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Today’s blacklisted American: Student blackballed for saying “a man is a man, a woman is a woman”

They’re coming for you next: The “Education” department for one of New York’s state universities has suspended a student from its program because he had the nerve to simply say in public that “A man is a man, a woman is a woman. A man is not a woman and a woman is not a man.”

“After review of all available materials, I find that, based on your continued public stance and social media presence, you do not consistently demonstrate behaviors required by the Conceptual Framework of the School of Education,” the Dean of the School of Education wrote in an email to Stevens.

The university claims that Stevens violated the school’s inclusivity doctrine, which requires teachers to foster “a diverse campus community marked by mutual respect for the unique talents and contributions of each individual.”

The Dean also insinuated that future teachers are required to support all aspects of homosexuality and gender identity. … The Dean told Stevens that his scientific stance on biology is “in conflict” with the state’s Dignity for All Students Act. “You continue to maintain, ‘I do not recognize the gender that they claim to be if they are not biologically that gender,’” the Dean said. “This public position is in conflict with the Dignity for All Students Act requiring teachers to maintain a classroom environment protecting the mental and emotional well-being of all students.”

In other words, no student in this university education program is allowed to publicly state some common basic facts about life, humanity, and biology. We must make believe we believe in falsehoods simply because others demand we do so. If what you say contradicts the beliefs of these bullies you must be blacklisted, blackballed, canceled, and destroyed.

Worse, can you imagine the incompetent educators that are going to come out of this program? Do you want these people teaching your children?

Not only has the student received threats of violence from others because of his stance, the university’s president, Denise Battles, also blasted him in a university-wide email. She claimed,

“There are clear legal limitations to what a public university can do in response to objectionable speech,” the president wrote. “As a result, there are few tools at our disposal to reduce the pain that such speech may cause.”

It is not there job to “reduce the pain” some speech might cause in others. That’s what freedom of speech is all about, protecting offensive speech so that society can absorb all sides of a debate.

Battles’ position also shows that she is taking sides. Her goal is entirely focused on protecting leftists and sexual deviants from hearing anything they might not agree with and which thus might offend their delicate self-images. She cares not at all about the pain inflicted on this student. He doesn’t rate a safe space ever.

Finally, Battles and the university have clearly decided to violate the legal limitations placed on them by the first amendment, despite what she claims. Their actions to punish this student for his legally-protected speech make them very vulnerable to a major lawsuit, one that they are likely to lose.

More important, why is anyone going to such a school? You not only won’t learn anything useful, you will be taught many things that are false and harmful.

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20 comments

  • Skunk Bucket

    DON’T HURT MY FEEWINGS!!!!
    What a bunch of crybullies.

  • JohonB

    I guess they will have to change the beginning of the old Ben Casey TV show if they ever rebroadcast it.

  • foxbat

    Oh, the pain !!!!

    Dr. Smith

  • David K

    The university system essentially has a monopoly on testing. If a small business wants to give someone an IQ test before hiring them, it is illegal. If a university (or the military) wants to do it, it is legal. Get rid of that rule and way fewer people will need to go through the current university system.

  • James Street

    Meanwhile

    China declares homosexuality a mental illness
    https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/gender-diversity/article/3123549/homosexuality-can-be-called-mental-disorder

    The godless Chicom commies are one of the main actors behind the thuggery to attempt to destroy Western culture, in coordination with the swamp.

  • wayne

    “Absurdistan The Music Video”
    Hoppewave
    https://youtu.be/x15LTalV1b0
    4:33

  • wayne

    The Killing Fields (1984)
    “Reeducation”
    https://youtu.be/xhf6K9_ort4
    1:34

  • James Street

    Yep Chris, that’s a page right out of the godless Chicom commie and looney left’s playbook: go into America’s past for examples to rationalize their behavior today.

    In the DSM-2 that was called the “whiney six-year-old syndrome”.

  • commodude

    James, the left derides that as “whataboutism.” Rational human beings consider it valid comparisons of equal situations.

  • Cotour

    I sent my email of the other day: THE MANAGED PRESIDENCY OF NO SHOW JOE to a friend.

    And he is on the border, he is a Federal employee, (D), he replies: “Not worried. Politics is not a spectator sport. Only the players win.”

    My reply to him:

    “Touché, and I raise you, Venezuela.

    I will title this picture below of those “players” in that country, “WINNERS!”

    That is what you are selling?

    Our country is in a political cycle where primarily the Leftists within the Democrat party have figured out a political psychological method of selling their anti America anti Constitution propaganda to the lily white, indoctrinated, self hating millennial and other minorities and are making their move to acquire real power in government. And those RINO’s in the Republican party are too weak or are just too stupid or scared to properly understand what they are allowing.

    The people of Venezuela would I am certain disagree strongly with your simplified version of what is in fact being attempted. Awaken my friend.

    Hope all is well with you.

    https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fth.bing.com%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.eSUxW8ERBogWeBLVXsCRrAHaE7%3Fw%3D241%26h%3D180%26c%3D7%26o%3D5%26dpr%3D1.25%26pid%3D1.7&t=1614957280&ymreqid=dc7face7-d905-7706-2f76-6d00c4013500&sig=z3ycYp.u2Y1GjxWdTQ0ewA–~D

  • Cotour

    I NEVER REALLY LIKED BILL O’REILLY

    I personally over the years never really liked, Bill O’Reilly. He IMO is an acquired taste. Too confident? Too arrogant? Too much uncomfortable objectivity? I don’t know.

    But after spending some time listening to him I more recently learned to more respect his opinion. I know he has an extreme amount of experience, 40 plus years, in objectively gathering and reporting the news. Both human interest and politics. And I know he has been all over the world and has observed and reported on just about everything under the sun. And he is one of the most successful authors in America with his, “Killing” series of books. But that is not what this is about.

    Bill O’Reilly, who I am warming up to and who’s opinion I have learned to respect has come to a conclusion about president, Joe Biden and his administration. And his opinion, as you probably understand my opinion on the same subject, perfectly coincide.

    PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IS DANGEROUS!

    He is a Potemkin president, run by his Leftist handlers within the White House and is there to fulfill their Leftist wish list of political domination in perpetuity. Its a power thing that comes as a bonus, complete with Socialism.

    https://youtu.be/hAb4K3FfQ6k

    Your tired of hearing my opinion on the subject of Joe Biden (D) and his installation by the Democrat leadership political machine in the more than questionable 2020 presidential election? Well now you can hear Mr. O’Reilly’s opinion on the subject. We are one on this and I have found out on many other issues in the news as I now listen to him @ 9PM on his 77 WABC AM radio show.

    “Please sir, may I have some more?”

  • Greg the Geologist

    Whatever happened to “Follow the Science”? Oh, right . . .

  • wayne

    Bill O’Reilly:
    “We’ll do it live”
    https://youtu.be/V1M6EYA14eU
    1:32

  • wayne

    Buffalo Springfield –
    For What It’s Worth (1967)
    https://youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY
    2:37

    “Paranoia strikes deep,
    Into your life it will creep.
    It starts when you’re always afraid,
    Step out of line, the men come and take you away…”

  • Cotour

    Wayne, that is classic (Cracking up!), maybe that hot head energy is why I have not liked him in the past?

    He seems to have mellowed with age and is more accessible and reasonable, I can take him now.

    I emailed him that piece and his people replied to me that they would get it to him, it would be interesting if he chose read it live tonight on his show.

    Stay tuned.

  • wayne

    Cotour–
    Rush called him “the O’Baxter Factor.” (hilarious!)
    I do try and catch his Friday appearance on the Glenn Beck Show
    (He appears to be (sorta) ‘rehabilitating’ himself, slowly but surely, sorta like Dick Morris after that whole ‘incident.’ )

    “We’ll do it live”
    The family guy cut
    https://youtu.be/To3sgDbwVvw
    0:54
    [->adult language<-]

  • Edward

    If a man is not a man and a woman is not a woman, then what are they? The article failed to explain this mystery.

    If a man declares himself to be a woman, does the school then declare him to not really be a woman because a woman is not a woman?

    From the article:

    The university claims that Stevens violated the school’s inclusivity doctrine, which requires teachers to foster “a diverse campus community marked by mutual respect for the unique talents and contributions of each individual.”

    Except they don’t seem to be willing to be inclusive of these alternative ideas, don’t respect Stevens’s unique talents or individual contribution.

    After all, the university is inclusive of those who have threatened the student, because they have not condemned them.

  • Avocation Aviator

    When do the massive lawsuits over federally funded anti-1st amendment university actions start? Yes, almost every, single university out there uses federally funded education via student loans. That is a subsidy because you cannot get even close to that interest rate for education in the private market. The jurisdiction seems to me to covered under the interstate commerce clause.

    I would love an ambulance chasing attorney to take it on…the payoff would be HUGE and benefit to America important.

    What is the compounded lost income of a year delay in education while that person readjusts his life to recover? Lost income valued at (my quick calcs) a $60,000 annual income compounded over a 40 year career plus treble damages: $3,650,000 x 3. That is a $12million lawsuit Mr attorney. Win three of those and you can retire knowing you did something good for America and your client.

    Gauntlet thrown down.

  • wayne

    Mark Levin talks Bill O’Reilly
    (2012-ish)
    https://youtu.be/tiuo4n29hzA
    7:24
    (an Epic Rant!)

  • Rad4Cap

    “There are FOUR lights!”

  • Observer

    China has the right idea. Homosexuality is clearly a disorder.

    As inhumane and evil China is, at least they aren’t making it de rigeur to punish normal, healthy people for normal, healthy, Life-affirming beliefs and behaviors. What this kid said is common-sense. Literally everyone who objects to it needs to be put into a mental institution.

    The Left has been using the ideas of pedophiles like John Money to persecute normal people for a long time.
    The Occupied West deserves to fail since its ruling class tries to defy God/Nature.

  • wayne

    When Victimhood Leads to Genocide
    Prof. Jordan Peterson on Dekulakization
    [excerpted from Maps of Meaning lecture 4 Marionettes & Individuals]
    https://youtu.be/DeYRK16PIlA
    7:10

  • Cotour

    “SERVITIZATION”, AND YOUR A DEMOCRAT? HISTORY IS PROLOGUE

    Where does the, Joe Biden for president (D) campaign term, “Build Back Better” and terms like, “The Great Reset” originate from? These are terms crafted by those at the World Economic Forum, lead by one, Klaus Shwab and the likes of the pompous environmental phony, John Kerry (D).

    https://youtu.be/GUJMj6xQ6Ew 6 min.

    Sky News Australia on the current push for Global Socialism and the selling of “Servitization”, which translates into your entire life will be managed for you by a group of centralized elites , and, “You will own nothing, and you will be happy”. All on schedule for 2030, Just 9 years from today. And they are serious.

    Everything that you are witness to that just feels like its too much and irrational and un American going on in the Democrat controlled Congress, Democrat controlled Senate and Democrat controlled presidency is entirely focused on manifesting this dream. You will be a Socialist and much worse if they are allowed to proceed unopposed. This is why no matter what, by hook or by crook, Trump had to go.

    And this is the man that is driving the bus at the World Economic Forum who along with his fellows will own what you will no longer own, Klaus Shwab. And of course Mr. Shwab, he is an elite intellectual, and of course he is from Germany. Where else do plans for world domination come from? Your goose is cooked America and by extension the world if you continue to allow the Democrat party in its current configuration and current possession of political power driven insanity to continue.

    And this is no rant, just a wake up call. I did not make any of this stuff up, they are telling you exactly what they intend for you.
    Look at this guy, Klaus Shwab, he is dead serious. Just give him some long fingernails and a kitty to pet and what do you have? And I’m crazy?

    https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fth.bing.com%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.tVBzcdyU0VnAE7AqkD783gAAAA%3Fw%3D178%26h%3D180%26c%3D7%26o%3D5%26dpr%3D1.25%26pid%3D1.7&t=1615137250&ymreqid=dc7face7-d905-7706-2f76-6d0718013500&sig=8eSQjXO5P2SA5tX3MhcJLA–~D

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