An instructor at the University of Oklahoma has been placed on leave after a student complained that she received a failing grade on a paper that cited the Bible to assert that the “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
Samantha Fulnecky, 20, filed a complaint with the administration, the latest flashpoint in the ongoing debate over academic freedom on college campuses amid Donald Trump’s push to end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and restrict how campuses discuss issues of race, gender and sexuality.
Fulnecky wrote that she was frustrated by the premise of the article because she doesn’t believe that there are more than two genders based on her understanding of the Bible, according to a copy of her essay provided to The Oklahoman.
In the recent ’ Original Constitutional Principles Affecting Culture’ event where the student Fulnecky discusss this, it stick out to me that she admits that the University directed her on how to file a grade appeal & file discrimination claim. She seemed upset that she wasn’t validated. I am a person that leans that the paper deserved a grade but not a passing one, it was terrible. You can read the comment from the TPUSA Faculty Advisor even they admit that much.
I find this so bizarre of a claim because MAGA rode a wave nearly a decade ago of fighting campus “Safe Spaces” and “Facts don’t care about your Feelings” yet this student is claiming that other groups and religions would have been given “validation” & “Compassion”.
Doubt the RW in my state of Oklahoma cares about any of that and just want to assault Public Education from k-12 & higher ed. Her claim is that she didn’t get an experience that Far-Right Christians & Republicans have purged from that very campus.
This has nothing to do about anything other than targeting the Instructor as well as setting up plans to defund public schools & all other aspects. OU is really going to hurt themselves caving to this mob and not defending the instructor.