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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My favorite:
"The research team declared that the mockery they received "had a profound impact on morale and mental health," particularly for one transgender researcher who was "already in therapy for anxiety and depression regarding online anti-trans rhetoric." 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."
According to the study, the solution to this mockery, of course, is increased cramming of diversity and inclusion down student's throats. That'll make things better!
Now mock them for crying about fascism and see the fireworks REALLY begin
Get used to it freaks. It’s a brave new world.
I’ve got your malicious respondent right here.
My son just received a degree in Engineering. From what I’ve seen, the school of study is the opposite of liberal arts meaning they tolerate very little wokist crap.
Fascists calling those who don’t fall in line, fascists. Not surprising though. The progressives are some of the most racist folks you’ll ever meet, yet they claim everyone else is racist.
LOL
"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 "I don’t have enough gift cards."
In the old days the left said “never trust anyone under 30”.
For youngsters these days that is probably good advice on how to deal with the woke zombie teachers and administrators.
They may be groomers and/or pedophiles—better safe than sorry.
Has the left ever defined fascism ...? Cause i don’t think it means the same thing as it is defined in Webster’s.
I can’t stop laughing. For sure I thought this was the Babylon Bee, but it’s for real!!
“ , “12 respondents (24%) indicated their gender as being related to a helicopter or aircraft” ranging from an “Apache Attack Helicopter” to a “V22 osprey.”
Bahahahahahahahahahah
I love it!
Oops—that was “never trust anyone over 30”.
When will the Woke Left learn that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?
You force pronouns and gender fluidity on kids, and they’ll react by going in the opposite direction.
Engineering students who identify as helicopters can finally come out of the closet and wear their propeller beanies with pride ...
Congrats!
Its good to hear that hasn’t changed since I was in college.
Engineers really don’t have the time to concentrate on nonsense.
“Has the left ever defined fascism”
The left defines words any way they like, any time they like—and can change their definition in a nanosecond.
“When I use a word… it means just what I choose it to mean”
Humpty Dumpty from “Alice in Wonderland”.
The Left desperately wants to change this.
From the article:
"Engineering in particular, they argued, is a critical field to teach their far-left ideology because such graduates "frequently work in fields such as fossil fuels, defense, construction, and technology upon graduation, and could be taught about these field’s relationships with national and global racial capitalism and ongoing apartheid in Palestine, as an example."
The Woke Left believes in the New Human—obedient to the slightest whim of those in power.
If they want to find the fascists they are looking for—all they need to do is look in the mirror.
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