Conservative activists and politicians have rallied around a college student who received a zero on an essay. Some grad students said they’re worried about what happens next.
Megan Waldron, a second graduate student who teaches the course alongside Curth, agreed with the grade. “Everyone has different ways in which they see the world, but in an academic course such as this you are being asked to support your ideas with empirical evidence and higher-level reasoning,” she wrote to Fulnecky, according to the screenshots.
Yes, “I think there are only two genders” isn’t an empirical statement. This isn’t hard. This “student” is someone who has no business being in a science class.
Fulnecky has said because they only communicated online, she did not know Curth’s gender identity until the Turning Point USA chapter pointed it out on social media. She told The College Fix, a conservative media nonprofit focused on universities, she thinks Curth should be fired if she can’t separate her personal feelings from grading assignments.
The sheer audacity of gaslighting here, I can’t even. The MAGA student’s religious feelings were not sufficient for the coursework, so clearly the teacher is the one who can’t separate her personal feelings from the assignment.
In short, the right wants to prevent cancel-culture when people are objectively awful, hateful bigots, but supports cancel-culture when they do their jobs neutrally and objectively; they want to claim the left acts based on feelings and can’t accept reality, but when they call their own feelings “beliefs” then expect those feelings to supersede law and empirical reality; and they constantly claim victimhood from positions of decisive (and unearned) power.
Despite the preceding paragraphs, I’m actually dumbfounded by this story - the above is as effective as a wordless guttural scream since none of what I said comes close to expressing the disappointment and frustration with how much power stupid bigoted people have right now.
Yes, “I think there are only two genders” isn’t an empirical statement. This isn’t hard. This “student” is someone who has no business being in a science class.
The sheer audacity of gaslighting here, I can’t even. The MAGA student’s religious feelings were not sufficient for the coursework, so clearly the teacher is the one who can’t separate her personal feelings from the assignment.
In short, the right wants to prevent cancel-culture when people are objectively awful, hateful bigots, but supports cancel-culture when they do their jobs neutrally and objectively; they want to claim the left acts based on feelings and can’t accept reality, but when they call their own feelings “beliefs” then expect those feelings to supersede law and empirical reality; and they constantly claim victimhood from positions of decisive (and unearned) power.
Despite the preceding paragraphs, I’m actually dumbfounded by this story - the above is as effective as a wordless guttural scream since none of what I said comes close to expressing the disappointment and frustration with how much power stupid bigoted people have right now.