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Ute Heggen's avatar

I suggest, in any discussions of the transgender diagnosis, that the abusive animal studies funded by the NIH be brought up as facts you can't ignore. My post has the history of Premarin, a now out-of-favor exogenous estrogen, which is derived from Pregnant Mare Urine. You'll like this one, Professor! Male monkeys were given estrogen and possibly had surgeries, then the level of HIV transmission examined. Oops! HIV is Human Immuno-deficiency Virus and not Primate IV, monkeys do not get it. There's more, here's the link:

uteheggen.substack.com

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Peter Boghossian's avatar

100%

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Frederick Roth's avatar

The entire existence of politics on-campus altogether is the problem... never mind conducting the discourse appropriately. The purpose of educational institutions is accumulating knowledge and disseminating it, also acting as repositories of cultural record.

Since the generation of '68 the institutions have been co-opted to instead be rookeries of political activists who get paid for basically generating ideology rather than engaging on good-faith research, and proselytising that ideology instead of teaching. The Humanities need a complete cleanout of material whose validity is based on nothing more that "I reckon..." of the author (supported by citations of "I reckons" of others). Descriptive and prescriptive require complete separation.

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Anne B's avatar

Very good, very clear. What you describe sounds like my college education in the South in the 70s.

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Elizabeth Smoots's avatar

"Activism is a protected right."

Yes and no. The First Amendment only protects peaceful protests. Activism that breaks laws, blocks bridges and traffic, and that is violent or not peaceful is not protected. Unpeaceful activism is illegal.

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Col Edward H R Green's avatar

And contrary to too many people's ignorant and emotive presumptions, and unconstitutional laws, the First Amendment protects hateful and threatening speech, as well as other controversial, provocative speech, but not to the physically violent implementation of that speech, for speech alone has no inherent power to control people's minds and bodies. The causal connection between speech and physical action is one's faculty of volition, which speech has no inherent power to override.

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Larry Popwell's avatar

Rarely.

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