Posted on 08/10/2026 10:54:45 AM PDT by PA2SK
Wokeness allowed elite higher ed to create a new model of inclusive exclusion: one in which tuition can continue to climb, acceptance rates can continue to plummet, endowments can continue to expand, and adjunct labor can continue to be exploited as long as the demographics of those paying the tuition and those being exploited continued to get browner, Blacker, more LGBTQAIP2+. It also helped nurture the delusion that elite college graduates were being prepared for lives of civic virtue, and that their highly priced education would be deployed in service of the public good.
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Wow.
LGBTQAIP2+
I think "AIP2" means "Ain't I Pretty Too?" for anyone feeling left out of the Leftist Guys Bipolar Transgender Queerness (LGBTQ) group.
I Google searched the definition, every letter is explained clearly. The + sign is for all other genders not covered.
One of course is gender fluidity. That one is easy to explain, if the women’s basketball team finishes practice and goes to the showers, I as a male can declare myself a female and join them. If that evening, I can declare myself a male and ask one of the female players to go out with me!
They want you.
No. **“LGBTQAIP2+” is not some newly established official U.S. government acronym.**
It is one of the **many extended versions** of the LGBT acronym that have been used by particular organizations or communities. There isn’t a central authority that gets to declare the “official” acronym.
The letters in the version you gave are generally:
* **L** — Lesbian
* **G** — Gay
* **B** — Bisexual
* **T** — Transgender
* **Q** — Queer / Questioning
* **A** — Asexual (sometimes other meanings depending on the source)
* **I** — Intersex
* **P** — Pansexual
* **2** — Two-Spirit
* **+** — additional identities not represented by the letters
And even that isn’t standardized. You can find variations such as **LGBTQIA+**, **LGBTQIA2+**, **LGBTQQIP2SAA**, etc. A CDC publication, for example, explicitly notes that numerous different acronyms exist and gives **LGBTQQIAAP2S** as one expanded version. ([CDC][1])
### So who makes it “official”?
**Nobody, in the general sense.**
An organization can say:
> *”This is the terminology we use.”*
That’s an organizational style decision, not an official designation of the English language.
For example, the CDC currently uses **LGBTQ+** as its general umbrella acronym in its terminology guidance. ([CDC][2]) Its broader communications guidance lists **LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQ+, and LGBTQIA2** as alternatives. ([CDC][3])
The National Library of Medicine likewise has **LGBTQIA** as an entry term in its Medical Subject Headings, but that’s a controlled vocabulary for indexing medical literature—not a declaration that everybody must use that acronym. ([meshb.nlm.nih.gov][4])
So if you encountered **“LGBTQAIP2+”** somewhere and thought:
> **”Did they add another letter while I wasn’t looking?”**
😂 — **yes, somebody probably did.** But that doesn’t mean the United States, the English language, or even the LGBT community as a whole has adopted it as *the* official name.
[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/hivpartners/php/effectiveinterventions/library/toolkit-transgender-women-of-color/program-materials/cdc-hiv-ei-twoc-toolkit.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Toolkit for Providing HIV Prevention Services to Transgender Women of Color”
[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/healthy-youth/lgbtq-youth/terminology.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Terminology | Adolescent and School Health | CDC”
[3]: https://www.cdc.gov/health-communication/php/toolkit/preferred-terms.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Preferred Terms for Select Population Groups & Communities | Health Communication | CDC”
[4]: https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?dcmsLinks=true&ui=D000072339&utm_source=chatgpt.com “MeSH Browser”
Tyler Austin Harper, image from page in the Federalist Society
https://fedsoc.org/bio/tyler-harper
Tyler might have made tenure if he had a girlfriend like Penny....
Penny flaunts her body trying to get Leonard tenure at University (Big Bang Theory - S06E20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYaRNrrUwe4
While the article was written by a black guy....
The college sounds like pure torture for a normal straight white person.
The propaganda and hatred directed at them from the leftist faculty was brutal.
Note that he had no sympathy for those students at all—was just upset at how his dreams of academia were shattered.
That’s an utterly shallow reading. He didn’t pretend to speak for anyone but himself.
Ping
I understand the author was speaking only for himself.
That is my exact issue.
He showed zero compassion for the white “normie” students!
That is like writing about life on an antebellum plantation in the south as a plantation owner—and not being concerned the plight of the slaves on the plantation.
Even if “my life” is the primary focus of the article it shows cruelty to ignore the plight of those being stomped on—particularly when their fate is far worse than yours.
Tyler Austin Harper will soon be in a position to apply the same anti-hypocrisy analysis to The Atlantic.
I asked AI...
Interesting...
“In the 2025–26 U.S. college population, women make up about 58% of students and men 42%, compared with roughly 51% women and 49% men in the general U.S. population; by race/ethnicity, approximately 53% are White, 20% Hispanic/Latino, 16% Black, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial, and about 1% Native American/Pacific Islander, compared with roughly 58% White, 20% Hispanic/Latino, 13% Black, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial, and 1% Native American/Pacific Islander in the overall U.S. population; the biggest demographic overrepresentation is women, followed by Black students and, to a lesser extent, Asian and multiracial students. White students are the most underrepresented, with Hispanic/Latino and Native American/Pacific Islander students roughly proportionally represented..”
Probably the next step in his enlightenment is when the Atlantic goes for major layoffs.
Lol.
Pedophilia, necrophilia, and bestiality, for starters.
You’ve never read a memoir? I recommend Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt,
Or a novel?
In Search of Lost Time, maybe the greatest novel ever, spends one and a quarter million words and seven volumes entirely in the mind of the narrator. We learn next to nothing of the inner feelings of the persons he observes.
The writer of this article didn’t set out to write an overview of modern college life, though it’s not difficult for the reader to get a fair inference of the clusterf-— that is today’s higher education.
If you don’t find what you need in his very revealing personal account, find search elsewhere for reporting. Google is your friend.
[As to writings on antebellum plantation life, you’d be shocked how piddling were the accounts of slave life till very recently. The writer of this piece isn’t limiting any white student or faculty member from describing the cruelty of their campus life, though I think inanity fits better than cruelty.]
You have a point; but I wish him well in his slow awakening. He is a very talented guy, and evidence-minded rather than emotional. He is married (to a white woman) with a small child. His brainwashing as a black American is getting rinsed away by experience, aided by his exceptional intelligence. I hope his wife is not a typical lib and doesn’t retard his progress. Remember, Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas both were lefties when young.
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