The University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Sociology will host Alex Hanna, a transgender activist and AI researcher, as its Commencement speaker, according to a report from Campus Reform.
According to the department’s announcement, Hanna’s work as the director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute focuses on how AI technologies “exacerbate racial, gender, and class inequality through their data practices and effects on labor.”
This is sadly typical for Berkeley, which consistently promotes DEI and Cultural Marxism.
This speaker calls himself transgender despite the fact that he is a biological male.
“In 2021, Hanna co-founded the “Alex and Demiana Hanna Pride Scholarship” at the University of Wisconsin at Madison Department of Sociology for active “LGBTQ” advocates.”
“The scholarship awards $2,000 to a sociology major who is actively committed to and engaged in activities that advocate for and support the LGBTQ community.”
In other words, this is pure DEI, something which is un-American and unpopular.
The commencement speakers website says “Hanna has previously taught courses at UC Berkeley, including “Data, Power, and Infrastructure” in 2023.”
Among the absurd courses he taught were “the surveillance of Blackness and the carceral logics of technology” and “administrative violence and trans and gender non-conforming identities.”
This is pure leftist indoctrination, and something the American public has repeatedly rejected. This is racism and Cultural Marxism.
“Hanna is also a senior fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies, a think tank that combines “academic rigor and activist passion to put scholarship into practice.”
“The Florida Department of Education changed its sociology framework in March to prohibit courses from teaching that “systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States.”
Clearly, Berkeley wishes to remain a leftist center of cultural Marxist propaganda.
This school has an agenda in choosing this speaker, and that agenda is not education.
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