Someone will have to tell the young queer religious militant university students that demanding the expulsion of teachers who do not agree with their catechism and demanding “socialist control” of the content that is taught in the classrooms is exactly what in the name of democracy was practiced by the totalitarian movements of the last century in hemicycles as unsuspected as the German one. Denying reality and forcing the whole society to deny it was always one of his strategies, as well as educating the youth in the defense of his cause. The prize for the boys was to feel superior, to think they were working for a greater purpose.
It is appropriate to explain it plainly, because this well-learned maxim according to which anyone who disagrees with the concept of gender identity should be accused of phobia and punished for hate crime is beginning to be burdensome and not very funny . And what’s more, there is a worrying intellectual poverty. The string of cancellations that teachers in the international academic world (in the USA, Great Britain…) have suffered simply to remember that gender is by definition patriarchal oppression and not a supermarket of stereotypical identities has already reached the University Autonomous of Barcelona.
The professor of Social Anthropology Sílvia Carrasco, an abolitionist feminist with a past at ICV, woke up a few days ago with the classroom papered with the phrase “Terf Alert” and publications where she claims that there are no women with penises. A self-styled “socialist” youth movement describes it as transphobic speech and has issued a video demanding his and his team’s expulsion, while haranguing to respond “against gender oppression”.
Gender oppression. Here we have the new appropriation by transgenderism of a concept that belongs to an enlightened political philosophy such as feminism. For the mothers of these dwarfs who shout “terf”, gender oppression is the definition of subjugation and the injustice that women still suffer today for being one. Although, little by little, they are imbuing them with the idea that it is a tool for the emotional validation of transgender people… And they want them to keep quiet.
