In the least surprising news of the week, Kristi Noem’s new anti-LGBTQ+ “whistleblower hotline” has been a giant mess (and a headache for those in charge of handling it) since it was created a little over a month and a half ago.
South Dakota’s gay-hating governor announced the hotline right around the start of Pride month. The purpose, she said, was to combat the “state of crisis” happening in higher education and not allow “liberal ideologies to poison [South Dakota’s] colleges and universities.”
Across the nation, higher education is in a state of crisis.
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) May 26, 2023
From prioritizing feelings over facts to radical indoctrination, as a country, we should be ashamed of this.
As a state, South Dakota can show the nation what quality higher education is supposed to look like. pic.twitter.com/wMdl7Op2Ef
Noem encouraged students, professors, faculty, parents, taxpayers, and anyone with a phone, really, to call and complain about anything and everything “woke” happening at the state’s public higher education institutions.
Within hours of the hotline going live, the mailbox was full.
Shortly after that, Noem announced that–surprise!–it had received an alarming number of reports of schools encouraging “transgender ideologies” and requiring students to share their preferred pronouns during course introductions.
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