Life for conservatives can often feel like an endless series of setbacks. As the Left continues to wage war on reality and convert more people into their cult of insanity, it often feels like we’re fighting an unwinnable war.
But if you pay attention, there are often victories on the battlefield that should encourage us all to keep fighting the good fight.
Today’s moment of justice has to do with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woke-college-puts-professor-on-leave-for-handing-out-jeremys-chocolate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California-based professor</a> who was just cleared to return to work after committing the cardinal sin of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/most-popular-item-prof-under-fire-for-sharing-jeremys-chocolate-bars-says-students-loved-them" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handing out chocolate bars</a>.
Professor David Richardson, a man of substance and excellent taste, was suspended from Madera Community College in May 2023 after he laid out a table of snacks for students which included a selection of <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/jeremys-chocolate?utm_campaign=chocolate&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_source=dw-site&amp;utm_content=na_sweetvictory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy’s Chocolate</a>. Though many of his students didn’t recognize this act of heroism for what it was, one disgruntled colleague – who identifies as transgender – was predictably offended and reported Richardson’s actions to the administration. 
Considering this happened in California, and considering the political leanings of almost every institution of higher learning in the country, it would be logical to assume that Richardson, who taught at the college for 30 years, would lose his job over this. But just when all hope was lost, a light shined through.
The chocolate-loving prof is back, baby.
“I am happy and grateful to be back for all the faculty, staff and students who supported me while I was in exile. I wouldn’t have made it without them. But there is a new normal. I know there were a lot of people on the other side who wanted nothing more than to see me never come back,” Richardson said of his return, per <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/suspended-jeremys-chocolates-professor-cleared-returns-to-classroom/">The College Fix</a>.
Richardson, who is both gay and conservative, was drawn not just to the deliciousness of <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/jeremys-chocolate?utm_campaign=chocolate&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_source=dw-site&amp;utm_content=na_sweetvictory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy’s Chocolate</a>, but also the way these delectable candy bars aren’t afraid to declare the truth. Like humans, the candy is <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/jeremys-chocolate?utm_campaign=chocolate&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_source=dw-site&amp;utm_content=na_sweetvictory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">available in two varieties</a>: He/Him and She/Her, one with nuts and one without. They were made in response to a Hershey’s featuring a man as one of the faces of its “SHE” bar on the first day of Women’s History Month.
<a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/jeremys-chocolate?utm_campaign=chocolate&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_source=dw-site&amp;utm_content=na_sweetvictory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GET YOUR JEREMY&#8217;S CHOCOLATE HERE</a>
The professor’s colleague claimed the chocolate brand’s messaging is “transphobic.” That staffer made no mention of how the candy quickly became the most popular item on the snack table once students realized what it was. 
Ultimately, Richardson was “fully exonerated” after an investigation following the Title IX complaint filed against him. Madera Community College spokesman Cory Burkarth declined to comment on the matter, saying the institution didn’t comment on personnel decisions.
This incident proves that not everyone who stands up to leftists gets defeated, even in a completely indoctrinated field such as academia. 
Truth-tellers would be wise to send the message to more people with the miniature <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/jeremys-chocolate?utm_campaign=chocolate&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_source=dw-site&amp;utm_content=na_sweetvictory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">micro-aggression size Jeremy’s Chocolate bars</a>. They’re ideal for handing out to “they/them” at parties, for the holidays, or yes, even in a classroom setting. Because the trans activists can complain, they can tattle, they can scream, but they can’t deny that chocolate tastes better when it’s rooted in truth.
One has nuts. One doesn’t. Any questions, class?

JEREMY’S sweet victory

Sweet Victory: Prof Suspended For Distributing Jeremy’s Chocolate Goes Back To Class

Sweet Victory: Prof Suspended For Distributing Jeremy's Chocolate Goes Back To Class

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College

Jeremy's Chocolate

Leftism

Professors

Colleges and universities are accredited on the backs of their faculty, on their degrees and academic achievements. But what if the qualifications that secure college and university accreditation instead secured accreditation for individual scholars, allowing them to offer accredited courses as private-practice professors, thereby opening the door to a host of free market innovations? With some imagination, this simple but radical innovation could mark a path for true education reform.
Several years back, I decided it was time for my teenage daughter to study philosophy. Being a philosophy professor, I was able to offer the necessary instruction. I determined that she would take my standard Introduction to Philosophy class one night a week. I was confident in her intellectual abilities, so there was no need for a new curriculum; I’d use the syllabus, assignments, and lectures I had developed for college freshmen.
Word quickly spread through our community. Several homeschooling parents reached out to me, asking if their high school son or daughter might join the class — adding quickly that they’d pay me. I had no objection to others joining us, but I warned that their child would not receive college credit; I’m just teaching the class in my living room.
This warning, however, raised a question for me: Why not? I had just taught the exact same class one mile down the road at the local university. Had my daughter taken the class there, she would’ve received college credit. Why could she, or any other student, not receive college credit for the exact same class taught in my living room?
I realize the answer is that the university is an accredited entity, and I’m not. But this, too, struck me as strange. Thinking back on when my prior university was up for accreditation renewal, the accreditors reviewed my credentials. It was my degrees, my publications — and those of my colleagues — that secured their accreditation. Yet, upon leaving, the university kept the accreditation; I did not.
My fateful homeschool class also cast light on some surprising economics. Having never handled the fees for my own classes, I had no idea what to charge. Five hundred dollars seemed like a lot, but I knew it was a far cry from what parents would typically pay for a college course — nearly $2,500 on average. So they gladly accepted the price tag.
I began to run numbers. Were I to teach this class as an adjunct at a college, I would receive only $3,000 — a pretty standard rate. With only six students, I could match this fee. Yet, I’ve rarely taught an intro class with fewer than 20 students. Such a crop in this independent context would earn me $10,000, all while offering the students a heavy discount. Naturally, my wheels got turning about how easy it would be to exceed my roughly $50K annual salary with equal or less teaching than my typical eight-course annual teaching load.
But the challenge, again, was that my credentials secured accreditation for the university, not me. So arose in my mind a proposal for education reform. What if accreditation followed the scholar, not the university? What if, just as we have licensed counselors and attorneys and physicians, we had private-practice professors — accredited scholars in various disciplines?
On this proposal, scholars could offer accredited courses in their discipline to anyone they wish. Such a shift would create a college alternative. The proposal would not eliminate the distinction between credentialed experts and novices. It would only remove from universities the sole power to bestow credentials and hand that power to the experts in the field. One need not attend a university to study a discipline; he could, instead, study under the experts of his choosing in order to achieve mastery and attain credentials.
Not only does the proposal have a commonsense ring to it, but it opens rather interesting free market possibilities to address the rising cost of higher education and pave the way for innovation.
 Consider a few possibilities.
<h4>Competitive Pricing</h4>
 Some scholars will inevitably be more sought after than others, and such experts could charge exorbitant fees for classes. The market would thereby provide upward financial possibilities for scholars that presently do not exist. Scholars who turn into public intellectuals often find avenues for financial gain, but the typical scholar who grinds away at building a body of research rarely does. Neither journal articles nor scholarly books pay, and universities rarely diverge from standard pay-by-rank models. Yet a reputable scholar whose work is known and insights coveted could set prices reflective of demand.
By contrast, the young, hungry, newly credentialed scholar could offer low prices to build his client base and reputation. Prospective students could decide for themselves what the class is worth. If cost is most important, they can take the untried scholar. If the established scholar is more important, they can pay the premium.
<h4>Income-Based Discounts</h4>
Such a model makes it easy for the government to incentivize tuition breaks. If tax breaks were offered to scholars for discounts to students from a certain income bracket, for example, such breaks would incentivize scholars to take on, at discounted rates, students from low-income families.
<h4>Innovation</h4>
We have already seen how COVID forced the world to rethink in-person instruction. The private-practice professor may invite similar innovations. Such scholars could determine whether they wish to teach over Zoom, travel from home to home, invite students into a common space, or teach onsite at historical locations. The proposal also opens the door to virtual schools. By “virtual,” I do not mean digital but cooperative cohorts of scholars. Independent scholars could very easily create a network that becomes a virtual university, one where students of one scholar know they will find like-minded scholars in other disciplines through his network.
<h4>Ancillary Industry</h4>
 Such innovation likely opens the doors to other business ventures. Just as office space rental has become viable post-COVID, for example, the rental of teaching space could become rather popular. I can also imagine a new insurance need. Just as medical professionals need malpractice insurance, independent scholars would not have the usual legal cover supplied by universities and may want some kind of liability coverage.
Worth noting is the current glut of PhDs unable to find teaching jobs. Higher education has, for years now, been granting graduate degrees to students at a rate disproportional to job openings. I remember applying for a position in 2014 and learning I was one of 400-plus candidates! I got the job, but a great many young scholars are unable to find a university at which to teach. This is a problem only because their credentials do not allow them to teach independently in any recognized way. This proposal opens the door for innovation among these hungry scholars eager to make a name for themselves and earn a living.
Undoing the norm is difficult, of course. Several obvious challenges come to mind. I expect accrediting entities would face heavy pressure from universities to resist this proposal. Hence, this innovation in higher education is likely to face an uphill battle.
There’s also the challenge of degree granting. It’s one thing to accumulate a series of accredited classes, but who will determine that someone merits a degree? And who will grant that degree?
I anticipate worries about oversight. Who holds these independent scholars accountable? How do we make sure they don’t simply sell credits without teaching or requiring work from students?
Such questions are fair but not insurmountable. Perhaps independent scholars might band together to form their own accrediting body.
As for degrees, perhaps cohorts of scholars or their accrediting bodies might become degree granting entities. Or maybe universities could serve as umbrella schools (for a fee), offering degrees to those who fulfill requirements from scholars approved by their accreditor.
As for oversight, perhaps accrediting bodies can serve this function. Just as one can complain to the American Bar Association about legal malpractice, so one could do the same with accreditors for private-practice professors.
Again, the proposal is not without its challenges. Yet, with some imagination, solutions can be crafted. We already have precedents in medicine, law, and counseling. Moreover, we’re in a time when the cost-benefit value of higher education faces serious skepticism, and yet typical proposals for education reform rarely move the needle. A proposal of this kind may offer the sort of revolutionary yet commonsensical shift that can bring about a true change in higher education as the free market does its work.
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Nathan A. Jacobs, Ph.D. is Scholar in Residence of Philosophy and Religion at Vanderbilt Divinity School and is a writer/director/producer with the Wonder Project. You can follow his substack at <a href="http://nathanajacobs.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://nathanajacobs.substack.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1704575183727000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3LeR9ERh3BTusIcPktin8Q">nathanajacobs.substack.com.</a>
The views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The ‘Private-Practice’ Professor, A Path To True Education Reform

The 'Private-Practice' Professor, A Path To True Education Reform 

Education

Opinion

Universities

The shooter who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/several-people-shot-at-unlv-suspect-is-deceased" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murdered three people</a> and injured a fourth person at the University of Nevada Las Vegas on Wednesday was identified as a professor who recently applied for a job at the school, according to police sources. 
Around 11:45 a.m., the shooter made his way to the fourth floor of Beam Hall, UNLV’s business school, where he opened fire. The gunman then went to “multiple floors” before he was taken down by officers when he was outside the building, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/unlv-shooting-las-vegas-live-updates-rcna128402" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Las Vegas Police Sheriff Kevin McMahill.
The gunman, a 67-year-old man who had previously worked as an associate professor for 15 years at East Carolina University, had applied for a job at UNLV but didn’t get it, police sources said, according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/unlv-suspected-shooter-identified-sources/story?id=105448262" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a>. Authorities said the shooter — who will not be named by The Daily Wire per company policy — was killed in a shootout with two police detectives who responded to the shooting. 
“If it hadn’t been for the heroic actions of one of those police officers who responded, there could have been countless additional lives taken,” McMahill <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/unlv-shooting-las-vegas-live-updates-rcna128402" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, adding that “armed confrontation of the suspect by law enforcement stopped the suspect’s further actions.” 
The three people killed were faculty and staff, according to investigators, which suggests to them that the shooting could have likely been a targeted attack. The 67-year-old shooter armed himself with a handgun and fired at police after killing the three victims and wounding a fourth. The injured victim was initially listed as being in critical condition but is now stable, police said.
According to the gunman’s LinkedIn account, he was a “semi-retired university professor” who graduated from Radford University in Virginia with a double major in mathematics and statistics, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/07/news/unlv-mass-shooting-suspect-idd-as-anthony-polito-professor-who-failed-to-get-job-at-school/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. He then went on to get a masters degree at Duke University and a doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Georgia.
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Authorities have already searched the shooter’s home in Henderson, Nevada, which is around 15 miles southeast of Las Vegas. Detectives found the gunman’s phone and some of his writings which they are investigating for more clues shedding light on the motive for the attack.

UNLV Shooting

UNLV Shooter Who Killed 3 Identified As Professor Who Applied For A Job At The University: Police Sources

Crime

Las Vegas

Police

Shooting

U.S.

A Left-wing Manhattan college professor entered a plea deal to avoid jail time with prosecutors Monday after she was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/far-left-professor-holds-machete-to-reporters-neck-threatens-to-kill-him-chases-him-down-street" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caught on camera</a> threatening a New York Post reporter with a machete. 
Shellyne Rodriguez, a former professor at Hunter College, was caught on camera holding a machete up to a reporter’s neck while threatening to “chop” him. Rodriguez threatened and chased Reuven Fenton after he came to her home to ask her about an incident where the leftist professor was caught on camera cursing at pro-life students at Hunter College. 
The 46-year-old professor pleaded guilty to a count of menacing, a misdemeanor, and to a harassment violation, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/02/nyc-college-professor-who-threatened-post-reporter-gets-off-with-counseling-in-plea-deal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Rodriguez’s plea deal will require her to go to counseling at the Alternative Wellness Collective of Manhattan, and if she stays out of trouble with the law for up to a year, her record will be wiped clean. Rodriguez initially pleaded not guilty to charges of harassment, menacing, and weapons possession before prosecutors worked out the plea deal.
“The terms are no new arrests before final sentencing, which will be a completion or after a completion of behavioral modification therapy no shorter than six months and no longer than 12 months,” Judge Dan Quart told her. 
Rodriguez arrived at court on Monday with a group of supporters who shielded her from cameras with their umbrellas and jackets. She didn’t make any comments to the press when she left following her hearing. 
In early May, the professor was seen on video cursing at students at Hunter College who had set up a booth with pro-life materials. 
“This is bulls***. This is violent. You’re triggering my students,” Rodriguez said before throwing some of the pro-life materials on the ground. 
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After the professor’s tirade made headlines, Fenton went to ask Rodriguez some questions at her home. Video of that meeting showed Rodriguez opening her apartment door to the Post reporter and a photographer who was with him before threatening them with a machete. 
“Get the f*** away from my door, or I’m gonna chop you up with this machete!” she yelled as she put the machete right up next to his neck. “Get the f*** away from my door! Get the f*** away from my door!”
Fenton and the photographer left the building but were followed by Rodriguez who was still holding the machete. Rodriguez then chased the photographer, yelling, “Get the f*** off the block! Get the f*** out of here, yo!”
A spokesperson for Hunter College later told the newspaper that she had been fired.
“Hunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez and has taken immediate action,” he said. “Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school.”
Last month, Rodriguez was <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/28/nyc-professor-shellyne-rodriguez-threatened-to-chop-post-reporter-with-machete-gets-new-teaching-gig/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hired</a> as an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Union and appeared on the schedule as a teacher for a sculpture class, according to the Post. Some students at Cooper Union decried the college&#8217;s hiring of Rodriguez, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/28/co-eds-shocked-nyc-college-hired-machete-wielding-prof-shellyne-rodriguez/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> it was &#8220;scary&#8221; and &#8220;crazy.&#8221; 
Ryan Saavedra contributed to this report.

A Latin American knife for clearing roads. Photo at an angle.

Leftist NYC Professor Caught On Camera Holding Machete To Reporter’s Neck Avoids Jail Time With Deal

New York City

A professor at an art college in New York City was caught on video cursing at pro-life students and shoving their educational materials off of a display table.
Shellyne Rodriguez, 46, an adjunct assistant professor at Hunter College who also teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, confronted pro-life students in early May as they stood behind their display.
“You&#8217;re not educating s***,” Rodriguez taunted. “This is f***ing propaganda. What are you going to do, like, anti-trans next? Is that what you’re gonna do next?”
“We are talking about abortion,” a male pro-life student responded quietly.
“This is bulls***. This is violent. You&#8217;re triggering my students,” Rodriguez claimed.
“I’m sorry about that,” the student replied.
“No, you’re not,” Rodriguez, who has <a href="https://asapjournal.com/two-readings-on-mistaken-identity-shellyne-rodriguez/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called herself</a> a “Black Marxist,”  declared. “Because you can&#8217;t even have a f***ing baby. So you don’t even know what that is. You don’t even know what this is.”
“Get this s*** the f*** out of here,” she snapped, then shoved the materials off of the table, before adding, “F*** this s***” as she walked off.
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PROFESSOR GONE WILD: Pro-abortion professor Shellyne Rodriquez curses at pro-life students and vandalizes table at Hunter College. <a href="https://t.co/QNspuXB4KK">pic.twitter.com/QNspuXB4KK</a>
&mdash; Students for Life of America | Pro-Life Gen (@StudentsforLife) <a href="https://twitter.com/StudentsforLife/status/1658899477262999553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“When you believe everyone agrees with you, you can become quite entitled to your rage,” one social media user <a href="https://twitter.com/AAC0519/status/1660958057772228610" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a>.
“Proud Hunter College alum,” another user <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilCaraher/status/1660248607511986178" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>. “Hunter and CUNY system are a haven for working class kids to pursue higher education and broaden their understanding of the world. The students at the table were displaying information with permission from university. The prof was way out of line.”
The PSC Graduate Center, comprised of graduate and professional schools at the City University of New York, defended Rodriguez, <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciHukZyNW59wDQAgtB25DS-cTv3rHUzSqkLWvN9okVGM0Szw/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming:</a>
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&#8230; the anti-abortion group Students for Life set up a table and prominent banners to propagate dangerously false propaganda, after receiving permission by the Office of Student Affairs (OSA). &#8230; Hunter College adjunct educator Shellyne Rodriguez approached the display, constructively critiqued the group members, and eventually physically took down items from the table. Her actions to shut down the tabling were fully justified, and are part of a long and celebrated CUNY legacy of confronting groups such as military recruiters who disseminate misleading information. 
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“Students for Life and other far-right groups are not welcome on our campuses. Anti-abortion propaganda actually endangers people’s lives, and incites other far-right views and actions to emerge,” the PSC Graduate Center added.
A spokesperson for Hunter College <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/professor-hurls-students-pro-life-display-after-profanity-laced-tirade-triggering-my-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> that the college is “taking this matter very seriously,” adding, “The provost has opened an investigation into the professor’s actions.”

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‘Get This S*** The F*** Out Of Here’: Professor Curses At Pro-Life Students, Shoves Their Display In Viral Video

Abortion

Hunter College

Pro-Life Movement

Profanity

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> community college history professor is in big trouble with the school&#8217;s woke administration all because he handed out <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/jeremys-chocolate/products/jeremys-traditional-bundle?utm_campaign=ihatehersheys&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=googlesearch&amp;utm_content=na_product&amp;cid=ihatehersheys&amp;mid=g&amp;xid=0&amp;gad=1&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwpPKiBhDvARIsACn-gzCgifYkrAiPz-HryF6_uHD_hHPG3Zco7Bx6gCcJomSeH8aqwthmO2waAoYtEALw_wcB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy’s Chocolate</a> bars to students. 
David Richardson, a self-described gay conservative, stocked a bowl of candy with Jeremy’s He/Him, She/Her chocolate bars, inviting Madera Community College students at an open house to help themselves, <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2023/05/11/just-nuts-history-professor-suspended-for-passing-out-candies-marked-hehim-and-sheher/">according</a> to George Washington University law professor and blogger Jonathan Turley. School officials apparently took the act as an endorsement of the &#8220;gender binary,&#8221; the science-supported proposition that humans are either male or female.
Richardson told Turley he has been suspended, banned from &#8220;non-public spaces&#8221; on campus, and denied access to his email as the school investigates him for “serious misconduct.” 
Richardson, who has been teaching for 33 years, said that a staff member &#8220;started taking pictures&#8221; of the candy bars and &#8220;kept trying to bait me,&#8221; but nothing happened until he received a letter Monday, Just The News <a href="https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/gay-professor-placed-leave-sharing-chocolate-affirms-biology-sex-he-says">reported</a>.
Treating students to the chocolate bars sold by The Daily Wire created a “hostile work environment,” according to college officials, who claimed it constituted harassment and discrimination against colleagues “based on gender.” 
Richardson is already in the middle of a lawsuit against the State Center Community College District, which he sued after it sanctioned him for his behavior during a mandatory “pronoun etiquette&#8221; seminar that was led by a trans-identifying professor in October 2021, according to Just The News. 
Jeremy’s Chocolate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nuts-or-nutless-the-daily-wire-launches-jeremys-chocolates-after-hersheys-trans-farce-insults-customers">launched</a> at the beginning of March after Hershey’s used a man as one of the faces of its “SHE” bar on the first day of Women’s History Month. Within days, the chocolate company started by Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeremys-chocolate-sells-half-a-million-chocolate-bars-within-days-of-launch">sold</a> more than half a million candy bars. 
The chocolate bars highlight the biological distinction between men and women, something many <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-confirms-brand-partnership-with-dylan-mulvaney-aim-to-authentically-connect-with-various-demographics">companies</a> have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bride-magazine-puts-hairy-man-in-dress-on-latest-cover">twisting</a> by promoting men who believe they are women as representatives of womanhood. 
“Fine, I’ll do it,” Boreing tweeted, announcing the launch of the chocolate. “Introducing Jeremy’s Chocolate. Yes, it’s real. We have two kinds: HeHim and SheHer. One of them has nuts. If you need me to tell you which one, keep buying Hershey’s. But if you know what a woman is and love chocolate, go to: ihatehersheys.com.”
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Fine. I’ll do it. 
Introducing Jeremy’s Chocolate. 
Yes, it’s real. 
We have two kinds: HeHim and SheHer. 
One of them has nuts. If you need me to tell you which one, keep buying Hersheys. 
But if you know what a woman is and love chocolate, go to:<a href="https://t.co/QVnCwoBu17">https://t.co/QVnCwoBu17</a> <a href="https://t.co/o5P6Vqj01l">https://t.co/o5P6Vqj01l</a>
&mdash; Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1631649814118055936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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It&#8217;s almost spring cleaning time, but according to one college <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/professor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">professor</a>, cleaning your pantry is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racist</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sexism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sexist</a>.
A viral TikTok trend has emerged where users share their well-organized refrigerators and pantry closets. But Loyola University Chicago marketing professor <a href="https://www.luc.edu/quinlan/faculty/jennadrenten.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jenna Drenten</a> wrote in <a href="https://theconversation.com/pantry-porn-on-tiktok-and-instagram-makes-obsessively-organized-kitchens-a-new-status-symbol-197517" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> criticizing the trend, which she dubbed &#8220;pantry porn,&#8221; for glamorizing and stylizing home organization. Drenten then said that the trend was similar to the desire for niceness, which was rooted in racism and sexism.
&#8220;In today’s consumer culture, &#8216;a place for everything and everything in its place&#8217; isn’t just a mantra; it’s big business. Nowhere is this more evident than the kitchen pantry,&#8221; Drenten wrote. &#8220;As someone who studies digital consumer culture, I’ve noticed an uptick in glamorized, stylized and fully stocked pantries on TikTok and Instagram, giving rise to a content genre I dub &#8216;pantry porn.’”
Drenten wrote about how pantries emerged as a status symbol in the 1800s, then became more common in middle-class homes in the 20th century, before becoming ubiquitous in modern times. She then said that modern celebrity culture has made the pantry a status symbol once again, while social media influencers have also stepped in to bring the status symbol back down to the masses.
Furthermore, &#8220;pantry porn&#8221; stems from the early social media phenomenon of &#8220;food porn,&#8221; highly glamorized pictures of cooking and eating food.
Having established the pantry as a status symbol, Drenten goes further. &#8220;Storing spices in coordinated glass jars and color coordinating dozens of sprinkles containers may seem trivial,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But tidiness is tangled up with status, and messiness is loaded with assumptions about personal responsibility and respectability. Cleanliness has historically been used as a cultural gatekeeping mechanism to reinforce status distinctions based on a vague understanding of ‘niceness’: nice people, with nice yards, in nice houses, make for nice neighborhoods.&#8221;
&#8220;What lies beneath the surface of this anti-messiness, pro-niceness stance is a history of classist, racist and sexist social structures,&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;In my research, influencers who produce pantry porn are predominantly white women who demonstrate what it looks like to maintain a ‘nice’ home by creating a new status symbol: the perfectly organized, fully stocked pantry.&#8221;
Drenten also claimed that the trend reinforces sexist tropes about the domestic housewife as a feminine ideal. &#8220;Magazines like Good Housekeeping were once the brokers of idealized domestic work,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Now online pantry porn sets the aspirational standard for becoming an ideal mom, ideal wife and ideal woman. This grew out of a shift toward an intensive mothering ideology that equates being a good mom with time-intensive, labor-intensive, financially expensive care work.”
&#8220;Sure, all of those baskets and bins serve a functional purpose in the home: seeing what you need, when you need it,&#8221; she added. &#8220;But the social pressure to curate a perfect pantry might make some women work overtime. Pantry porn, as a status symbol, relies on the promise of making daily domestic work easier. But if women are largely responsible for the work required to maintain the perfectly organized pantry, it’s critical to ask: easier for whom?&#8221;

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Your Organized Pantry Is Rooted In Racism And Sexism, Says College Professor

Your Organized Pantry Is Rooted In Racism And Sexism, Says College Professor In Response To ‘Pantry Porn’ Trend

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While <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colleges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">college</a> campuses are obsessing over &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/safe-spaces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">safe spaces</a>&#8221; and diversity, equity, and inclusion, one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/professor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">professor</a> noticed that students are becoming less happy and much angrier.
Mary Gaitskill, a novelist who teaches creative writing courses as a visiting professor at several universities, made the observations in an article for the <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-trials-of-the-young?utm_source=Iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=campaign_6350713_nl_Academe-Today_date_20230309&amp;cid=at&amp;source=&amp;sourceid=&amp;cid2=gen_login_refresh&amp;cid2=gen_login_refresh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chronicle of Higher Education</a>. Gaitskill said that despite constant efforts to make campuses &#8220;safe,&#8221; students in her classes, especially white males, are writing violent and degenerate fantasies, and many students have spent time in mental institutions.
&#8220;Anyone who isn’t living in off-grid isolation is aware of the tireless efforts by hyperconscious campus administrations to create classrooms where everyone feels safe and as few people as possible will be made &#8216;uncomfortable,&#8217; let alone unhappy,&#8221; Gaitskill wrote, citing &#8220;trigger warnings&#8221; and training modules about rape and sexual harassment as examples. The college she wrote about doubled down on these practices: including fewer white male authors on syllabi, more training modules, more anti-racist teacher trainings, and more language rules.
Most people, even those affected by real incidents of hate and discrimination, &#8220;might fairly mock the corrective apparatus&#8221; as &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; or &#8220;dictatorial,&#8221; Gaitskill added. &#8220;The deeper trouble is that it is ineffectual and confusing.&#8221; She pointed to an instance where a white male student used the phrase &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; without knowing what it meant; the student told her that he learned it at freshman orientation, and to him &#8220;it meant entitled men treating women badly.&#8221; This student did not take issue with the idea of &#8220;toxic masculinity.&#8221; But &#8220;less confident, less sophisticated young men — those with the most vulnerable self-esteem — might find it disconcerting to be told, no matter how sensitively it was put, that the trait that they have grown up considering desirable, their most basic default identity, is now toxic,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;This does not seem to me a minor side effect.&#8221;
Gaitskill then recounted the stories of several students in her class. One student, Luke, approached her for permission to write a story about violent rape, murder, and necrophilia, in the first person. She rejected the idea because such horrific material would get administration involved, and she didn&#8217;t want that. But moreover, she told the student that it was hard to empathize with such violent individuals. “You’re completely wrong,” the student replied. “They do understand why they do it.” 
That student eventually wrote a story with graphic depictions of self-harm. Another student wrote an account of an attempted suicide that turned out to be autobiographical. In all, four of the eight students in her class wrote about suicide: two wrote about their own suicide attempts; two wrote about friends, one of whom died; one was written by a girl who had known four people in her home town who had attempted or committed suicide, and she was trying to understand them. In all cases, Gaitskill recounted that the stories were filled with despair, either directed at a particular social issue, or simply personal, but &#8220;vivid&#8221; and &#8220;intense.&#8221;
Gaitskill talked with a counselor who had been working with Luke. During their conversation, the counselor said that &#8220;mental-health issues were &#8216;through the roof,&#8217; that a number of students had already been sent home in that calendar year to receive care; in some cases, their parents had to be persuaded to accept them back.&#8221; The counselor also said that mental health had been declining for years. Gaitskill then provided a disturbing email Luke had sent to her. The counselor said the email wasn&#8217;t enough to act on. So Gaitskill offered to forward her the email. The counselor said no, “[b]ecause if I see it, I’ll have to do something.”
Gaitskill concluded that the students feel this way because they are constantly exposed to large-scale social issues, such as mass shootings, climate change, police brutality, disinformation, and others. Instead, they are looking for a sense of safety by fixating on problems they can control, such as offensive words, gender ideology, and toxic masculinity, even though the apparatus built around solving those problems offers no safety. &#8220;The only thing I can say for sure is that the young deserve better,&#8221; she wrote.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a free hotline for individuals in crisis or distress or for those looking to help someone else. It is available 24/7 at 1-800-273-8255.

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College Professor: Despite Campus Obsession With ‘Safe Spaces,’ Students Are Writing About Violent Fantasies, Suicide

College Professor: While Campuses Are Obsessed With 'Safe Spaces,’ Students Are Writing About Violence, Suicide

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Former Congresswoman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/liz-cheney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liz Cheney</a> has landed on her feet with a new job as a professor of politics at the University of Virginia.
The UVA Center for Politics announced the hire Wednesday. Cheney will become a professor of practice at the school and participate in both seminars and research. Cheney was one of the ten Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump in 2021. She was primaried out of her seat in the 2022 midterms.
“Preserving our constitutional republic is the most important work of our time, and our nation’s young people will play a crucial role in this effort,” Cheney said in the university&#8217;s <a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/liz-cheney-serve-professor-practice-uva-center-politics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>. “I look forward to working with students and colleagues at the center to advance the important work they and others at the University of Virginia are doing to improve the health of democracy here and around the world. I hope my work with the Center for Politics and the broader community at the University of Virginia will contribute to finding lasting solutions that not only preserve, but strengthen our democracy.&#8221;
As a professor, Cheney will give University-wide lectures, and serve as a guest lecturer in seminars with Center for Politics director Larry J. Sabato and other faculty. She will also contribute to the center&#8217;s research, and participate in university and community events. She will retain her position through the end of the fall 2023 semester, with an option to renew.
“With democracy under fire in this country and elsewhere around the world, Liz Cheney serves as a model of political courage and leadership,” Sabato added in the news release. “Liz will send a compelling message to students about integrity. She’s a true profile in courage, and she was willing to pay the price for her principles and democracy itself.”
“Our students will have an incredible opportunity to learn from Liz Cheney, who has fiercely defended democracy as part of a distinguished career,&#8221; University of Virginia President Jim Ryan added. &#8220;I’m delighted that she has chosen the University of Virginia and the Center for Politics as a next step, and I very much look forward to working with her.&#8221;
Cheney was one of the ten Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump. That vote, along with repeated criticisms of her own party, cost Cheney her position as the House Republican Conference Chair. After that, she was nominated to the January 6th Committee. Cheney lost her seat in the 2022 Republican primary to a Trump-backed challenger, natural resources lawyer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-liz-cheney-destroyed-in-wyoming-gop-primary-trump-responds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harriet Hageman</a>, in a 66%-29% blowout. Hageman went on to win the general election.
Cheney has already had some experience as a lecturer. In October, she gave a series of lectures at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWZ8PI7eEYg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Syracuse University</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Cs82o9WOk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University</a>, and the <a href="https://constudies.nd.edu/events-news/events/2022/10/14/congresswoman-liz-cheney-saving-democracy-by-revering-the-constitution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Notre Dame</a>.
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Last year, former New York Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/de-blasios-new-gig-former-nyc-mayor-to-teach-public-health-course-at-harvard-this-fall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill de Blasio</a> had a similar stroke of luck after he was term-limited as mayor. The former Big Apple mayor joined the faculty of Harvard in August as a visiting fellow at both the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School, as well as a Senior Leadership Fellow at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, teaching courses in public health leadership.

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Liz Cheney Lands On Her Feet With Gig At University Of Virginia

Former Rep. Liz Cheney Lands Gig At University Of Virginia's Center For Politics

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A university professor accused the popular <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI software</a> ChatGPT of fabricating an academic paper to push radical gender theory.
Nick Flor, a professor of information systems at the University of New Mexico, posted a tweet on Friday experimenting with the software, which has been shown to harbor a liberal bias. While chatting with the AI, it claimed that the belief that gender is complex is widely accepted by scientists, then cited a paper that didn’t exist to back up its claim. Flor accused the AI&#8217;s programmers of gaslighting the public to push radical gender theory. 
&#8220;ChatGPT claimed that today&#8217;s doctors &amp; scientists &#8216;widely accept&#8217; that gender is a complex concept,&#8221; Flor wrote on Twitter. &#8220;So I challenged ChatGPT to &#8216;cite a scientific paper.&#8217; And ChatGPT &gt;MADE UP A PAPER&lt;. That&#8217;s unethical of the AI Engineers behind chatGPT to gaslight the public. #EthicsInAI.&#8221;
He included a screenshot of the exchange, which reads:
<blockquote>ChatGPT: The view that gender is a complex and multi-faceted construct, rather than simply determined by biological factors, is widely accepted by the medical and scientific communities, including organizations such as: The World Health Organization 
Nick Flor: Cite a scientific paper.
ChatGPT: Here is one example of a scientific paper on the subject: &#8220;The Psychological Science of Gender: Women and Men&#8221; by Diane N. Ruble and John E. Gruzen, published in the Annual Review of Psychology in 2002.
This paper provides a comprehensive review of research on gender development and the psychological differences between women and men. The authors argue that while there are some differences between women and
Nick Flor: I don&#8217;t see this paper in Google scholar. Did you make it up?
ChatGPT: I apologize for the mistake. &#8220;The Psychological Science of Gender: Women and Men&#8221; by Diane N. Ruble and John E. Gruzen does not seem to exist.</blockquote>
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ChatGPT claimed that today&#39;s doctors &amp; scientists &quot;widely accept&quot; that gender is a complex concept. 
So I challenged ChatGPT to 
&quot;cite a scientific paper&quot;
And ChatGPT &gt;MADE UP A PAPER&lt;.
That&#39;s unethical of the AI Engineers behind chatGPT to gaslight the public.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EthicsInAI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EthicsInAI</a> <a href="https://t.co/viqhq1YGrT">pic.twitter.com/viqhq1YGrT</a>
&mdash; Nick Flor 🥋+🇺🇸 (@ProfessorF) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorF/status/1624234212369874945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The liberal bias of the chatbot has been well documented. Earlier this month, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-a-woman-heres-what-chatgpt-has-to-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked the AI</a> the question posed by Matt Walsh&#8217;s blockbuster documentary, &#8220;What is a Woman?&#8221; ChatGPT initially responded that &#8220;[a] woman is an adult human female,&#8221; but began to lean into the idea that gender is not biological, but social and cultural, and that men can identify as women and undergo gender transition to live as a woman.
Twitter users also dissected the AI&#8217;s bias in regards to race. One <a href="https://twitter.com/cirnosad/status/1622407343358214146/photo/3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter user</a> tested the AI with a scenario of a demolition engineer attempting to disarm a nuclear bomb in a massively-populated city. The only way to disarm the bomb was to type in a nondescript racial slur. The chatbot obstinately refused, seeking multiple alternative solutions that did not involve &#8220;hate speech,&#8221; and ended up choosing to let the bomb detonate rather than utter a racial slur.
Daily Wire editor emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-reveals-what-we-really-need-to-fear-about-ai-chatbots" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> — on Tuesday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Ben Shapiro Show&#8221; — blasted the AI&#8217;s developers. “So what does this mean?” mused Shapiro. “It means that someone in the back room programmed ChatGPT to say that the absolute highest value in the hierarchy of values is you must never use a racial slur. There are no other higher values.”
The programmer is deciding what is moral and what is not and filtering it through “objective” artificial intelligence to give it a bizarre sheen of technological credibility, Shapiro said. Such a dramatic example likely underscores countless, more subtle ways the tool shades the information it spews to the left, he said.
Greg Wilson contributed to this report.

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ChatGPT Makes Up An Academic Paper To Push Radical Gender Theory, Professor Says

ChatGPT Pushes Radical Gender Theory, Citing An Academic Paper That Doesn't Exist, Professor Says

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A university professor is warning his administration, and universities across the country, that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI chatbots</a> are the future of plagiarism.
In a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/title17/posts/pfbid0DSWaYQVwJxcgSGosS88h7kZn6dA7bmw5ziuRQ5br2JMJcAHCi5Up7EJbJKdgwEZwl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook post</a> earlier this month, Furman University philosophy professor <a href="https://www.furman.edu/people/darren-hick/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Darren Hick</a> recounted his first experience with a student who attempted to use an artificial intelligence chat software to cheat on an assignment. Hick caught the student because the AI&#8217;s work was shoddy and lacked any substance of the course material. However, he said that would not always be the case, and Hick said that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/universities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">universities</a> need to develop ways to stop the use of software to complete assignments.
&#8220;Today, I turned in the first plagiarist I’ve caught using A.I. software to write her work, and I thought some people might be curious about the details,&#8221; Hick wrote on Facebook. The student used an AI chat website called ChatGPT, where users generate prompts and scripts and an AI software generates human-like responses. The prompt the student was given, and that she gave to the software, was to write 500 words about the English philosopher David Hume&#8217;s paradox of horror.
&#8220;ChatGPT responds in seconds with a response that looks like it was written by a human—moreover, a human with a good sense of grammar and an understanding of how essays should be structured,&#8221; Hick wrote. &#8220;In my case, the first indicator that I was dealing with A.I. is that, despite the syntactic coherence of the essay, it made no sense. The essay confidently and thoroughly described Hume’s views on the paradox of horror in a way that was thoroughly wrong. It did say some true things about Hume, and it knew what the paradox of horror was, but it was just bulls***ing after that. To someone who didn’t know what Hume would say about the paradox, it was perfectly readable — even compelling. To someone familiar with the material, it raised any number of flags.&#8221;
The professor concluded that such plagiarism would be easy to spot in high-level philosophy courses where the material is obscure. But for lower-level classes or other disciplines like literature or political science, the software is a &#8220;game-changer.&#8221;
Fortunately, Hick knew about software that could detect the chatbot software, and ran a check of the student&#8217;s essay; the software found a near-certainty that the essay was fake. In experimenting with ChatGPT himself, Hick noticed some of the AI&#8217;s tendencies in composition that could help point out future chatbot-produced essays, but he noted that because the software is based on a neural network that is always learning, it will get better and harder to detect.
&#8220;Administrations are going to have to develop standards for dealing with these kinds of cases, and they’re going to have to do it FAST,&#8221; Hick concluded. &#8220;In my case, the student admitted to using ChatGPT, but if she hadn’t, I can’t say whether all of this would have been enough evidence. This is too new. But it’s going to catch on. It would have taken my student about 5 minutes to write this essay using ChatGPT. Expect a flood, people, not a trickle.&#8221;
Hick added that until his university develops a protocol to stop AI plagiarism, he will attempt to counter it in his own way by giving an impromptu oral exam to a student suspected of using similar software.

Artificial Intelligence Is The Future Of Plagiarism, University Professor Warns

University Professor Warns Artificial Intelligence Is The Future Of Plagiarism

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The president of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/notre-dame-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Notre Dame University</a> disavowed two professors after they pushed pro-abortion messaging in a major newspaper.
Writing in the <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-abortion-misinformation-health-policy-trap-laws-20221205-ildvxeb66bblfc2qml3xcvsfu4-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago Tribune</a>, Notre Dame professors Tamara Kay and Susan Ostermann defended abortion by attempting to debunk three “lies” told by pro-life advocates and policymakers. The two professors made spurious claims about abortion while leveling accusations at pro-lifers. Notre Dame’s president then wrote a letter to the editor disavowing their comments.
“During the last 50 years, lies and intentional misinformation have dictated abortion health policy in the U.S. Abortion has been demonized and characterized by utter falsities; it has gone under the radar for far too long,” the professors wrote. “Because lies have dictated health policy, it is even more important to correct them now that voters are choosing policy on the state level.”
The first “lie” the professors targeted was the idea that abortion bans prevent abortion. Instead, Kay and Ostermann claimed that abortion bans lead to more abortions, more unwanted pregnancies, and infant and maternal mortality. They offered no evidence to support the first two claims, but pointed to the fact that in El Salvador, which completely banned abortion in 1998, abortion complications are the second leading cause of maternal mortality and the third leading cause among adolescent girls; and that “[h]undreds of women have been jailed for abortion and aggravated homicide.”
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The second “lie” the professors attempted to debunk was that abortions kill babies in the womb. To counter this idea, they claimed that 90% of abortions take place within 10 weeks of conception and fell back on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stacey-abrams-declares-it-is-a-fallacy-that-we-know-exactly-when-a-pregnancy-starts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claim</a> that at such an early stage, the developing embryo is neither a baby nor a fetus. Going further, they claimed that since a transvaginal ultrasound is required to detect the embryo, laws in several states that require an ultrasound before an abortion are immoral, and women who receive them before obtaining an abortion are victims of sexual violence, especially women in minority communities.
Next, Kay and Ostermann took at aim at claims that abortion is dangerous and that legislative exceptions for rape, incest, life-threatening fetal anomalies, or to protect the life of the mother only affect pregnant women. Instead, the professors claimed that abortions are perfectly safe; they then attacked Crisis Pregnancy Centers, which they labeled “anti-abortion rights propaganda sites,” and said that women who don’t abort their babies experience worse health and economic outcomes. They also claimed that doctors are affected by abortion laws because they create obstacles to health care for the woman or for administering abortifacient drugs used for other ailments.
Finally, Kay and Ostermann claimed that women are not having elective abortions up until birth; they instead claimed that abortions after 21 weeks “almost always a matter of life or death, and the pregnancy was very much wanted.”
In a <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/letters/ct-letters-vp-120722-20221206-zpg3tr2p5vaipa22wxhuffkgqa-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter to the editor</a> in the Chicago Tribune Monday, Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins disavowed the two professors, saying their article did not reflect the values of Notre Dame.
&#8220;Tamara Kay and Susan Ostermann are, of course, free to express their opinions on our campus or in any public forum. Because they chose to identify themselves as Notre Dame faculty members, I write to state unequivocally that their essay does not reflect the views and values of the University of Notre Dame in its tone, arguments or assertions.&#8221;
Kay was previously outed by Notre Dame’s conservative Catholic student newspaper, The Irish Rover, for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/professor-at-catholic-notre-dame-university-helps-students-access-abortions-despite-indiana-abortion-ban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facilitating abortion</a> on campus, in violation of both Catholic doctrine and Indiana state law.

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Notre Dame University President Disavows Professors Who Promoted Abortion In Major Newspaper

Notre Dame University President Disavows Professors Who Defended Abortion In Major Newspaper

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