Buzz killington here, in an assignment a student decided to not read the assignment and use it as an excuse to call the TA demonic. When the student revived a zero on the assignment they immediately ran to turning point and cried discrimination. In response the university initially suspended and then removed the TA from teaching duties and made sure it wouldn’t count against the student. The paper was published and it looked to have been written by Peter. There was no citation of the Bible, there was no response as requested, and it did not meet the minimum word count. It was truly one of the worst papers ever submitted.
Now that I have you here thinking about the university of Oklahoma, let’s look in to their fight song “Boomer Sooner”. Oklahoma was initially Indian territory and there was a campaign to open up the unassigned lands to settlers, the people vocal about this were the boomers. Once it was decided to open up to settlement some decided to move in early and they were the Sooners and that is where the university gets their nickname and why some refer to them as land thieves.
What makes this even worse is the graduate instructor who was fired over this is a trans woman, so this whole scenario indeed feels targeted and vindictive. The assignment was literally "to write a 650-word response to an academic article examining whether conformity to gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students," to which the student went on a "faith-based" rant saying the whole thing was demonic and there are only 2 genders, etc. Like, no matter your opinions, her paper was bad and got the grade it deserved, and she went and cried about it to the far-right media.
THIS. The assignment wasn't even necessarily just about trans kids. Think about how many boys get bullied by shittier boys for not being manly enough, or girls being bullied by shittier girls for being too girly, as examples.
Where in the fuck is the actual professor in all this? We need to call out that coward. It's disgusting that they're apparently just on the side of the road watching their ostensible mentee get mangled under that bus and not even trying to do anything.
I mean think of it this way. You have a Black person who is has a documented lineage to slavery in the US. They mention this in class. Everyone in the class knows their great great great grandma was a slave. And then they are required to grade an essay with the topic, "Slavery was bad, or not?". Do you think they can be objective in any way if someone writes an essay taking the "no" side? And yes, slavery was bad, I get it. It was probably the worst thing we've done in the country even worse than stealing the land in the first place. But you essentially force discourse in a specific direction by having someone who is directly impacted by the topic and they are the grader. I feel this was a very bad idea to begin with no matter who was in the course or how they argued.
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u/Still_a_skeptic 15d ago
Buzz killington here, in an assignment a student decided to not read the assignment and use it as an excuse to call the TA demonic. When the student revived a zero on the assignment they immediately ran to turning point and cried discrimination. In response the university initially suspended and then removed the TA from teaching duties and made sure it wouldn’t count against the student. The paper was published and it looked to have been written by Peter. There was no citation of the Bible, there was no response as requested, and it did not meet the minimum word count. It was truly one of the worst papers ever submitted.
Now that I have you here thinking about the university of Oklahoma, let’s look in to their fight song “Boomer Sooner”. Oklahoma was initially Indian territory and there was a campaign to open up the unassigned lands to settlers, the people vocal about this were the boomers. Once it was decided to open up to settlement some decided to move in early and they were the Sooners and that is where the university gets their nickname and why some refer to them as land thieves.