Columbia has ejected the protesters, now here are the demands from the law students

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Well if you are on either side of this it seems like it would benefit you to at least postpone finals. The date of the finals is mostly arbitrary anyway.

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This post is dumb as hell. It's acting like a gotcha because they want to peacefully protest without cops initiating violence but also want cops to actually deal with the violent fascist pro genocide "counter protest".

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Marxist language itself is used to curry favour, even if it contains no actual Marxism.

Well that's a good point and it's similar to what liberals do with leftist language in general. like people like Pelosi or Clinton legitimately believe they are "on the left" because they talk about invading and occupying Afghanistan in the context of putting girls in school.

At the same time you get people enforcing a gender hierarchy like "that girl is a boy because she likes to fix cars." While calling that leftist or using Marxist language as you say. No that shit is extremely hierarchical and therefore right wing.

It doesn't help that they all constantly self identify as leftist Marxist etc so everyone who sees this just points at them and says "see the left is like this."

For some reason i don't see this inverted self labelling happen on the right except recently in the context of populism. Populists are now claiming to be "right wing" and are being labeled as such by the media but populism is by definition left wing. It also happens a bit with libertarians who sort of horse shoe around to almost advocating for communism but with property rights.

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Gender abolitionists are quite opposed to transgender ideas. Those people are the radical feminists who got renamed to "TERFs" before they just started calling everyone who mildly disagreed with them a TERF. I agree there is a lot of confusion but it feels like a psyop to fuck with leftists because then we can never talk about ending wars or corporate greed.

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It's so strange when people are trying to push an ideology while simultaneously claiming that it doesn't even exist.

It all feels like the same postmodernism stuff they use for everything. In terms of language all words have no meaning and simultaneously mean a very specific thing which you are expected to know after pulling the definition out of an undisclosed orifice.

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Yes but Title 9 explicitly frames it as male and female sex categories so even if you go with postmodern nonsense meanings for man and woman then SCOTUS should in theory uphold the protections.

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there is a subset of "classical Marxists", for lack of a better term, who see gender ideology as more of a neoliberal/corporate product (which I agree with - to an extent.) Though they tend to hand-wave away the support within leftist academia, and how much it has attached itself to the Marxist cause.

That's explicitly true. The whole gender bullshit aligns perfectly with liberalism and a right wing framework of gender. Yes i fully understand that people who call themselves leftists, marxists, communists, etc are all bought into the trans stuff but i really can't think of a way to make the puzzle pieces fit in a way that could make the gender ideology be a leftist concept. I generally attribute it to these people being bat shit crazy and that nothing they say regarding gender makes sense anyway. They can call themselves leftists just as much as they can call themselves nonbinary. That doesn't mean it makes sense.

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If you're nonbinary then why do you need a MtF surgery?

Also amputation of a penis is explicitly easier than cutting in a hole and inserting part of your intestine to make an opening that you will need to perpetually inflate to keep from healing. In no universe does that excuse make sense.

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The big problem is that Title 9 keeps getting messed with. No one has changed the law but Obama, Trump, and Biden have kept putting out policies which say they will "interpret" Title 9 differently so schools freak out that they could be in violation of Title 9. The craziest part is that each interpretation is POLAR OPPOSITE of the other. The law was literally written to give protection based on "sex" and it says so in the law very clearly. No one ever had any confusion on what the law said until Obama came along and said they were going to interpret the law to mean the exact opposite of what it says. At this point we really need the supreme court to come in and say "you can't interpret the law to mean the exact opposite of what it says."

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Rachel Dolezal has entered the chat.

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As of right now the number 1 comment is all pro violence but the number 2 comment is surprisingly rational.

Don't publish your desire to do harm to others online, kids. It does nothing but looks realllly bad on paper.

I used to post stuff like that a lot thinking it would provide catharsis, but all it gave me was the need to create a brand new reddit account. It really isn't worth it. I don't think it actively does harm to the world or the movement or anything, people say horrible things about their ideological opponents no matter what evidence there is, but it does do harm to the person saying it for no benefit, so we might as well stop

Yes there are comments like "yes just be more subtle but still promote the violence" in response to that, but I'm actually surprised that this level of comment made it up to number 2.

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The false equivalence there when the person tries to say you need to pick between landlords or pedos is crazy. Like yes i think people should moderate their "hatred" of pedos who don't act on their attractions and yes the status quo of rising rents are a blight on society. But the fact that they feel the need to jump to defending pedos for no reason is suspicious and also there's no attempt to differentiate between a landlord and a corporate landlord.

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Most likely they would be the worst type of scum landlord.

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The traditional concept is that diversity of opinions and ideas is what creates better problem solving. I'm not sure if this study actually looks at that part... But it's noteworthy that polite society has substituted in diversity of identity as the moral good to claim why companies need things like DEI. At the most charitable the argument is made that diverse identities bring in diverse ideas because the people all have different lives up until the point that they are hired for a project. In reality what tends to happen is the DEI type programs explicitly exclude diversity of opinions and ideas. They want to hire people with obscure racial, ethnic, sexual, or gender backgrounds but if you are a super "diverse" person applying for a job with a government agency & they check your social media history to find you've made some incredibly tame comments about thinking the US government should stop overthrowing every government on earth which tries to nationalize their natural resources... Then you are not getting that job. Same goes for any corporation like Google who will end up putting out an AI which refuses to show images of white people and actually creates black Nazis which is far more offensive than just showing the actual historically accurate information. Anyone who would have had diversity of opinions or ideas and who could have spotted the problem ahead of time was preselected as unhirable.

Basically I'm wondering if all of this diversity they are studying is overlooking the actual diversity which might change the data.

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Nothing gives off a vibe of femininity and professionalism like a spiderweb tattoo on your scalp in place of hair.

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I was thinking about how this stuff makes sense, once again, if you consider this more like a religion where the point is to repeat the mantras. It's almost like going in for confession and your advising committee asking for 3 hail Marys and then you get your confirmation.

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Your comment seems more antisemitic than anything a protester would say about BDS etc.

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So is the point of this article to doxx people who protest Israel?

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True, that was a crazy ruling as well.

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Nothing more lady like than referring to your "wrapped up pussy."

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JKR has always said she believes transgender people exist unless they've pushed here over the top of peak trans.

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"The defendants cannot expect that [this athlete] will countermand her social transition, her medical treatment, and all the work she has done with her schools, teachers, and coaches for nearly half her life by introducing herself to teammates, coaches, and even opponents as a boy," Judge Toby Heytens wrote in his decision

Judge is actually using a sunk cost fallacy in his ruling.

It's important to note that this ruling does not impact the West Virginia law – it only applies to the individual in this particular case, since the individual began transitioning in third grade, prior to hitting puberty. However, the ruling does potentially pave the way for other, similar cases.

Again, using sunk cost fallacy to create an exemption and since when can you make a ruling for a single person? This is like saying "well this person has been robbing banks for half his life so you can't expect him to give back the money now."

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I'm not even sure how it could be physically possible to do this based on anatomy. There's no actual way to insert a vagina under the penis due to the way it connects to the interior of the body.

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Just turned 18 too. Welcome to adult consequences as well.

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I'll have to start looking for this connection in the wild.

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