Middlebury College Prof Claims Trump is Forcing Her to Teach ‘Lies’ About Gender
“This is akin to comparing apples to a lone kumquat.”
This is one area of academia that the left will cling to with their last dying breath. They will not give this up without a fight.
The College Fix reports:
Middlebury professor says Trump is forcing her to teach ‘lies’ about ‘gender’
A professor at Middlebury College accused President Donald Trump of forcing gender studies scholars to teach “lies about the body, culture and history” to their students.
Writing recently at Ms. Magazine, Professor Laurie Essig said “authoritarian” leaders like Trump “always come for gender studies first” in what she described as an effort to control education and knowledge.
Essig, who teaches gender studies at the private Vermont college, said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban are other examples.
But Trump and other Republican leaders in the U.S. are being more strategic by linking gender studies degrees to career earnings, she said.
“By transforming the far right’s ‘war on gender’ into return on investment, the Trump regime can avoid the deeper question of whether knowledge should be controlled by politicians,” she wrote.
Through his executive orders, Trump also “would force gender studies to become ‘sex studies’ and teach a series of lies about the body, culture and history,” she wrote.
One order, which Trump signed in January, states that there are “two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality. ”
Along with Trump, Essig also criticized Florida leaders. She brought up a review commissioned by its Board of Governors to review university women’s and gender studies programs to determine if they are a good return on investment.
Essig said it’s unfair to compare gender studies to programs like engineering or nursing, writing:
This is akin to comparing apples to a lone kumquat. After all, gender studies—like humanities in general—is not created to produce specialists, as much as it is meant to teach individuals to read carefully, think deeply, write proficiently and pose thoughtful questions.
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Prof Essig, in the linked article, declares that “Scientific evidence shows that sex is far more complicated than a strict binary—for example, people with intersex conditions. Trump’s [Executive Order] would force those of us who teach gender studies to ignore the expertise of our own field.” Perhaps Prof Essig should take an elementary biology class to learn that for humans (and all other mammals) individuals have the physiology and plumbing to produce only one of two gametes, sperm or eggs. That is we are sexually dimorphic or binary if you will. In regards to ignoring the “expertise of our own field’, have some compassion for those Eugenic experts of old whose “expertise” was no longer marketable. Science advances through a process of conjecture and criticism. You may follow your conjecture about “gender” as did the Eugenics theorists until the criticisms overwhelm. And then one finds a different conjecture to pursue.
proving
lefty is at war with freedom
stop taking any tax money
and preach what you want
but lefty/rinos demand that the tax payers foot the bills
We’re sick and tired of listening to you unicorn-boinkers whine.
Just find a quiet corner and eat your own kumquat.
Translation: If we have to keep teaching this way eventually someone is going to realize that I have no actual skills or knowledge and I am going to lose my awesome job where I don’t have to do anything real.
Professor Laurie Essig: Living proof that there is no idea so stupid, expensive, or downright evil that an academic somewhere won’t buy into it.
Essig’s problem is she’s actually being told to teach the truth, and throwing a tantrum fit to put a toddler to shame.
Why doesn’t Middlebury stick to teaching foreign languages and the correct use of femnine/masculine pronouns and articles in those languages?
“Essig” is German for “Vinegar” Aptly named, I’d say.
Communist tools, like Essig, “always come for the children first”.
gender studies scholars
Oxymoron for morons!