Bitchin Dave's Newsletter - September 23rd
Texas had a story that actually cut me deeply. The basic story is that a literature professor at Texas A&M was conducting a lecture about children's authors and in the context of the discussions used pronouns other than the two that the GOP seems to dwell on. A student was incensed and a discussion ensued; essentially the student was saying the law was broken in even discussing such matters. The instructor politely offered for the student to leave if they (see what I did there?) were uncomfortable. And how do we know this? Because "someone" in the class recorded it and posted it online (I don't know if that's actually legal in and of itself). To me, it feels an awful lot like a setup, but no matter. There was additional fallout. The student wound up calling the chair of the department and recording that conversation and posting it (not sure if that's a crime in Texas, either, but whatever). The chair said nothing would happen as a result of this, an...