Computer Engineering Course Offers to Group Students by Gender Identity – Opinion

Do you remember your school teacher ever assigning you to a class?

Back in American education’s more barbaric days, attendees were often bunched together willy-nilly. It was believed that the idea behind this event was to make young people from hardened steel.

These men were fire-forged and could even withstand the flames from being joined with other people.

The myth was true.

It is important to recognize the reality of human frailty in this new age of fact-checking. As developing minds are not challenged but need to be nurtured, they require safe and warm spaces.

A computer course offered by the University of California San Diego at San Diego takes us back to where our wild ancestors used to tread.

A Google Form survey for Winter 2022’s Software Tools and Techniques Laboratory class asks future leaders to select their “identity.”

The document explains Computer Science and Engineering professor Joe Gibbs Politz:

Some people enjoy forming groups with other people who share a particular aspect of their identities. We would love to put together a group of lab members that have a common interest or identity.

There are many options.

• Female
• Black
• Hispanic/Latinx
• Native American

Not listed: “White,” “Male.”

As for gender identity beyond “Woman,” the world’s your oyster:

It is possible, however, to not anticipate every identity. Hence:

[T]The following list is not comprehensive. It includes some basic categorizations as well as some useful ones that students have used in the past. Feel free to write in other identities or interests we might consider…

It’s a newer, safer world. There are dangers even within the walls of college computers courses. What if you’re a woman and paired with a man? What if you’re nonbinary and forced to sit with those who aren’t? What if you’re one of the very few Hispanic Americans who use the term “Latinx,” and yet you’re ordered to communicate with someone from Spain?

Incredibly, one student isn’t impressed with the woke lab paradigm.

It was laid out for Campus Reform.

“There is a high demand for so-called ‘safe spaces.’ I believe the instructor tried to protect certain identities so that they are not intimidated by other non-minority people or feel alone. But this does not prepare these people for real-world software development environments.”

Or does it? Corporate world is also changing. As generations enjoy safe spaces in school, they’ll increasingly demand them in the workplace.

Google’s Transgender Employee Forced to Wear a Badge with Their “Dead Name”
https://t.co/SZxhBCjqvQ

— RedState (@RedState) June 2, 2021

It remains unclear whether Professor Joe’s classroom is equipped with wall padding, foam on the corners, and outlet protectors to keep aspiring technological revolutionaries from inadvertently electrocuting themselves.

It’s a new world. “Safety first” is our mantra, and you can never be too careful.

With any luck, a Latinx nonbinary vegan aiming at a career in computer engineering will be able to work only with those who fit that exact description — for the rest of coselves’/hirselves’/verselves’/bunselves’/kittenselves’ lives.

Anxiety could set in if anxiety is not addressed.

Speaking of, the course’s identity options also include “Nervous…about coding.”

It is easy to get nervous about computer work. The metaphorical jacuzzi provided by only being around other nervous people is a great relief. It’s like Calgon taking us away.

If I were to guess, you can expect more identities-oriented choices when class groups are concerned.

We may have once been one nation under God, but these days, we’re a bunch of “communities” designated by skin color, self-perception, and sexual interests.

This will continue the process of categorizing. Maybe someone will make an app that can help us to avoid people other than ourselves.

Maybe it’ll be developed by a group of pansexual demigendered transracial lactose intolerants who meet at the University of California San Diego.

Joe, here’s a suggestion.

Although once sex was primarily about male and female, these days gender identity is being taken over by the wolves.

Howl Seattle Man Transitioned to a Woman and Also a Wolf https://t.co/JDbLuc2yHZ

— RedState (@RedState) February 4, 2022

-ALEX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yjGPgs0_S0

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