There's No Virtue Signaling in Football! Sooner Ideologues Drop Ball Before Playoff Kickoff
Super-Woke Embarrassments Continue for University of Oklahoma
On Friday night, as the University of Oklahoma’s Palace on the Prairie filled to capacity with dedicated football fans ready to cheer like champions during Norman’s first ever, home playoff game, the required “CODE OF CONDUCT” for attendees displayed on the stadium’s massive screens.
This journalist personally took photos of those displayed rules from the lower press box side of the stadium shortly after 6 pm. Despite social media claims, the images have not been altered in any way.
The second slide, though grammatically flawed, was both reasonable and predictable. The field is off limits.
The first slide, however, was a clear signal that despite being funded by taxpayer dollars, the University of Oklahoma (OU) is controlled and operated by progressives who simply must inject their distorted world view upon the masses, no matter the setting or circumstances. This was a bigtime football game in America’s most conservative state, not an elective workshop on intersectionality and gender fluidity.
The message read “CODE OF CONDUCT: ABUSIVE, RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC, TRANSPHOBIC AND ANY OTHER THREATENING LANGUAGE OR ACTIONS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.”
To be clear, there have been NO public reports of gay or self-described ‘trans’ people being abused at Sooner football games. There have been NO strained racial tensions that have erupted into violence. There is no evidence of any such local or national problem that would necessitate strong, preemptive warnings flashed prominently in 10-foot font over college stadiums.
To the contrary, given the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk and the documentable increase in antisemitic gatherings on American college campuses, one might legitimately rationalize a visual rule protecting the safety of Christian and Jewish attendees and students. Instead, OU chose to frame those of alternative sexualities and gender identifications as somehow particularly victimized at football games.
The message more than hints at which groups are in ideological control of policy at OU and smacks of continued DEI practices now forbidden by both state and federal mandates.
In response to V1SUT’s posting of the pregame warning moments after it appeared on the stadium’s jumbotrons, Oklahoma’s Freedom Caucus leader, State Senator Shane Jett (R-Shawnee), responded on X with a reminder that OU “belongs to Oklahoma taxpayers” and a suggestion that OU President Joseph Harroz Jr. be replaced after again “emphasizing his prurient affirming leftist ideology to the world”.
The night ended as badly as it started. Despite their home field advantage and higher ranking, OU dropped a 17-0 lead and got rolled by the Crimson Tide. The Sooners gave up 27 unanswered points in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, and exited the playoffs. Perhaps their warmup was off.
OU’s Repeated, Self-Inflicted, Woke Wounds: Academic Staff Continue to Double-Down on Insanity Despite Suspensions
Earlier this month, the story of OU student Samantha Fulnecky went national after trans teaching assistant William "Mel" Curth gave Fulnecky a failing grade (0 of 25 points) on a psychology assignment seeking student reactions to an article about societal gender expectations.
Fulnecky espoused her Bible-based belief that gender is not fluid but unchangeably assigned by God. She described the gender bending push as “demonic and severely harmful” to young people, an opinion shared by the majority of Oklahomans.
Grading comments by Curth suggested Fulnecky’s opinion was “offensive” and lacked compassion. Megan Waldron, the other instructor for the course, agreed with the zero grade. Translation? Think like us or fail. Curth was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the university. As of yesterday, Curth has been fired.
A third graduate assistant, Kelli Alvarez, was then reported to have offered excused absences to students who attended a protest in support of Curth’s reinstatement. Similar accommodations were not offered to counter-protesters supporting Fulnecky and rallying for religious freedom on campus. Translation? Be anti-Christian and get special treatment. Alvarez was also placed on leave.
Fulnecky, in Riley Gaines fashion, has unexpectantly become a household name after standing up for her deeply held beliefs against a wokified institution. Fulnecky has appeared on dozens of national outlets and stages over the past few weeks illustrating just how tired Americans have become of higher ed radicalism.
It’s clear OU’s highest administrators have little control over classroom or campus content and the untreated mental illness that has permeated the institution’s faculty. Despite a 2023 lawmaker push to remove President Harroz after learning the university paid $18,000 to highly vulgar, ‘shock queen’ performer Yvie Oddly to headline its annual Crimson & Queens drag event, both Harroz and the event continue at the taxpayer funded institution. Harroz earns around $600,000 per year.
And if OU will boldly project messages espousing fantasized, rampant transphobia and homophobia into the night sky over more than 80,000 fans, it’s clear Fulnecky’s experience in class is far from a one-off. Stop handing them your sons, your daughters and your money.
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A previous OU President, George Lynn Cross, said his job was to build a university the football team could be proud of. Now we have the opposite: a disgrace. Thanks for another excellent article. I hope Harroz sees it.