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2016-10-02 Home Front: Culture Wars
Professor threatens students who troll U-Mich LGBT pronoun rule
[RedAlertPolitics] Grant Strobl has become a viral internet legend in the last few days for his epic troll of the University of Michigan's new online pronoun system, which encourages students to select whatever gender pronoun they wish to be called. The university faculty and staff are required to comply and use whatever pronoun the student picks, and the pronouns would be distributed to classrooms.

Strobl -- a UM student, YAF Chapter Chair, and 2016 Red Alert Politics '30 Under 30′ winner -- selected the pronoun "His Majesty," proving the ridiculousness of the program.

We were among the first to report it. Fox News reported on it. Total Frat Move covered it too.

Now, a liberal UM professor is striking back.

Emily Jashinsky, spokeswoman for Young America's Foundation, reports:
Friday afternoon, a University of Michigan statistics professor threatened to "punish" anybody in her class who used the school's new pronoun designation tool to change their pronoun to "His Majesty" like YAF Chairman Grant Strobl did earlier this week.

According to student sources, the professor, identified as statistics lecturer Nadiya Fink, told her class they would be punished if they changed their pronoun to something "disrespectful" to students who are "different" than "us."
"Fink remarked, "People who do what that kid did will be punished.'

More from YAF here.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-10-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Let's make sure that "professor" has a difficult time going forward. Circulate his name, mock his pronouncements. Fuck him.
Posted by Crusader 2016-10-02 01:50||   2016-10-02 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't see any CV or publications list on her homepage.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-10-02 07:37||   2016-10-02 07:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Just call me Grom-kami
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-10-02 07:38||   2016-10-02 07:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Since Xer and Zqrs or whatever have no dictionary meaning or grammatical sense I here by declare them to be pronounced "a$$hole" or "fish" as in ghoti.

Take this shit and stuff it back up their assholes.
Posted by AlanC 2016-10-02 07:44||   2016-10-02 07:44|| Front Page Top

#5 They have no defense of 'academic freedom' anymore. Time for the people and state to take their property back.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-10-02 08:40||   2016-10-02 08:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Ms. Fink is a lecturer. She likely is not tenure-track. Apparently she is also an assistant professor at Albion College down the road from the big M. It's a bit strange: not sure why Albion would let her teach at Michigan.
Posted by Steve White 2016-10-02 09:01||   2016-10-02 09:01|| Front Page Top

#7 I suggest these people at U-Mich do something useful than annoy and bully others with this PC crap. Strobl [His Majesty] has got balls and a good sense of humor.
Posted by JohnQC 2016-10-02 09:31||   2016-10-02 09:31|| Front Page Top

#8 I am much different from that professor , i am not part of "us".
Posted by Tarzan Slailet2796 2016-10-02 09:49||   2016-10-02 09:49|| Front Page Top

#9 How dare that professor out a student that is following "the rules"! Especially by calling him/her/it/lkes/xan "a kid"? how disrespectful of herd animals of the quadruped persuasion.
[sarc off]
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-10-02 10:51||   2016-10-02 10:51|| Front Page Top

#10 "Nadiya Fink"

Aptly named.
Posted by Barbara 2016-10-02 11:03||   2016-10-02 11:03|| Front Page Top

#11 All respects Dr.White, it's not just the lecturer. It the faculty and administration that created the environment that produced the event that justifies forfeiture of the defense of 'academic freedom' from accountability from the people and state that fund them. I don't think any of these public universities could survive if faced with going private and having to pay their way and have to honestly lease or take a mortgage to pay for the land and facilities they operate upon.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-10-02 11:04||   2016-10-02 11:04|| Front Page Top

#12 How about "His Imperial Majesty"?

Or would that be disrespectful to the professor's man-god: Obama?
Posted by CrazyFool 2016-10-02 11:07||   2016-10-02 11:07|| Front Page Top

#13 The Professor is a fink! :-)
Posted by gorb 2016-10-02 12:44||   2016-10-02 12:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Good stuff.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-10-02 19:15||   2016-10-02 19:15|| Front Page Top

#15 Geez, His Majesty doesn't sound the least bit disrespectful...I'm sure Juan Carlos appreciates it and I am sure the latest wahabist in Soddy Arabia insists on it.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-10-02 19:36||   2016-10-02 19:36|| Front Page Top

#16 Students at the university should request to be called Dean or Professor as it will limit the stature these yucks in charge claim to have.
Posted by Airandee 2016-10-02 21:03||   2016-10-02 21:03|| Front Page Top

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