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"If this becomes a pattern — the Trump administration threatens to withhold funding to institutions that don’t match its position on culture war issues — this would speak volumes about the state of America’s colleges and universities. They say they’re graduating irreverent rebels who are ready to change society. Yet they’re willing to bend to the will of the president?
One way for universities to stand on principle would be to tap into their endowments. Elite colleges are sitting on massive pots of money.
In Penn’s case, that endowment is about $22 billion.
In Columbia’s case, that endowment is nearly $15 billion.
These funds could easily be used to buttress any federal funding that the administration is using as leverage over these schools. They don’t have to simply comply. They have more than enough money to weather the storm for four years.
Does that mean that there are no legitimate debates about transgender athletes or protests over the Middle East conflict? Absolutely not. I think both of these highly contentious issues have plenty of nuance to them.
But if these colleges and universities decide to let the threat of federal funding decide these debates for them, it would prove that they’re far from the bold, reformist institutions they portray themselves as. They’re just a bunch of conformists, worried about their prestige and paychecks, after all."
https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/if-elite-universities-really-oppose
The American Saga · If Elite Universities Really Oppose Trump's Crackdowns, They Should Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are
Various #University #professors investigate the phenomenon of rising #aggression and #violence at #theatres and #music events in #Britain and the effects of changing #social values / #CultureWar although these problems have plagued "lower end" music events for decades (more so when #alcohol and #drugs reduce inhibitions) - its why we have had #bouncers at #nightclubs and #raves for years
BBC NewsWhat's behind an apparent rise in abuse by theatre audiences?Academics say cultural changes are partly to blame for a spate of recent disturbances in theatre shows.
[thread 3/x] Transphobia
[thread 2/x] https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113448330077621809
[parent 1/x] https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113126756218775408
#GOP #Trump2 #fascism #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #OpusDei #ParentalRightsMovement #populism #CultureWar
#DivisiveRhetoric #SocialMedia #memes #polarization #WedgeTactics #WedgeStrategy
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#WeaponizationOfLanguate #transgenderism
#FamilyResearchCouncil #FRC #HeritageFoundation #LibsOfTikTok #MomsForLiberty #AcPEDs
#WomensRights #misogyny #SelfDetermination
MastodonVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ (@persagen@mastodon.social)[thread 2/x] transphobia
3/x https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113873070027605000
1/x https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113126756218775408
State of transphobia, U.S. ~2022
* waves of anti-trans state legislature model bills
* Ron DeSantis' viciously transphobic campaigns ...
https://persagen.org/html/intro_01.html
https://persagen.org/html/intro_01.html#/23
https://persagen.org/html/intro_01.html#/32
#GOP #Trump2 #fascism #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #ParentalRightsMovement
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#FamilyResearchCouncil #LibsOfTikTok #MomsForLiberty #AcPEDs
#WomensRights #misogyny
The #Good, The #Bad, The #Ugly: What #Trans #Folks Can Look Forward To In 2025 in #Australia
While efforts to spark a #culturewar over #trans #issues have largely #fizzled in a #costofliving and #climate #crisis, #antitrans #Extremists remain #determined to push their #agenda.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Australia #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups
Ben Shapiro’s Audience Angrily REVOLTS Against His “Left vs Right” Framing of UHC CEO Hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFLTAsksSRw
Ben Shapiro tried his very best to turn his coverage of the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s hit into an attack on the left, but his audience just wasn’t buying it…
Apparently, the *inc*ls are starting to wake up.
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"The MAGA playbook will remain the same: dividing, conquering, and pitting one group against another. It’s a terrible way to run the country, but as Trump just demonstrated, it’s still an effective way to win elections."
#Democrats #Republicans #WorkingClass #race #gender #CultureWar #immigrants #misogyny #trans
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"Trump kept his coalition together by stoking shared grievances. In this way, his presidential bid represented a type of inverted identity politics. He didn’t campaign on making life better for certain identity groups. He campaigned by mobilizing people against ones they loathe and fear."
~ Anna Gifty
#Democrats #Republicans #WorkingClass #race #gender #CultureWar #immigrants #misogyny #trans
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Public Notice · Trump ran on identity politics and won
#CultureWar #Battles rock a #School #Panel in #Liberal #Manhattan as #hatemongers vie for Power in a Powerless System
An #auditorium full of #people #TurnedTheirBacks and #hummed to #drownout the #antitrans #protesters with a #defiant #rendition of “#ThisLittleLightofMine”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewYork #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/nyregion/maud-maron-transgender-nyc-school-council.html
The New York Times · A Culture-War Battle Convulses a School Panel in Liberal Manhattan
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Is the #Corrupt #US #SupremeCourt about to let #redstates #ban #HormoneReplacementTherapy for #transgender #teens?
The #conservative #SupremeCourt is poised to leap into another #culturewar #battle between #redstates and #bluestates, this time involving #medical #rights of #transgender #teens and their #parents.
Los Angeles Times · Is the Supreme Court about to let red states ban hormone treatment for transgender teens?
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#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump’s #grim #views on #LGBTQ+ #rights #explored as #polls claim to show the #WhiteHouse #race is #neckandneck
#Queer #people will be paying special #attention to their #views about #LGBTQ+ #rights as the #Republican's #religiouslymotivated #culturewar against the #transgender #community rages on.
PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news · Donald Trump’s grim views on LGBTQ+ rights explored as polls show White House race is neck-and-neck
#Beyondthetextbook: How #educators #navigate #race and #history in the #classroom.
As #Conservative #culturewar #debates over #criticalracetheory rage on, #educators find creative ways to #engage #students about the #US's #racial #history.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #ThePartyOfHate
https://prismreports.org/2024/10/23/teaching-race-and-history-in-the-classroom/
Prism · Beyond the textbook: How educators navigate race and history in the classroom
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“For kids like me, the part of the brain that deals with stress and conflict is always activated — the switch flipped indefinitely.”
'The venture capital firm [that J. D. Vance started, Narya,] invests in companies that aim to monetize Catholic prayer, obstruct environmentally conscious equities trading, further militarize outer space, and consolidate agricultural production, squeezing out the country’s remaining small farmers.
'Vance can’t be sated. During 2022’s campaign, to the horror of centrists and liberals who’d been gulled by his earlier Never Trump shtick, it became clear that there was effectively nothing he wouldn’t say or do — to win, certainly, but also for some purpose more libidinal and obscure.'
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/
n+1 · J. D. Vance Changes the Subject | Gabriel WinantVance’s form of far-right politics is so ominous because it responds in a primal, perverted way to something actual. We are caught under a heap of wreckage, an accumulation of social and historical trauma that we are largely without means of getting out of. Millions are dead, and millions more permanently sick, from a pandemic that everyone now pretends didn’t happen, and even more vigorously pretends is not still happening.
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#ShadyVance wants to #destroy anything #conservatives can't control.
#RachelMaddow looks at the #conservative #history of #attacking #universities for #exposing #students to #ideas that #conservatives don't like, and #highlights #JDVance in his own words discussing ideas for #punishing #universities and well as #businesses that he sees as being on the wrong side of the #culturewar he is waging.
MSNBC · Maddow: JD Vance wants to destroy anything conservatives can't control
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Rachel #Maddow looks at the #conservative history of attacking #universities for exposing students to ideas that #conservatives don't like, & highlights #JDVance in his own words discussing ideas for punishing universities as well as #businesses that he sees as being on the wrong side of the #CultureWar he is waging. This is part 1 of 2 clips cut from the Mon, Sept 30, 2024 #TRMS
#FarRight #Dictatorship #Imperialism #Autocracy #Nazis #Fascism
#Debate #VPdebate #USpol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v9ek-84zaU
#FBI’s 2023 #hatecrime #report shows #surge targeting #Black, #Jewish, and #LGBTQ+ #communities.
This #national #trend is fueled by #hateful #RepublicanParty #Culturewar #Legislation, #ConservativeMedia's #moralpanic
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
Alabama Political Reporter · FBI's 2023 hate crime report shows surge targeting Black, Jewish, and LGBTQ+ communitiesAlabama, too, is caught in the undertow of this national trend.
"... some huge part of... [the SubStack founders] actually enjoys being part of a Culture War, and they like fighting it."
#CaseyNewton, 2024
Seldom have I heard a better example of the principle known in psychology as "projection".
It's people like Casey who enjoy fighting Culture Wars. So much so that they keep trying to drag SubStack into them.
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The Verge · Platformer’s Casey Newton on surviving the great media collapse and what comes next
#Transgender #Idahoans are the #victims of a #religiouslymotivated #culturewar and #antitrans #laws.
#JuliaKeleher, a #nonbinary person, started #testosterone at 37 but canceled #topsurgery after #state #insurance cut #genderaffirming care.
#Nonbinary #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Idaho #Healthcare #Transitioning #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
Northwest Public Broadcasting · Becoming a political symbol: Transgender Idahoans talk about the realities of anti-trans health care laws - Northwest Public BroadcastingA vial of testosterone enanthate, a drug used in gender-affirming hormone therapy. (Credit: James Ronin / Pixabay) Listen (Runtime 3:49) Read Julia Keleher had spent about a decade helping other […]