Researchers Claim There’s a ‘Rise of Online Fascism’ After University Students Send Mocking Responses to Transgender Survey
Academics from Oregon State University are claiming there is a “rise of online fascism” after students sent mocking responses to their LGBTQ survey.
The academics wrote about their shock and disgust in an article titled “Attack Helicopters and White Supremacy: Interpreting Malicious Responses to an Online Questionnaire about Transgender Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science Student Experiences” for the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.
According to the article, 50 of the 349 responses to their online questionnaire about “Transgender Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science Student Experiences” contained “slurs, hate speech, or direct targeting of the research team.”
“The data was coded inductively and discursively interpreted through social justice frameworks,” the researchers wrote. “The responses contained homophobic, transphobic, ableist, anti-Black,
