Swarthmore College catalogs LGBTQ+ terminology: The Alphabet Mafia is on such a roll making up new “words,” they’ll soon have to make up new letters

American Thinker ^ | 03/04/2023 | Eric Utter

[SeekAndFind]

Pennsylvania’s Swarthmore College proudly maintains — and regularly updates — a webpage cataloging the LGBTQ+ terminology it fosters and recognizes. “BIQTPOC,” “Masculine of Center”, and “Transmisogynoir” are among the terms and phrases the school sanctions. Really.

According to Swarthmore, “Transmisogynoir” refers to “cultural and interpersonal systems of oppression affecting and against Black, transgender women,” whereas “Masculine of Center” is a “gender identity label for a queer person, typically assigned female at birth but not always, who presents masculinely; most often utilized by queer women of Color.” Alrighty then.

And “BIQTPOC,” which the esteemed institution of higher learning definitively says should be pronounced “bye cutie pock,” is an acronym for “Black and Indigenous Queer and Transgender People of Color.” Which, of course, is simply a modification of “QTPOC,” or “cutie pock,” which stands for the shorter and possibly slightly less specific “Queer and Transgender People of Color.”

I don’t want to know what other terms are on Swarthmore’s listOddly enough, the college was founded in 1864 by the Religious Society of Friends, a.k.a. the Quakers, but dropped the affiliation in 1906. Which is probably what eventually led the university to offer a course titled “Is God a white supremacist?” as it has done in recent years. (Somewhere, Ben Franklin is not amused.)

Swarthmore’s website says the course will primarily focus on “representations of race in religious discourses and social practice,” with “particular attention” being “given to discussion of the interpretive practices that are foundational to the process of ‘whiteness-making’ and the construction of white identity.” Perhaps I need better “interpretive practices,” but it sounds to me like Swarthmore thinks “White identity” is produced by 3D Printers.

[SeekAndFind]

Required reading materials for the “Is God a white supremacist” course include biblical interpretations of “white supremacist ‘Christian identity’ churches” and the Yakub theory of racial formation in the Nation of Islam.

Course themes include: “human/anti-human binaries, death and being, and perceptions of the racialized transcendent Other in the social, political, and symbolic order.” Surely there isn’t a human/anti-human binary! There must be a nearly infinite number of homo sapiens/anti-homo sapiens identities on a spectrum, right? The same for death versus being. Some of us are clearly alive, some clearly not, and some — like Joe Biden for example — are somewhere in between.

The alleged existence of the theme “perceptions of the racialized transcendent Other in the social, political, and symbolic order” raises the question, “what the bleep?” Even as it lowers our expectations and opinions of higher education itself.

[fhayek]

“When Cass was a sophomore, planned to go to Swarthmore
But she changed her mind one day...”

[oldasrocks]

They only need 6 I N S A N E

[Nextrush]

Newspeak Is here.

[Chickensoup]

If alum are not ashamed and humiliated and objecting...

[Verginius Rufus]

The Emperor Claudius invented three new letters for the Latin alphabet. They went out of use after his death. He may have been the only one of the early Roman emperors whose proclivities were strictly heterosexual (at least Edward Gibbon thought so)--he was married four times and had mistresses in addition.

Benjamin Franklin lived most of his life in Philadelphia but didn't have any connection to the Quakers.

[faithhopecharity]

Here are sone letters that used to be in the English alphabet —
Maybe the commies at the college will bring these back for their next half-dozen PIG’s (Prevert Identity Groups)

thorn (þ), eth (ð), eng (ŋ), wynn (ƿ), yogh (ȝ), ash (æ), and ethel (œ)

[The Great RJ]

This woke newspeak is totally insane. Pseudo academics generate this nonsense that is just a word salad meant to sound intellectual but has no meaning. As long as there is plenty of lip service to every variation of gender and minorities and white males are denigrated and everyone other than white males are victims of oppression any work is trumpeted as scholarship.

[Tellurian]

Pseudo academics generate this nonsense

A million graduates from the last couple of decades were "educated" with useless humanities and communication degrees. But so as not to be rendered irrelevant, they're damn sure they're going to put their superior smarts to use: get paid to use their "genius" to inflict their miserable interpretation of reality on other young impressionable lost souls.

[sauropod]

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[No.6]

The Geats would carve the alphabet people into pieces. On the plus side, a new era of peace between Beowulf and Grendel would emerge as Beo could dismember the extra members before Grendel devoured the remains.

[faithhopecharity]

Smiles