Journalism Education Conference Dominated by Trans Propaganda

Sort of...well, they tried.

AEJMC (Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication) held its annual conference in Philadelphia last week. This is the biggest and most prominent academic conference for the professors who allegedly train journalism students to be unbiased and dispassionate in their coverage of the news.

It should come as no surprise that the conference, which features multiple panels and presentations a day, offered over a dozen presentations, papers and speakers decrying transphobia and waxing on about how transphobia in journalism should be stamped out. No bias there, obviously. There was little mention of other “marginalized” groups. An alien who attended the conference would have left with the impression that transphobia is the singular most pressing issue facing the human race.

It wasn’t hard to recognize the people who were giving these presentations. In a sea of ordinary looking academics, they were the ones dressed in video game-inspired color schemes.

All very expected.

But there was a strange vibe. The normies politely clapped when they were supposed to. Said hello. Nodded once and awhile. But mostly, the genderist presenters were tolerated and ignored. They weren’t praised for being brave and wonderful. They weren’t hugged. They were weren’t lavished with awards.

It felt like there were two different conferences going on. One for adults and one for children who live in a pink neon fantasy world.

While it is still alarming that professors who are supposed to teach against bias are being evangelized at so aggressively, it is also heartening to see so many professors totally over the genderist thing. There was even a panel featuring two TERFs, who were mildly open about their beliefs and tried to focus the conversation on serious issues facing journalists.

Also, the only people wearing their pronoun stickers were the genderists. Most everyone else didn’t bother, and on the last day of the conference there were still piles of pronoun stickers collecting dust (see above photo).

It was a good sign.