Posted on 12/17/2018 4:22:50 PM PST by WXRGina
Last month, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a labor union and foundation group out of Washington, D.C., that purports, in part, to support academic freedom, released a statement titled, “The Assault on Gender and Gender Studies.” It should send chills down the spines of any parents who have sent or are considering sending, their kids to college today.
What “assault” on gender? It’s not the one you might think, the one by militant homofascists and “transgender” activists. Instead, their idea of an assault on gender is from those who seek a return to sanity by codifying in law the correct definition of the sexes as biological male and female (as if that should ever need defining). The statement’s writers complain about Hungary’s Prime Minister decreeing that no “gender studies” courses can be taught in universities, and they also whine about the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ plan to correctly define sex for Title IX purposes.
Here’s a stunner from the first paragraph of the statement:
Both the Trump and the Orbán administrations insist upon a biological basis for gender that has been thoroughly discredited by over fifty years of feminist, trans, queer, and critical race research and by lived experience. These two administrations are not the only ones attacking so-called gender ideology. In Poland, Brazil, and Bulgaria, there have also been attempts to refute the scholarly consensus that gender identity is variable and mutable.
Again, this is a group of university professors who are teaching America’s kids this nonsense! According to the AAUP's "about" page, they have chapters on over 500 college campuses across the nation. That gem above wasn’t the worst of what they wrote. In response to the Hungary Prime Minister’s deputy saying that gender studies have no place in universities because they’re an ideology, not a science, the AAUP basically said, “I know you are, but what am I?!”:
The [AAUP]... strongly [condemns] these efforts to restrict the legal meaning of gender to what are said to be its natural, immutable forms. … Biologists, anthropologists, historians, and psychologists have repeatedly shown that definitions of sex and sexuality have varied over time... Politicians and religious fundamentalists are neither scientists nor scholars. Their motives are ideological. It is they who are offering “gender ideology” by attempting to override the insights of serious scholars. By substituting their ideology for years of assiduous research, they impose their will in the name of a “science” that is without factual support. This is a cynical invocation of science for purely political ends. [Emphasis mine]
How do we even respond to such foolish statements, which are so horribly divorced from truth and reason? The unchanging fact is that people are all made by God either male or female, period, and the passing of time and varying cultures do not alter that truth. If someone believes he is the opposite sex, then he needs help to align his mind with reality, to overcome his mental sickness and spiritual rebellion.
By saying, “Politicians and religious fundamentalists are neither scientists nor scholars,” they’re attempting to stifle debate against their assertions. Putting aside that such a statement is silly since they have no informed way of making that broad claim, it remains that no one needs to be an “official” scholar or scientist to know and speak the truth. This is a common rhetorical tactic of the scientifically-challenged left to silence their critics, to claim that we’re not “qualified” to speak against their contentions. Whether it’s “global warming,” now “climate change,” or the homofascist movement, real, honest science is not its foundation. It’s an inconvenience they discard (and replace with pseudo-science) when it contradicts their political agenda.
Regardless, this is what we’re facing in our nation today. Other countries, including Canada and those in Europe, are farther down the road to homofascist despotism, and unless we somehow stop the madness, we will be there, too. “Hate speech” crimes will be a punitive, everyday reality, much more so than they already are. Christians are already losing their jobs here in the United States for refusing to play along with the “transgender” charade. Christian business owners are being targeted and sued by homosexual activists for not lending their work and support to same-sex “marriage.”
This only gets worse and worse if we don’t stand firmly against it, and that’s a mighty tall order when our nation’s kids are being indoctrinated in the public schools and universities with pro-homosexual, pro-“transgender” propaganda. If the communists running our schools continue to own the minds of the younger generations, then we will eventually go the way of Canada and Europe to an ever-darker, despotic place where freedom of speech and conscience are just distant memories.
Thank God these university professors will not fall in line with this abhorrent sin.
Col, what do you mean? Terribly, these professors are fully on-board with the homofascist agenda.
The very definition of an ideology.
An ideology based on the desire to destroy western civilization and culture.
The ideology is explained at this link on the origins of Political Correctness.
I think you misread the article
I bet most of these members of the AAUP are also members of the AARP, but our bad luck won’t be RIP soon enough.
Barr body on buccal smear means what?
Sorry, Gas, but you’ll have to interpret your comment for me to understand it. :-)
I would say that LGBT ideology is an attack on all civilizations and cultures.
I don’t know of any civilization or culture that is not based on two genders.
Different cultures may have polygamy, but it is still based on two genders.
The LGBT ideology will totally obliterate all cultures and civilization will be completely transformed if they succeed.
I can’t imagine where it would lead. I only know I don’t want to go there.
I do know that when our Islamic overlords take control these people’s heads will be the first to fall off the chopping block. But they will go happily in to that good night because they are so multi-culturally open minded.
Look when putting penises in butt holes is not only “normal” but celebrated then ANYTHING is acceptable. Next up pedophilia.
Pretty much. It comes from the Frankfurt School one slogan you might remember is "If it feels good do it".
What the Frankfurt School essentially does is draw on both Marx and Freud in the 1930s to create this theory called Critical Theory. The term is ingenious because you’re tempted to ask, “What is the theory?” The theory is to criticize. The theory is that the way to bring down Western culture and the capitalist order is not to lay down an alternative. They explicitly refuse to do that. They say it can’t be done, that we can’t imagine what a free society would look like (their definition of a free society). As long as we’re living under repression – the repression of a capitalistic economic order which creates (in their theory) the Freudian condition, the conditions that Freud describes in individuals of repression – we can’t even imagine it. What Critical Theory is about is simply criticizing. It calls for the most destructive criticism possible, in every possible way, designed to bring the current order down. And, of course, when we hear from the feminists that the whole of society is just out to get women and so on, that kind of criticism is a derivative of Critical Theory. It is all coming from the 1930s, not the 1960s.
I agree.
I think that pedophilia will have a harder time being normalized but they are trying.
Ten years ago, I would never have dreamed that a high school coach would be fired because he would not permit a teenage girl to shower with the boys. But it happened.
It is not gender that is fluid it is sanity.
Remember the show Green Acres? The whole gag was Oliver Douglass looked insane because everyone around him was crazy. The sane man looks crazy in a crazy world.
Both the Trump and the Orbán administrations insist upon a biological basis for gender that has been thoroughly discredited by over fifty years of feminist, trans, queer, and critical race research and by lived experience.
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I have figured it out.
We are watching Evolution, right before our very eyes.
Measured in months, not Eons.
These new gender-fluid species will very soon extinct themselves.
And take all the rest of us down with them.
All girl somatic cells are XX
All boy somatic cells are XY
The extra clump of X DNA in girl somatic cells is seen inside the cell nucleus along its edge <- the Barr body
Only girls have Barr bodies.
A stained mouth swab is an easy and cheap way to demonstrate.
Ah! For a minute, I thought you were talking Q-ism, or something.
Yeah. There’s that.
Yeah, well, they’ll try their damnedest to take us down with them, anyway.
The trans movement is overtaking and pushing out the gay stuff when it comes to funding. Soros, Tide group, etc. are dumping a LOT of money into it.
Break down western society via a breakdown in family and religion.
But of course, the premise of the show was that people in fly over country are a bunch of rubes.
Even the college educated people like the college educated county agent Hank Kimble.
The same with this bunch of college professors. They consider the people trying to stop this madness a bunch of bigoted, fly over country rubes.
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