Kulturkampf

[PhoenixDark]

I won't waste a second of time trying to convince leftists to be rational and vote for Biden but stuff like this really highlights how insane their position is. Part of it is performative. They want you to come hat in hand begging for their help. But boy is it funny that we've gone from "well they're both the same so I won't vote for either" to "we need to prepare for a national disaster if Trump gets in office again" lmao.

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[Eric Cartman]

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

OH NO SHE DI'NT

[Eric Cartman]

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

So when they're talking about OSU, they're not talking about the freeware Oendan / Elite Beat Agents clone, right?

[Potato]

These people made their bed. It's just so satisfying watching them scratch the fleas.

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[HaughtyFrank]

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Can't tell if the author double downed on the metaphor or if the author didn't understand it was a metaphor

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They locked the replies and are blocking people who quote tweet it.

[HaughtyFrank]

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There has been a weird mix of demands for ceasefire while at the same time demanding an intifada or yelling "no peace on stolen land"

[Potato]

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Can't tell if the author double downed on the metaphor or if the author didn't understand it was a metaphor

Trash takes itself out every single time...

[Potato]

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There has been a weird mix of demands for ceasefire while at the same time demanding an intifada or yelling "no peace on stolen land"

Wait, you're telling me the left has inconsistent internal logic and confused messaging?


I'm shocked, I tell you. Completely shocked.

[Polident]

Why weren’t people this annoying… okay, rephrasing… annoyingly disruptive over the Ukraine thing?

If the point is to get people on your side, being as abrasive and unpleasant as possible isn’t going to get people to view your cause well.

[Uncle]

because seemingly everyone agreed about ukraine, there was no need to protest to get action

[Besticus Maximus]

Because the people supporting Ukraine are the good guys, is the simple true and honest answer.

[HaughtyFrank]

It's interesting when American racial politics make it over the Atlantic. 
When I see black people in America talk like this I might not necessarily agree with it but I can understand where that anger comes from considering their ancestors were literally enslaved, not to mention the segregation and lasting racism that followed. But seeing a guy whose country is ruled by an autocrat, a country that has committed genocide and remains in a forever war against the Kurds, talk about how white people are the most evil people is something else.

[Nintex]

Why weren’t people this annoying… okay, rephrasing… annoyingly disruptive over the Ukraine thing?

If the point is to get people on your side, being as abrasive and unpleasant as possible isn’t going to get people to view your cause well.

Because that war had a popular face of defiance: Zelensky. He spoke on behalf of everyone on the side of Ukraine. The government mostly moved in lockstep with public opinion too.

Unfortunately the public is bored of him and he's not so popular now that all the expensive tanks are burning in a minefield and the money to repair them has been spend on sports cars, hookers and blow but you can't win em all 

Also we're seeing other figures of the Zelensky government try and take the limelight (or shift the blame) now too, but it's like meeting up with some very shady characters to plan a mission in GTAIV.

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[Polident]

The Dune discourse is, and has been, amazing. It’s clear none of them read the books. Or to borrow a phrase, are media illiterate. Plus, the fremen in the movies are all non-white. Like it’s deliberate or something.

[Tucker's Law]

My fear is they’re going to current-day the shit out of Chani and Paul in part 2, I just know it, and I’ll fucking hate it.  HEAVENS FORBID WE STAY TRUE TO SOURCE MATERIAL, THAT SHIT’S FOR NERDS.

[Nintex]

[Besticus Maximus]

he's a big fat eejit that one

[Nintex]

Listen yo Listen, yo

Yo listen Shut up Listen 

Adidas manager be like tweet and shit

Listen, shut up, let me talk

Let me talk for a sec. yo

Hey yo let me talk

God and shit

I'm gonna kick you out

Shut up seriously



Karen West

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[Nintex]

[Uncle]

I can agree with a lot of what he says, but he opens with a series of examples of how "things change," countries get taken over, people get kicked out, and then talks about how Israel isn't going anywhere, as if that wouldn't be just another potential example of "things changing"

[Polident]

Many of his examples of other groups begrudgingly accepting changes sort of short changes how many policies and conflicts have roots in ancient feuds. Ukraine and Russia. China and Taiwan (and others). So on and so on. These things have a nasty habit of sticking around. So much of the undercurrent of the simplistic colonizer and colonized, oppressed and oppressor, stuff has roots in generations old struggles.

When pressed on why progressive movements are so invested in regressive ancient conflicts, the stock answer tends to be: we can't move forward without correcting perceived mistakes of the past. That's fair if people take that view. Rarely do their policies and actions reflect that. Often it's some elaborate rigamarole about getting toothpaste back in the tube, erasing any progress and quality of life improvements that have been made, without any concept of what happens after. Everybody is basically doing the MAGA thing. It's easier to sell the good old days than any tangible ideas.

[Nintex]

With marxism there is always the idea that to build the new communist utopia you first have to take down the existing structures of power and governance and to do so any means are justified. I think that despite one side being progressive and the other conservative, the activist left and political Islam at times get along so well because they both have the same goal: destroy the existing states with intimidation, repression and if need be violence, but seek a different outcome Ummah vs. Communist Utopia.

The activist left is also helping them to justify the ongoing Islamic conquest: "all these people are racist so they deserve to be destroyed or conquered", "Forcing women to wear Hijabs is not an attack on womens rights but empowers them". It's not unlike how the Nazis formed a pact with the Prussian military elite: "We help you to kill these jews because they made/make us lose the war" despite both sides constantly plotting against and undermining one another.

Many people forget that for Islamic scholars and teachings the current times are just part of an ongoing conquest that started 1413 years ago. The modern day progressives are just another 'unlikely' ally of many they encountered and disposed of over the ages. In the west we poorly understand this because we think 'history' was reset after WWII in 1945(or in some cases after 2001 or 2016) and nothing that came before it really matters.

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