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Slack.com slash DHQ. Before we get to the news of the day, I thought it might be fun to

take a little trip to academia and find out what our friends, the left-wing college professors

are up to. After all, as the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but these people

are idiots. Actually, that's saying may not be all that old. Here's a story about college

professors that so help me is completely true. Assistant professor Rebecca Tuevel of

Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee recently wrote an academic paper that was published

in the feminist journal Hypatia. The paper was entitled, In Defense of Transracialism.

Transracialism, of course, is when you pretend to be a different race in order to pretend

to be a victim of pretend depression. Assistant professor Tuevel wrote that it isn't fair

that society is increasingly tolerant of transgenderism, but remains suspicious of

transracialism. After all, if we can pretend to believe people who pretend to be a different

gender, why can't we pretend to believe people who pretend to be a different race?

Mr. Tuevel wrote, quote, and this is a real quote, we need an account of race that does

not collapse into a position according to which all forms of self-identification are socially

recognized, such as one self-identification as a wolf.

Assistant professor Tuevel's article set off a firestorm of criticism, with hundreds of

other academics signing a petition asserting that it was dangerous and an act of epistemic

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