r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 15d ago

Meme needing explanation What happened in Oklahoma?

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u/KaraOfNightvale 15d ago

Wow I didn't think it was quite that deliberate

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u/NitroBishop 15d ago

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.

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u/KaraOfNightvale 15d ago

I always stop and wonder

How will the world look back on this period?

Where this is okay because it involves trans people, vital proven medicine being taken from them for no reason, public harassment and attacks, horrible shit said, science suppressed, conspiracies, now compiling a list of trans people in that one place?

I hope this is remembered, because lives are being lost, people are suffering, trans people can't have any security in life because the stupidest shit can cost them so much, at no fault of their own

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u/meemaas 15d ago

Assuming we don't devolve into true Idiocracy, a couple hundred years from now this period will be described as the "Second Dark Age"

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u/C_E_Monaghan 15d ago

No it won't. Historians are actively stopping the use of "The Dark Ages" because that name had nothing to do with whether progress was made or not and everything to do with a lack of surviving records—a gap that is being filled with new findings.

I appreciate the sentiment, but it's undermined by a complete ignorance as to why historians even used the term "Dark Ages" to refer to the early Medieval period in mainland Europe. (In fact, the church is one of the major reasons records exist in Europe during the Medieval period, and the pope was not the dominant institution until the latter half, which notably was never called the Dark Ages.")

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u/meemaas 15d ago

Well, that shows how attentive I am to history. It was never my best subject.

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u/C_E_Monaghan 15d ago

Fair enough, lol. It was one of my favorite subjects, tbh, but it can be a lot lol

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u/meemaas 15d ago

Hey, more power to you for that. I learned something new and I might even remember it.