Posted on 07/21/2023 4:07:51 PM PDT by Drew68
Academic researchers condemned students’ irreverent and offensive responses to an LGBTQ survey, claiming the pushback indicates "fascist ideologues" are "living ‘inside the house’ of engineering and computer science."
In an article for the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, academics from Oregon State University wrote about their shock at receiving sarcasm and mockery in response to their research into undergraduate LGBTQ students studying in STEM fields.
The team claimed 50 of 349 responses to their questionnaire on the topic contained "slurs, hate speech, or direct targeting of the research team." Labeling them "malicious respondents," they adapted their project to examine how the joke responses "relate to engineering culture by framing them within larger social contexts — namely, the rise of online fascism."
The result was the paper titled, "Attack Helicopters and White Supremacy: Interpreting Malicious Responses to an Online Questionnaire about Transgender Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science Student Experiences."
The paper broke the responses down into themes like demographics, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), gender, "anti-trans, anti-queer," racism, antisemitism and "online hate subculture references." Several answers contained profanity and other offensive and obscene language and many referenced memes.
According to the article, when the "malicious" subjects were asked to fill out demographic data, "12 respondents (24%) indicated their gender as being related to a helicopter or aircraft" ranging from an "Apache Attack Helicopter" to a "V22 osprey." In the section declaring one’s disabilities, responses ranged from claiming to be "illiterate" to lamenting "My country is run by communists," or even declaring that identifying as transgender is a disability in itself due to "the inability to come to terms with biological reality."
One respondent claimed to identify as a gift card as their gender. Under racial and ethnic identities they said, "I’m an ethnic gift card," and for disability the answer was...
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The snowflakes are horrified that normal people laugh at and ridicule their faggotry?
Good.
“Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies”
A total LOL....
“Has the left ever defined fascism...?”
What’s interesting is that fascism is rooted in dirigisme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirigisme
It’s where the government “partners” with industry like with electric vehicles, solar farms, ordering companies to make products, telling you what you can eat and etc.
In short the government we have right now is fascism.
“the school of study is the opposite of liberal arts meaning they tolerate very little wokist crap.”
Hubby has a PhD in Physics. His last position was with a national lab chock full of Physicists, Engineers, Chemists, etc., It was so woke he couldn’t take it any more and retired early.
They made conscious decisions that compromised the quality of product in order to defer to the diversity Nazis.
Glad to see that Oregon State hasn’t entirely gone down the woke toilet. Yet.
We are clearly ready for WWIII.
I find it amusing and ridiculous that the very people faithfully practicing Fascism continue to call those that disagree with government control of speech the. real fascists. If I were Dean I would FIRE everyone of them for being just plain STUPID AND DISHONEST
These hilarious student responses give me some hope for the future.
When I think of Engineers, I think of Realists
Yeah, that's not fascist at all.
As a 57-year-old computer geek, this article made me smile and gave me a wee glimmer of hope for the future. Thank you for sharing it.
“The paper claimed that “managing the study’s data collection caused significant personal distress, and time had to be taken off the project to heal from traumatic harm” of having to read students’ responses in the survey.”
Kill yourselves.
“The team claimed 50 of 349 responses to their questionnaire on the topic contained “slurs, hate speech, or direct targeting of the research team.”
Probably 347 out of 349 actualy felt that way but held back.
Very similar to the old Pickett slide rule that I still have. I remember using it while I was a STEM student at Oregon State, as a matter of fact, after my first calculator died and before I got the HP-15C that I use to this day.
“Has the left ever defined fascism ...?”
They just throw the words around like Nazi, homophobe, racist etc knowing that the average American idiot doesn’t have a clue.
Bkmk
Counterintuitive.
What kind of idiot doesn't know this?
Oh wait. Don't tell me. I know. A critical-race-theorizing, braindead, gender-affirming, gay-appeasing, pronoun-demanding, caucasian-hating, physically-flabby, reparations-entitled idiot.
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