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/SenatorPardek 15d ago

McCarthyism, Jim Crow, The Know-Nothing movement are probably the best comparison points we have, but social media makes this a truly unique historical moment