Hey there, I'm JVL here with my bulwark colleague, Will Summer. And right now, the biggest

culture war controversy in America is about an undergraduate psych essay at the Oklahoma

University. We are the stupidest timeline, Will. Please tell the people what is happening that has the right in America, the governor of Oklahoma, super mad.

So this is the story that has all of America captivated.

As you said, it focuses on a University of Oklahoma undergraduate named Samantha Fulnicki. She wrote an essay for

her psych class that was meant to be a response to an article about gender roles. And she wrote,

you know, weirdly they published the essay so we know what it says. It was not a very good essay,

I would say, about, you know, sort of just Jesus

said gender should be this way and that's the way it's going to be for me. She got a zero on the

essay. She gave it to her local turning point chapter and then they really blew it up. And so the latest

beat in this was on Sunday. The University of Oklahoma says it's suspended one of the grad students involved in the grading here.

So it is, it's truly crazy.

It's gotten to this level.

So I think we should stipulate to a couple things here.

I think that Samantha, that's her name, right?

Samantha, the undergraduate.

I think she has a point. So this is a bad essay. And so people understand this is not like an

honors thesis. This is a 650 word reaction essay that is basically meant to prove that you read

the reading. That's that this is basically a book report. Show us you read the reading.

This is basically a book report.

Show us you read the reading.

And we have both the grading rubric from the teaching assistants and her essay.

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