A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
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#3Also a white backlash against CRT that is anti white.
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#4Hey look another outrage article about censorship.
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#5> But it would be better if universities, which owe their success to a tradition of dissent and debate, did in fact defend it.
From the article
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#6A flyer with an image of a gun and text reading “shut the fuck up, terf” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a slur) was circulating
Not accepting incivility from people is hardly what I'd call a "backlash". We don't operate our universities on the heckler's veto.
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#7I don’t know if this article is describing this phenomenon accurately, as the first paragraph contains an obvious falsehood: “ A flyer with an image of a gun and text reading “shut the fuck up, terf” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a slur) was circulating. ”.
TERF isn’t a slur. No one has successfully beaten and killed a woman while calling her a TERF and then got away with it in court like the gay panic defense and the trans panic defense has. No one was lynched for being a TERF like black people have been. This is a gross talking point trying to claim victim positioning and is inaccurate journalism. The whole article is suspect to be sympathetic to anti-trans politics as a result.
I do want to talk about how much gender has invaded the academic life in a way that gets in the way of education. Obviously, I don’t want even more gender politicking from the other “side”!
Re: A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
#8I don’t know if this article is describing this phenomenon accurately, as the first paragraph contains an obvious falsehood: “ A flyer with an image of a gun and text reading “shut the fuck up, terf” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a slur) was circulating. ”. TERF isn’t a slur. No one has successfully beaten and killed a woman while calling her a TERF and then got away with it in court like the gay panic defens…
> TERF isn’t a slur. No one has successfully beaten and killed a woman while calling her a TERF and then got away with it in court
That’s hardly the defining characteristic of a slur.
Re: A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
#9I don’t know if this article is describing this phenomenon accurately, as the first paragraph contains an obvious falsehood: “ A flyer with an image of a gun and text reading “shut the fuck up, terf” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a slur) was circulating. ”. TERF isn’t a slur. No one has successfully beaten and killed a woman while calling her a TERF and then got away with it in court like the gay panic defens…
A slur is an insult, no one has to have died for something to be a slur, not sure where you got that idea from.
Re: A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
#10I don’t know if this article is describing this phenomenon accurately, as the first paragraph contains an obvious falsehood: “ A flyer with an image of a gun and text reading “shut the fuck up, terf” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a slur) was circulating. ”. TERF isn’t a slur. No one has successfully beaten and killed a woman while calling her a TERF and then got away with it in court like the gay panic defens…
Wikipedia writes about that thought in their two opening paragraphs and concludes:
> In academic discourse, there is no consensus on whether or not TERF constitutes a slur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF
Sure, if someone uses it in their paper on, for example, history of feminist thought I wouldn't assume it to be offensive. On the other hand I don't think that the intention behind a sentence like “shut the fuck up, terf” is very unclear.