui Whitebear, who took over Driskill's Indigenous Two-Spirit and queer studies course this term.

Whitebear declined to comment on the controversy surrounding Driskill.

According to multiple students, Driskill played a pivotal role in shaping this particular field of study. Fraud allegations not only inflict emotional damage, but academic and professional hurt for students who based their work on Driskill's, Gomez said.

"Their scholarship, if you've written a paper, or any kind of concept, or anything that they have encountered or engaged with that was Dr. Driskill's, it's now meaningless," Gomez said.

[Potato]

This is definitely someone who still lives with their parents and has a complex about being yelled at for not taking his shoes off.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

I bet you he takes his shoes off while mumbling insults to his mother under his breath like a little bitch.

[Potato]

In late October, a watchdog group released a scathing report refuting an Oregon State University professor's claims of Native American ancestry, prompting a graduate student to start an online petition calling for their removal in November.

But her issue wasn't just with the professor's ancestral claims.

The Ph.D. student who created the petition alleged OSU professor Qwo-Li Driskill had committed a series of abuses against students at OSU's College of Liberal Arts. Those grievances ranged from heavy workloads to alleged discrimination against students with disabilities and retaliation in the form of negative grades.

According to multiple graduate students, Driskill's behavior was the subject of concern long before a nonprofit raised serious questions about their Indigenous identity. Those collective concerns sparked letters to school leadership and most recently to OSU's president, demanding action.

Driskill, who is transgender, nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, has fired back with complaints against those same students and the university, alleging discrimination.

...

In addition to workload, there were complaints from students with disabilities and those with an illness or injury, saying they weren't afforded accommodations in class, like being able to attend via Zoom — an option Driskill afforded themselves on at least one occasion, Khan said.

Khan said students initially thought these issues could be resolved by talking to Driskill, but the associate professor was dismissive of feedback.

"It really started to feel like we were just not getting through to them with our grievances as students and graduate student employees," she said.

...

Khan said she's not heard back from the office about Driskill's allegations. However, she said she heard rumors from within the department about Driskill accusing some students of transmisogyny and discrimination, which she noted in the graduate student group's letter.

Khan believes those accusations have been used to discredit the cohort of students who've voiced complaints, which she said includes transgender students.

"It's not impossible for us to be bigoted against a trans person, I will admit that," Khan said. "But it seems like a stretch to say all of these trans students are exhibiting transmisogyny in our grievances."

However, Driskill has since filed a larger complaint against OSU, this time with the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries.

Driskill's Oct. 5 complaint alleges a broader culture of "backchannelling and triangulation that created a hostile work environment, particularly toward trans persons," an issue Driskill said they first raised with Bernardin last year.

In the complaint, Driskill alleged instances of school leadership denigrating a department event, and a faculty member making disparaging remarks against a graduate student related to their gender and their history as a victim of sexual violence.

Driskill also said they submitted multiple bias incident reports throughout the spring, including one for a school email they alleged outed transgender and nonbinary students.

Driskill alleged they've been "targeted for retaliatory actions and subjected to multiple and persistent microaggressions as well as macroaggressions," and excluded from work-related positions and department communications because of their disability, gender and racial identity.

Khan and other students, however, said Driskill retaliated against them and first-year graduate students during the current fall term in the form of stricter attendance polices and harsher grading.

...

The watchdog report included letters from various tribal enrollment offices denying Driskill's membership with the Cherokee, Osage and Lenape tribes — tribes to which Driskill claims ties.

The group's news release noted Driskill has acknowledged they are not citizens of any federally recognized tribe but maintains their ancestral claims.

On top of the enrollment office letters, however, the report also included genealogical histories of both sides of Driskill's family.

Following the release of the report, Driskill stopped coming to class, according to Yola Gomez, a first-year Ph.D. student who was taking two courses this term with the associate professor — which Gomez later dropped. Gomez said Driskill sent an email to students announcing they were taking medical leave.

The release of the watchdog report capped off a heartbreaking disillusionment for Gomez.

Gomez, who identifies as trans, multiracial and multiethnic, decided to further their education at OSU specifically to work with Driskill on indigenous and Two-Spirit studies.

Two-Spirit is an umbrella term used by and for Indigenous people who are part of the LGBTQI+ community — serving as a placeholder for other terms being recovered due to Indigenous language loss — and can refer to an Indigenous person's gender and sexuality.

That's according to OSU associate professor Luhui Whitebear, who took over Driskill's Indigenous Two-Spirit and queer studies course this term.

Whitebear declined to comment on the controversy surrounding Driskill.

According to multiple students, Driskill played a pivotal role in shaping this particular field of study. Fraud allegations not only inflict emotional damage, but academic and professional hurt for students who based their work on Driskill's, Gomez said.

"Their scholarship, if you've written a paper, or any kind of concept, or anything that they have encountered or engaged with that was Dr. Driskill's, it's now meaningless," Gomez said.

How are transgender and non-binary not mutually exclusive things?

[HaughtyFrank]

How are transgender and non-binary not mutually exclusive things?

My personal theory is that it simply got shoehorned into the trans movement so they don't have to start a whole new nonbinary-rights movement. And of course no one questions it because modern LGBT is about questioning nothing and affirming everything.

[Besticus Maximus]

We need to seize control of the anime supply

[Polident]

There’s actually quite a lot of nuance in anime and Japanese media regarding transgenderism, homosexuality, cross dressing, and even just androgyny.

The American Ts and Qs tap into their colonialism blood to divorce cultural context from international media to fit their narrow worldview.


 

There’s also a whole genre of no homo homosexual fiction. Where two straight hetero bros make an exception for each other. It’s very specifically not gay.

[benji]

How are transgender and non-binary not mutually exclusive things?

My personal theory is that it simply got shoehorned into the trans movement so they don't have to start a whole new nonbinary-rights movement. And of course no one questions it because modern LGBT is about questioning nothing and affirming everything.

My theory is that it's because they want to maintain the escape hatch to claim special status where they opt out from anything that gains broader acceptance. Thus why despite TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN they constantly emphasize the trans part of trans woman. They're really trying to claim an exclusive gender that's somewhat nebulous and exists purely to differentiate themselves as an individual. 

What does "man" or "woman" as terms of "gender" mean? Absolutely nothing, it's a fictitious concept that each individual interprets differently. Hence why it's verboten to frame trans women as not women by establishing some standard of "woman" while also verboten to deny womanhood to any cis woman for any reason. The only standard is supposed to be your individual acceptance of the label.

What does non-binary mean? It means you reject the "gender binary" which is what everyone does because this is a fictitious concept that each individual interprets differently, is a man growing a beard or a man shaving part of the gender binary? They can't answer at all. Since we've already established that the standards don't even exist (in the proper society not the current cishet dominated one) this is extra meaningless as you're opting out of something for which there are no standards to opt into or out of.

The fear is that the wrong people will start identifying as whatever, like any social trends, and those ahead of the trend need a way out to show they aren't like all those losers who weren't there before it was cool. 

You have to remember that in their minds other people are not distinct individuals who are all unique, there is only the faceless undifferentiated blob of well, calling them people is more than they deserve. They have a very strict idea of what man or woman constitutes and they are rebelling against that while maintaining the comfort of not having to be an individual with all its connected downsides of responsibility for one's self, everyone else is irrelevant except to the extent that they need to affirm this.

Now, one may object that isn't this what I'm doing? I see the distinction in that I'm establishing standards of a type of person, if you fit those then it applies, if you don't then it doesn't. If you think I'm critiquing you when I critique this type of person, it's you choosing to identify with that which is being critiqued. As I'm always willing to listen to how you differ and especially how you would define any of these terms that the type I'm describing absolutely refuses to do I feel I'm embracing the multitudes then. But I'm willing to listen to a critique of this that offers a better method.