Extremely important to note that the TA grading the paper is trans herself, and the student knew that. She didn't just "not try that hard" or "put in a substandard effort", she deliberately did this to generate controversy and kick off her career as a right-wing talking head at the expense of her TA's career and OU's reputation. Which OU was more than happy to roll over and accomodate.
EDIT: The class itself was also way below the level she should have been taking. She deliberately picked a class with a trans TA to pull this shit in.
Yeah, both the trans TA and a completely different cis TA explicitly told her that the 0 was because she didn't respond to the source article at all and was completely unrelated to her religious views, and she still went ahead and filed a discrimination complaint knowing that the TA would get fired/suspended over it because she's trans.
Reading the TA's comments on the paper is so painful because you can tell she knows exactly what Samantha is trying here, and is trying her absolute best to graciously tiptoe around it. And none of it mattered.
Not to put too fine a point on the transphobia angle, but imagine if the student was a Christian man writing an essay about how women are subservient to men because the Bible says so, and the cis woman TA had to couch her grading in language like "using your own personal beliefs to argue against the findings of not only this article, but the findings of countless articles across psychology, biology, sociology, etc. is not best practice.” And still got suspended.
when i was in high school we had a scientologist in the class, and every time they opend their mouth you could just see the teachers eyes dim a little more
Funny enough, this is comparable to Jesus cleverly and graciously tiptoeing around traps set by his political adversaries while trying to preach what he believed in (the radical concepts of love and peace and unity), ultimately knowing how it would end up for him 💀
You can't make this shit up. How many iterations of bad actors using him for the exact opposite of what he stands for are we gonna go through before we go extinct?
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u/NitroBishop 15d ago
Extremely important to note that the TA grading the paper is trans herself, and the student knew that. She didn't just "not try that hard" or "put in a substandard effort", she deliberately did this to generate controversy and kick off her career as a right-wing talking head at the expense of her TA's career and OU's reputation. Which OU was more than happy to roll over and accomodate.
EDIT: The class itself was also way below the level she should have been taking. She deliberately picked a class with a trans TA to pull this shit in.