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- [00:00]
Ira
Foreign. State is really insane, okay? There's a lot of great things about it. But for almost 20 years now, they have had a Republican governor, Republican House, Republican Senate, Republican Supreme Court. So anybody in Oklahoma, you don't like the path that your life is going, you have no one to blame except for a Republican, Republican super majorities. And the stupidity and ignorance trickles down from the governor who dedicated every square inch of the state to Jesus Christ. And after these said dedications, our state ranking continues to plummet after the blessing and dedication and the electorate gets dumber and dumber and dumber and you have a basic Christian nationalist state. And here is the type of person that the state of Oklahoma is producing. There's a student. Pop this up. There's a OU student, University of Oklahoma, and she wrote a an assignment about gender, all right? And basically she has a transgender professor. And she writes an entire essay and doesn't quote any sort of evidence, only her opinion about the Bible. And then she gets an F, as she should have. She failed her assignment. And then she cries to Turning Point USA because her professor is trans. And of course they completely lap it up. And so the Turning Point usaou puts out a post and says for a psychology course at the University of Oklahoma, Samantha Folnicke was asked to write a 650 word essay reacting to an article about how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender. Dr. Karine Carr responds to this Turning Point says, everybody's jumping on the prose, but as a piece of scientific writing, the reasoning level of the essay is extremely bad too. So her essay ends up getting published. These are some of the sentences from this failed OU student. She writes, women naturally want to do things because God has created us with those womanly desires in our hearts. And Dr. Karim Kahr says a sentence like this is circular and literally means nothing. Imagine going to Wikipedia to learn about cats, only for the cat behavior section to read. Cats want to do cat things because God has created them with catly desires in their heart. Her whole entire essay reads like this. All of it reads like this. This is a religious fanatic. This girl has been indoctrinated by her parents. Probably went to some B school or a Oklahoma public school where now you can have the ten Commandments trump Bibles, all of this, and they're continuing to enable her stupidity. This is a complete embarrassment for this girl, for her family, for anybody who taught her anything prior to this.
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Kyle
Well, but in her family and by Turning Point USA logic, she's a hero because she's going up against the norm. But here's the deal. In a scientific paper, if you don't quote, quote empirical sources, it's just your opinion. And you would get flunked on that even if you said if you use like any other source, like the Quran or whatever it is, it's embarrassing for the University of Oklahoma.
- [03:46]
Ira
Okay, so here is some more analysis on her essay. There are no citations from the Bible, no references to past theological works, no supporting scholarly interpretations of any relevant passages, no definitions of concepts like gender, examples, and relies on personal opinion. And then this girl asked, Turning Point, is anyone at your organization literate? And I would say the answer to that is no. Turning Point USA is a disaster. You've got their whole thing before Charlie Kirk was murdered is to go onto college campuses and find professors that they believe are teaching facts and put them on a list and torture them. And so this whole thing, this girl, whatever her name is, that wrote this is so humiliating for her. The professor responds to the girl, and here is what the professor writes as to why she made an F. And I want to note that Turning Point USA screenshots the professor's response and puts trans professors comment, okay, they want to bully this professor and demean her and say she's less intelligent because she's trans, which is utter. And so the professor says, please note that I am not deducting points because you have certain beliefs, but instead I'm deducting point for you. Posting a reaction paper that does not answer the questions for this assignment contradicts itself heavily, uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive. While you are entitled to your own personal beliefs, there is an appropriate time or place to implement them in your reflections. I encourage all students to question or challenge the course material with other empirical findings or testable hypotheses. But using your own personal beliefs to argue against the findings of not only this article, but the findings of countless articles across psychology, biology, sociology, etc, is not best pract. This professor goes on and gives example after example, gives a very spirited response as to why she failed because she thinks the Bible is literal. And you guys, she says in this, she says that God didn't want Adam to be lonely, so he created Eve. And she refers to women as the helper. She should get an F. She should get an F. She should absolutely get an F. And I'm shocked that she even made it into college. But here's where this gets so devastating. All right, she's a nut. She got an F. She should have Gotten an F, of course. Turning Point usa, who doesn't give a shit about people, only cares about keeping people dumb and knocked up so that they can have, you know, their white nationalist jizz fest. All right? That's all they care about. The universities have got to start standing up to Donald Trump and the University of Oklahoma. Their response to this is so devastating, so moronic, so cowardice, I can't hardly even take it. Kylie, pop this up. The University of Oklahoma has a response to this whole thing. The University of Oklahoma takes seriously concerns involving First Amendment rights, certainly including religious freedoms. Upon receiving notice from the student on the grading of an assignment, the university immediately began a full review of the situation and has acted swiftly to address the matter. First, the college acted immediately to address the academic issue raised by the student. College leaders contacted her on the day of her letter, was received and have maintained regular communication throughout the process. As previously stated, a formal grade appeals process was conducted. The process resulted in steps to ensure no academic harm to the student from the graded assignment. Second, the student reported filing a claim of illegal discrimination based on religious beliefs to the appropriate university office. OU has a clear process for reviewing such claims and it has been activated. The graduate student instructor has been placed on administrative leave pending the finalization of this process. To ensure fairness in the process, a full time professor is serving as the course instructor for the remainder of the semester. OU remains firmly committed to fairness, respect and protecting every student's right to express sincerely held religious beliefs.
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Kyle
Okay, I went to the University of Oklahoma. Your religious beliefs have no place in a science classroom. Like you get to have them all day long. I am embarrassed that they did this. They should have said you did not give the appropriate requirements for this assignment. I'm sorry.
- [09:03]
Ira
I'm sorry you feel like it's a violation, but you have to follow the.
- [09:06]
Kyle
Rules that in this class for the assignment, swing for the fences on your religious beliefs. It is devastating to me because now everybody at the University of Oklahoma is viewed in the lens of netballs that you know, as long as you cite religion and religious discrimination even though you failed an assignment based on the assignment requirements.
- [09:28]
Ira
It's a joke.
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Kyle
The whole thing is a joke.
- [09:30]
Ira
They just tanked any credibility that the University of Oklahoma would have as being a serious university. Joe Harris is a friend of mine, is the president of the University of Oklahoma. I like him and I respect him. This is an absolute fumble. You just took any credibility that the University of Oklahoma has, Joe, and you wadded it up and you put it in the trash can. With Liberty University, not everything in the state of Oklahoma has to be a heaping pile of dog shit. It just, just doesn't have to be. You can have people in that state that stand up for facts, right? For following rules, for following instructions. But for this girl to come up with this worldview and for nobody along the way to say, these are opinions not supported by evidence. And when you get to a school like the University of Oklahoma, we are evidence and fact based. It is abuse. It is institutionalized codependency and abuse to this student. And it's further brand damaging to our state. It is so horrible that the university put this professor who wrote a very thoughtful and mindful response as to why this girl got an F and expelled it out for her. That is the tough love that sadly has to happen for so many kids that grow up in Oklahoma who get completely indoctrinated and radicalized into this crazy, crazy Christian, white, Christian evangelicalism, and then they get out in the real, real world. And that's where professors, this professor very empathetically told this young lady, you, you can have these opinions. Those are fine. I challenge you to challenge the article, but you have to do it with empirical evidence. For the university to act like somehow this is religious discrimination is insane. I challenge every student at the University of Oklahoma, all at the same time, to read the book of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and then write your responses to any assignment regarding this and then claim religious discrimination or write a response from a satanic book and then claim religious discrimination. It is going to take the students at the University of Oklahoma en masse, responding appropriately because, Joe Harris, you're my friend, I love you. We play cardio tennis together when I'm in okc. This is an L. This is a fumble. This is embarrassing. The girl deserved an F. And you should stand with your trans professor. And whether she's trans or not is irrelevant. The professor was mindful, thoughtful, and actually provided this young girl with a, an assist to help her with everyday life. And I imagine if this girl hadn't gone to Turning Point USA and had gone to the professor and said, this is all I've ever been taught in my life. Can I have another crack at the assignment? I imagine that she probably would have gotten that. And so this is just such a mess by the University of Oklahoma, by the Board of Regents at that school, and I implore every student at the University of Oklahoma go find Greek mythology, Satanism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and start writing everything based on those books and everybody get an F. And Then everybody claim, send it to Turning Point usa, send it to the Board of Regents, send it to Joe Harris and claim religious discrimination. This is not a precedent that can be sustained. And in fact, I believe that you are piling on to the abuse, the religious abuse that that young girl has suffered her whole life. And at some point, somebody needs to sit down and tell her the truth. At some point, somebody needs to tell the girl the truth. And if universities aren't going to do it, then who is? You guys, I recently upgraded my entire security system and I went with Simplisafe because the number one reason is it's proactive. Traditional systems react after the break in. Simplisafe can help stop a crime before it starts. That's because SimpliSafe keeps your home safe with a double layer of defense. First, AI cameras detect potential threats, and then live agents confront them while they're still outside your home before they've had a chance to damage, telling them they're on camera and that the police will be dispatched if they don't leave because real security stops crime before it starts. Listener right now. Now it's such a good time to get simply safe. This month, only get 50% off any new system. Go to SimpliSafe.com ihip Again, SimpliSafe.com ihip There's no safe like SimpliSafe.
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Ira
And then finally, I want to leave you all with this is the problem. And this is why organizations like Turning Point USA are so focused and hyper focused on universities. Pop this up. Professors are Democrats. All right, and here you have the list of 5,116 surveyed professors. And as you can see, they are overtly liberal, overtly democratic. And this is because facts have a liberal bias, period. The Bible and its conservatism and women being helpers and God making women out of a rib in the Garden of Eden is it did not happen. And you have to tell these kids the truth. You have to say, you can believe that, but you can't prove that. And here's what we can prove. And this is the way science works. And this is why you have access to health care that we know works because of research and the valuing effects. So this girl, her parents let her down, her church let her down, her high school let her down, her peers let her down. The only good example in this girl's life thus far has been that professor. She's the only person that actually offered to help this girl have a snowball's chance in hell at being a normal person and having a normal life. The University of Oklahoma should have had that professor's back. Shame on them. That is so devastating. And you're just going to go the ways of being a laughingstock that everybody thinks that state is. And it makes me so sad because there's so many great blue dots, there's so many great purple dots in that state that see the insanity. And the University of Oklahoma, you totally fumbled the bag on this well, and.
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Kyle
You look at it. If this professor was a biological white male, would this death step have occurred? Or is this singled out because the professor is trans? And I agree with you. Had this been from Hinduism, Buddhism, we wouldn't be talking about this. Because Turning Point USA doesn't give a about religious freedom. They care about Christian freedom. And I agree, the University of Oklahoma cannot keep this precedent going. They cannot.
- [17:34]
Ira
Well, and they think I will say that even I think if it was a white male professor, the same thing still would have happened. Because these people claim while they are the oppressors, while they are weaponizing their faith to erode civil liberties, humanity and personhood from other people, any sort of criticism of, of religion, of Christianity, these people have stage five meltdowns. And honestly, that's the sign of a cult. If you cannot apply critical thinking to group think without getting all, you know, nanny's in a water ballot, you're in a cult. And so white evangelical Christianity, from my experience growing up around it, seems to be focused on one thing. Controlling sex. You have this little girl, this OU student. I guarantee you one of her biggest things in life is being a virgin, not being a good person, not helping the poor, not helping the sick, not understanding how to be a better citizen in a community that cooperates and compromises. It is her virginity that is the thing that they teach them. And that's why they're so wound up about the genitals of that professor. That's why they're so wound up about gay people doing gay stuff, because they are the part that. It is a cult. White Christian evangelicalism is a cult that has massive sexual damage, that wants to control the sex lives of everybody surrounding them. And we're all getting sucked down with them. And it just makes me so mad that our home state in the University of Oklahoma is caving to Turning Point usa, a racist, white supremacist, anti education organization, that you are giving them more power than what you know is right. And that is just so devastating. And one of the offshoots of this capitulation, mass capitulation to these ignorant fascists. And if our institutions do not hold up, this is going to be generations of. Generations of generations of mean dipshits. And that poor girl who thinks she's a helper. University of Oklahoma, do you think you're helping her? No, you just damaged her even more. And you should have been a stop for her. Somebody should have pulled her aside and explained to her as an adult, this is not the way it works. You can believe it, but there's no proof that you're a man's, quote, helper. All right, that's all we have for this episode. Buy our book. Life is a Lazy Susan of shit Sandwiches. Subscribe like, leave us a comment. We'll be back later with more news.