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lupismaris · 2 years ago

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I appreciate my boss for a lot of reasons, one of which is his taking the time to stop at my desk while rushing to an "emergency comms meeting" (letting the team know students will be counter protesting and to be ready) to let me know "the fuckin idiot bigots" (bible thumpers) are on campus today (hence counter protest) and that he'd go pick up lunch for me if needed so i didn't have to put myself at risk as an openly trans member of the university

It's a nice compromise considering we can't escort them off the property (state owned public property is technically fair game) that they'll at least keep me from being tossed into the muck and inevitably wanting to throw hands

#they show up twice a year and the students meet then with noise of their own and do their best not to start a brawl #the trouble is as a state uni we cant remove them or we violate constitutional rights etc and students get very upset about that #and when everyone is upset its hard to explain things clearly. granted we could do a better job preparing for these fuckers #and do a better job drowning them out but we never have anything prepared and they catch us off guard #and then the marginalized student population turns to us and demands why we allow this to happen at a school that claims to represent them #its a cycle we haven't found a way out of yet and it's exhausting

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