Univ of Alabama suspends two student-run magazines - Alice & 1956 - due to Trump's DEI guidance

[Anonymous]

About time. Finally an administration that aligns with common sense and compassion.

After 4 years of nonsense, so happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These magazines should be allowed, as long as a pro white or pro male advocacy magazine would also be allowed.

Pro-white sounds like white supremacy. What does it mean in any other context? Pro-male? Men's health and issues is fine but not misogyny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:About time. Finally an administration that aligns with common sense and compassion.

After 4 years of nonsense, so happy.

MAGA trash

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These magazines should be allowed, as long as a pro white or pro male advocacy magazine would also be allowed.

Pro-white sounds like white supremacy. What does it mean in any other context? Pro-male? Men's health and issues is fine but not misogyny.

They are allowed. This goes to federal funding of same

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both publications were founded upon and furthered DEI.

DEI perpetuates racial divisions rather than fostering unity.

Further, the mandatory DEI training required at most universities has been shown to increase prejudice among participants, rather than ameliorating the problem.

Are you kidding me? Both magazines are open and accessible to be read by anyone. The topics just focus on issues of special interest to one community, but it's accessible to all if they have an interest in reading it.

It's no different than Vogue (women) or Essence (Black women) or GQ (men) - they are focused on the issues of most interest to special groups but can be read and purchased by anyone.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone else think it’s weird that this administration is obsessed with supposedly protecting women’s sports and women’s bathrooms but are shutting down a women’s magazine?

Maybe they should rename the magazine Pat and then have articles about makeup for both sexes and about how masculinity culture hurts men in fields like childcare, as well as how misogyny hurts women in heavy metal. Would that be better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both publications were founded upon and furthered DEI.

DEI perpetuates racial divisions rather than fostering unity.

Further, the mandatory DEI training required at most universities has been shown to increase prejudice among participants, rather than ameliorating the problem.

Klantastic!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both publications were founded upon and furthered DEI.

DEI perpetuates racial divisions rather than fostering unity.

Further, the mandatory DEI training required at most universities has been shown to increase prejudice among participants, rather than ameliorating the problem.

When I went to college, there were clubs and publications geared towards women, people of color, LBGT folks. But no one called it woke or DEI. MAGA is significantly more detrimental to higher ed than DEI ever was PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both publications were founded upon and furthered DEI.

DEI perpetuates racial divisions rather than fostering unity.

Further, the mandatory DEI training required at most universities has been shown to increase prejudice among participants, rather than ameliorating the problem.

Are you kidding me? Both magazines are open and accessible to be read by anyone. The topics just focus on issues of special interest to one community, but it's accessible to all if they have an interest in reading it.

It's no different than Vogue (women) or Essence (Black women) or GQ (men) - they are focused on the issues of most interest to special groups but can be read and purchased by anyone.

+1

[Anonymous]

Shut down the Christian journals as well

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On a related note, a teaching assistant for a U of Oklahoma psychology class was placed on leave after failing a student who wrote a Bible-based essay on gender.

https://apnews.com/article/university-oklahoma-gender-bible-essay-demonic-0fd51985c123737cd372ba609b730541

There is a reason Alabama and Oklahoma are looked down upon.

I read that paper. It was something like what a fifth grader would write. There is a theory she did it deliberately to play poor put-upon Christian victim.

She didn’t even cite the Bible. She just said something about the Bible says there are only two genders (which it does not, but I digress.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:About time. Finally an administration that aligns with common sense and compassion.

After 4 years of nonsense, so happy.

MAGA trash

These people hate America and everything it stands for. The J6 traitors should have been summarily executed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else think it’s weird that this administration is obsessed with supposedly protecting women’s sports and women’s bathrooms but are shutting down a women’s magazine?

Maybe they should rename the magazine Pat and then have articles about makeup for both sexes and about how masculinity culture hurts men in fields like childcare, as well as how misogyny hurts women in heavy metal. Would that be better?

No, they don’t give a shit about women’s sports. These are the same people who squawked about the end of the world when Title IX was being debated. They will sneer at the WNBA and female umpires.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On a related note, a teaching assistant for a U of Oklahoma psychology class was placed on leave after failing a student who wrote a Bible-based essay on gender.

https://apnews.com/article/university-oklahoma-gender-bible-essay-demonic-0fd51985c123737cd372ba609b730541

There is a reason Alabama and Oklahoma are looked down upon.

I read that paper. It was something like what a fifth grader would write. There is a theory she did it deliberately to play poor put-upon Christian victim.

She didn’t even cite the Bible. She just said something about the Bible says there are only two genders (which it does not, but I digress.)

The professor was strategically dumb to give her a zero. Should have given her like a 50% or something. The problem is that he or she probably gave other poorly researched and analyzed papers D- or something like that instead of zero.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even putting aside whether the Administration's anti-DEI policies are permissible with respect to university admissions, hiring, employment practices, etc. how is prohibiting certain speech not pure viewpoint discrimination?

They most likely criticize Israel at some point. It you question Israel you have no right of free speech. Wonder why the students were not expelled?