Friday, February 14, 2025

Loons funded by...YOU!-----Disabled, queer ‘Chicanx’ ethnic studies scholar: Trump EO on sex/gender is ‘fascism’

Referencing George Orwell’s “1984,” Castro-Gill said not permitting individuals to “define” themselves as they wish is “fascism.” - Dave Huber 
Tracy Castro-Gill told lawmakers that her identifying “markers” — disabled, queer, ‘Chicanx’ (which sounds like “Chicanese”) recently were made “illegal” in the federal government, but her “very presence and humanity” stand in “opposition to that legislation.”...
  • “Teachers historically have held the gap between humanity and fascism,” they (Castro-Gill uses “they/them” pronouns) said, and then teachers become the “primary targets” of that fascism.
  • What’s more, Castro-Gill noted the lawmakers had “heard from students” that educators “are often the people who foster student identity and development,” and because of this fact are being “targeted” and removed from positions.
  • Notice what was said as sort of cast-away conventional wisdom: that teachers are often “the people who foster student identity.” Maybe that’s the problem …??...

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