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Students Mock Woke Survey · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Well, I think you're going to enjoy this one. It's stories like these
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  that give me actual hope for the Western world. And as an added bonus,
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  it's hilarious. Here's the headline, Researchers horrified decry rise of fascism as
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  students send mocking responses to woke survey. Academic researchers condemned students irreverent and offensive
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  responses to an LGBTQ survey, claiming the pushback indicates fascist ideologues are living inside
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  the House of Engineering and Computer Science. That's right, because every time somebody
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  says something they don't like, there can only be one explanation. They're fascists.
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  Now, of course, this is all idiotic, and it should come
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  as no surprise that we've learned of this from an article for the Bulletin of
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  Applied Transgender Studies, which appears to be just simply an outlet for calling people
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  fascists. But this article was from academics from Oregon State University, and they
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  wrote about their shock at receiving sarcasm and mockery in response to their research into
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  undergraduate LGBTQ students studying in STEM fields. And you might wonder what LGBTQ or
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  applied transgender studies has to do with the stem fields, which is the hard
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  sciences, And of course the answer is nothing, of course, unless you
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  are a far left lunatic. And the team claimed that fifty of three hundred
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  and forty nine responses to their questionnaire on the topic contained quote, slurs,
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  hate speech, or direct targeting of the research team, and if that sounds
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  like woke hysteria, it is labeling them malicious respondents. They adapted their project
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  to examine how the joke responses quote relate to engineering culture by framing them within
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  larger social contexts. Nay the rise of online fascism, because everything they don't
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  like or don't understand is of course fascism. And I find this kind of
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  ironic they say relate to engineering culture, when I think what they're actually trying
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  to do is engineer culture. The result was the paper that was titled Attack
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  Helicopters and White Supremacy Interpreting malicious Responses to an online questionnaire about transgender undergraduate engineering
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  and computer Science student experiences. So, for one thing, there's no such
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  thing as transgender engineering or transgender computer science. That's just idiotic. And I
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  think the real problem here is that these students are much smarter than the academics.
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  According to the article, when the malicious subjects were asked to fill out
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  demographic data, twelve respondents, twenty four percent indicated their gender is being related
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  to a helicopter or aircraft, ranging from an Apache Attack helicopter to a V
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  twenty two osprey. And the section declaring one's disabilities, responses ranged from claiming
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  to be illiterate to lamenting my country is run by communists, or even declaring
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  that identifying as transgender is a disability in itself due to quote the inability to
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  come to terms with biological reality. Oh dear, those academics from Oregon State
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  University. We're not gonna like that. Let's see one respondent claim to identify
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  as a gift card as their gender under racial and ethnic identities, they said,
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  quote, I'm an ethnic gift card. And for disability, the answer
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  was quote I don't have enough gift cards. I'm liking these guys. Other
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  responses to questions about identity rejected the researcher's project entirely, with answers such as,
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  quote, my skin color is not important, and come on, man,
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  these questions are stupid. Everyone is a grab bag of genetics from all
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  over the world, and quote, what else do you want to know what
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  I ate for breakfast? This question is unnecessary that I mentioned that the students
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  seem smarter than the academics studying them. Let's see. The research team declared
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  that the mockery they receive quote had a profound impact on morale and mental health,
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  particularly for one transgender researcher who was already in therapy for anxiety and depression.
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  Regarding online anti trans rhetoric, what you mean like children can't consent to
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  being sterilized that kind of rhetoric. I think all of this stuff, all
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  of this woke stuff, the far left stuff, the gender studies, all
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  the critical studies, these are just excuses to be a perpetual child, to
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  never grow up. Like a professional would be embarrassed to make statements like this
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  that they'd had a profound impact on morale and mental health. It's using grown
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  up words to express a child's state of mind. The paper claimed that managing
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  the studies data collection caused significant personal distress and time had to be taken off
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  the project to heal to heal from traumatic harm of having to read students responses
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  in the survey, jokes and perfectly rational statements from sane people. I mean,
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  if you're traumatized by sanity, you should not have anything to do with
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  the university. Again, these are these people are children. Now, I'm
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  sure that you'll be happy to learn this. The researchers appeared surprised that their
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  own findings had been ultimately rejected by many academic journals, leaving them with the
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  impression that their research to crying so called fascism and academia is viewed by some
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  as quote irrelevant to engine your education, if not alarmist, I would say
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  it's both. So I guess not everybody's buying it. But if you really
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  want to see in the minds of these people, this is what they said.
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  The university at its most ideal can be envisioned as a central site for
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  revolutionary struggle, a site where we can work to educate for critical consciousness using
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  a pedagogy of liberation. That's right. They believe that the central role for
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  education is to turn everybody into communist revolutionaries. Not good engineers, not good
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  mathematicians, not good doctors, not good anything, just good revolutionaries and So
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  what can be done about lunatics like this? Well, for one thing,
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  don't send your kids to university in Oregon, and beyond that, be very
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  careful and do a lot of research where you do send up. If you
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  do, make sure they don't get a worthless degree. And if you ever
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  see them reading of the bullet a tin of applied transgender studies, frankly,
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  it's probably too late. And unless you're on a series of increasingly uncomfortable Christmases,
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  it's probably time to disown them. Anyway, Please subscribe, link and
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