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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Glad to see that Oregon State hasn’t entirely gone down the woke toilet. Yet.
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I’m 58 miles from OSU and have a lot of relatives that graduated from that institution.
The professors are getting pretty woke, but it doesn’t mean every student who shows up on campus is a wokester.
It’s good to see some pushback against a destructive ideology.
we are now facists if we dont bow to thier demands and speak against, much like we are racist when we disagree on BLM, looting commercial stores and DEI
Yeah, that’s the money quote for sure.
Not enough coffee yet, can’t figure how to add an H I T to expand their title.
Every time I think “this has to be parody,” it isn’t.
Fascists Against Fascism.
Taht reminds me of the TikTok video last year in which some woke teacher couldn’t figure out if she had to go along with one of her students.
She had gone around the room askeing each kid for their pronouns. She missed one. (We’ll call hiim Johnny.)
Johnny saidi, “You forgot me.”
“So I did,” the teacher said. “What are your pronouns?”
“Banana and rock.”
She was so confused that she took to TikTok to ask her fellow wokies if she had to use those.
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