Kulturkampf

[benji]

In an article for the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, academics from Oregon State University wrote about their shock at receiving sarcasm and mockery in response to their research into undergraduate LGBTQ students studying in STEM fields.

The team claimed 50 of 349 responses to their questionnaire on the topic contained "slurs, hate speech, or direct targeting of the research team." Labeling them "malicious respondents," they adapted their project to examine how the joke responses "relate to engineering culture by framing them within larger social contexts — namely, the rise of online fascism."

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According to the article, when the "malicious" subjects were asked to fill out demographic data, "12 respondents (24%) indicated their gender as being related to a helicopter or aircraft" ranging from an "Apache Attack Helicopter" to a "V22 osprey." In the section declaring one’s disabilities, responses ranged from claiming to be "illiterate" to lamenting "My country is run by communists," or even declaring that identifying as transgender is a disability in itself due to "the inability to come to terms with biological reality."

One respondent claimed to identify as a gift card as their gender. Under racial and ethnic identities they said, "I’m an ethnic gift card," and for disability the answer was "I don’t have enough gift cards."

Other responses to questions about identity rejected the researchers’ project entirely, with answers such as "My skin color is not important," "Come on man, these questions are stupid. Everyone is a grab bag of genetics from all over the world," and "What else do you want to know? What I ate for breakfast. [T]his question is unnecessary."

"Online memes associated with white nationalist and fascist movements were present throughout the data, alongside memes and content referencing gaming and ‘nerd’ culture," the researchers further claimed.

The research team declared that the mockery they received "had a profound impact on morale and mental health," particularly for one transgender researcher who was "already in therapy for anxiety and depression regarding online anti-trans rhetoric." The paper claimed that "managing the study’s data collection caused significant personal distress, and time had to be taken off the project to heal from traumatic harm" of having to read students' responses in the survey.

The scholars concluded the "malicious responses" indicate that fascism has become a common ideology in engineering and computer science academia. They suggested the counter response should be "social justice STEM education" that includes "perspectives on online hate radicalization and center anti-colonial, intersectional solidarity organizing as its opposition."

The researchers appeared surprised that their own findings had been "ultimately rejected" by many academic journals, leaving them with the impression that their research decrying so-called fascism in academia is viewed by some as "irrelevant to engineering education, if not alarmist."

They claimed their research methods used "antifascist and trans/queer methodologies to transform the raw data" and "make effective interventions and transformations to our programs and institutions." They described "Anti-fascism" in particular as a framework that connects "contemporary fascist movements to the foundation of the U.S. as a racial project," noting elsewhere that "White supremacy" remains ubiquitous in the U.S.

Saying the solution for the rise of fascism is to change education itself, the team wrote, "The university at its most ideal can be envisioned as ‘a central site for revolutionary struggle, a site where we can work to educate for critical consciousness’ using ‘a pedagogy of liberation.'"

It was suggested the plight of transgender citizens be used as a teachable example of "experiences with power and oppression — and that categories such as race, gender, and sexuality have roots in European colonial logics shared by fascist movements."

Engineering in particular, they argued, is a critical field to teach their far-left ideology because such graduates "frequently work in fields such as fossil fuels, defense, construction, and technology upon graduation, and could be taught about these field’s relationships with national and global racial capitalism and ongoing apartheid in Palestine, as an example."

 

Fuck Faux News for not linking to this because it's amazing: https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/2/1-2/4/2769-2124_v2_i1-2_p67-94.pdf

[Nintex]

[Nintex]

All these stupid bitches(m/f) are gone

[HaughtyFrank]

 

Fuck Faux News for not linking to this because it's amazing: https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/2/1-2/4/2769-2124_v2_i1-2_p67-94.pdf

The research team declared that the mockery they received "had a profound impact on morale and mental health," particularly for one transgender researcher who was "already in therapy for anxiety and depression regarding online anti-trans rhetoric." The paper claimed that "managing the study’s data collection caused significant personal distress, and time had to be taken off the project to heal from traumatic harm" of having to read students' responses in the survey.

The send out surveys to teenagers and didn't expect at all that some would reply with mockery? Really?

[D3RANG3D]

[Nintex]

And once Palestine is free they'll drown the queers in the sea

[benji]

[BIONIC]

Stop stealing our jerbs

[Potato]

This is why people hate Americans.

[benji]

This is why people hate Americans.

Please post in an American accent on here. Thanks.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

This is why people hate Americans, y'all.

[HardcoreRetro]

Heheheheheehe, colour.

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH. I'm such a rebel.

[benji]

Heheheheheehe, colour.

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH. I'm such a rebel.

As soon as I fix the emote table and look into increasing the mobile text size just know that I'm going to turn on the warning system just to fix this deliberate attempt to put my life at risk.

[benji]

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[Nintex]

Don't worry the script will flip soon 

[HaughtyFrank]

I think the Snow White remake might cause an even bigger upset than the little mermaid

Most of all I just wonder why they're making a snow white movie if they don't want to tell the snow white story

[Nintex]

Gal Gadot is supposed to be the queen that's angry that Snow White is prettier than her 

Whomst of the 7 dwarves campaign interns is going to delete her emails and suicide all her friends?

[Nintex]

[Daft Hand]

What's the matter chud, upset that we've subverted the male gaze? I bet you wanted to jerk off to her didn't you? Well good luck with that, we're gonna fill this game with ugly bitches.

[benji]

Look what making movies that aren't popular children's brands is doing to us:

[benji]

I just wish white supremacy wasn't so powerful so that we could have blockbusters that tell the untold Japanese Empire side of the story.

[Polident]

Ignoring how utterly boring those people are, I will say it was really cool when Clint Eastwood made back to back Iwo Jima films. One from the American perspective and one from the Japanese side.

In 2023 if Nolan did something like that, they’d switch to whining about him appropriating Japanese history, and he has a white savior complex.

[Uncle]

not being a mortal kombat fan, I googled tanya to see what was lost





fuck, man

[Potato]

 Sexy costumes in my fighting game

 Racist African stereotypes in my fighting game

[HaughtyFrank]

Supposedly this is the real life model whose face they scanned. (nothing official but she has Mortal Kombat stuff tagged on her instagram)

https://testyourmight.com/threads/mortal-kombat-1-tanya-face-model-found-sydney-cross.74618/







I get this feeling that devs just scan the faces and just think that's a perfect resemblance without making any adjustments. (or they take the scan and then ugly it up) Like I don't know, maybe it's the lighting or a shit scan or whatever but they gave her those really pronounced cheeks while the real model has none of those.

[PhoenixDark]

So Barbie is a smash hit but Ben Shapiro and others keep crying about it. I thought woke films don't work.


In all seriousness tho, it sounds like it's actually good. And it sounds like Oppenheimer is good. Hope Disney is taking notes...lol.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

You must have missed The Mothers tralier.

[Nintex]

So Barbie is a smash hit but Ben Shapiro and others keep crying about it. I thought woke films don't work.


In all seriousness tho, it sounds like it's actually good. And it sounds like Oppenheimer is good. Hope Disney is taking notes...lol.

Disney is putting up the 'for sale' sign in their yard.

I already wondered why Bob Iger returned from retirement but the board just needed a trustworthy face and experienced business man to trim the fat and close the deal.

[PhoenixDark]

So Barbie is a smash hit but Ben Shapiro and others keep crying about it. I thought woke films don't work.


In all seriousness tho, it sounds like it's actually good. And it sounds like Oppenheimer is good. Hope Disney is taking notes...lol.

Disney is putting up the 'for sale' sign in their yard.

I already wondered why Bob Iger returned from retirement but the board just needed a trustworthy face and experienced business man to trim the fat and close the deal.

Apple...

I'd imagine Iger will try to avoid that for as long as he can but the titanic fuck up that is Disney+ makes it rough.

[Uncle]

what makes barbie a woke movie?

are they like "ken is trans now and that's ok, please call her kenja?"