[RedAlertPolitics] Grant Strobl has become a viral internet legend in the last few days for his epic troll of the University of Michigan's new online pronoun system, which encourages students to select whatever gender pronoun they wish to be called. The university faculty and staff are required to comply and use whatever pronoun the student picks, and the pronouns would be distributed to classrooms.
Strobl -- a UM student, YAF Chapter Chair, and 2016 Red Alert Politics '30 Under 30′ winner -- selected the pronoun "His Majesty," proving the ridiculousness of the program.
We were among the first to report it. Fox News reported on it. Total Frat Move covered it too.
Now, a liberal UM professor is striking back.
Emily Jashinsky, spokeswoman for Young America's Foundation, reports:
Friday afternoon, a University of Michigan statistics professor threatened to "punish" anybody in her class who used the school's new pronoun designation tool to change their pronoun to "His Majesty" like YAF Chairman Grant Strobl did earlier this week.
According to student sources, the professor, identified as statistics lecturer Nadiya Fink, told her class they would be punished if they changed their pronoun to something "disrespectful" to students who are "different" than "us."
"Fink remarked, "People who do what that kid did will be punished.'
More from YAF here.
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