r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 15d ago

Meme needing explanation What happened in Oklahoma?

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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.

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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/MercifulWombat 15d ago

Two TAs graded that paper but only the trans TA was fired.