<![CDATA[Iowa legislators mandate all Univ of #Iowa students must take a Charlie Kirk-inspired 6-credit course on ‘Intellectual Freedom’ so unpopular that only 8 students have ever voluntarily enrolled.]]>Iowa legislators mandate all Univ of students must take a Charlie Kirk-inspired 6-credit course on ‘Intellectual Freedom’ so unpopular that only 8 students have ever voluntarily enrolled.

“Iowa Republicans created the Center for Intellectual Freedom to counter what they described as ‘liberal indoctrination’ on college campuses.”

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Iowa lawmakers move to mandate students take Center for Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment

A last minute Republican legislative push could force University of Iowa college students to take classes at the newly-created Center for Intellectual Freedom. It's exactly what a report highlighted was needed to make the center successful.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/70212232-d8fa-4718-9b1c-19cc98035588/iowa-legislators-mandate-all-univ-of-iowa-students-must-take-a-charlie-kirk-inspired-6-credit-course-on-intellectual-freedom-so-unpopular-that-only-8-students-have-ever-voluntarily-enrolled.RSS for NodeMon, 25 May 2026 08:59:35 GMTSat, 23 May 2026 12:54:49 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Iowa legislators mandate all Univ of #Iowa students must take a Charlie Kirk-inspired 6-credit course on ‘Intellectual Freedom’ so unpopular that only 8 students have ever voluntarily enrolled. on Sat, 23 May 2026 18:58:43 GMT]]>@AnnaAnthro Fuck Iowa lawmakers

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/howtophil/statuses/116625422642191963https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/howtophil/statuses/116625422642191963Sat, 23 May 2026 18:58:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Iowa legislators mandate all Univ of #Iowa students must take a Charlie Kirk-inspired 6-credit course on ‘Intellectual Freedom’ so unpopular that only 8 students have ever voluntarily enrolled. on Sat, 23 May 2026 14:14:07 GMT]]>@AnnaAnthro nothing says “intellectual freedom” like compulsory enrollment.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/theothersimo/statuses/116624303560501887https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/theothersimo/statuses/116624303560501887Sat, 23 May 2026 14:14:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Iowa legislators mandate all Univ of #Iowa students must take a Charlie Kirk-inspired 6-credit course on ‘Intellectual Freedom’ so unpopular that only 8 students have ever voluntarily enrolled. on Sat, 23 May 2026 14:09:30 GMT]]>@AnnaAnthro

ffs

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/samiamsam/statuses/116624285371713644https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/samiamsam/statuses/116624285371713644Sat, 23 May 2026 14:09:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Iowa legislators mandate all Univ of #Iowa students must take a Charlie Kirk-inspired 6-credit course on ‘Intellectual Freedom’ so unpopular that only 8 students have ever voluntarily enrolled. on Sat, 23 May 2026 13:48:23 GMT]]>@samose Can also imagine that same grad student submitting a syllabus full of Kirk, Atlas Shrugged and Peterson articles, getting it approved then taking the articles apart critically in class!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AnnaAnthro/statuses/116624202372922211https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AnnaAnthro/statuses/116624202372922211Sat, 23 May 2026 13:48:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Iowa legislators mandate all Univ of #Iowa students must take a Charlie Kirk-inspired 6-credit course on ‘Intellectual Freedom’ so unpopular that only 8 students have ever voluntarily enrolled. on Sat, 23 May 2026 13:36:38 GMT]]>@AnnaAnthro I feel like I just got stabbed in the brain with irony.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://retro.pizza/users/cocaine_owlbear/statuses/116624156171960160https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://retro.pizza/users/cocaine_owlbear/statuses/116624156171960160Sat, 23 May 2026 13:36:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Iowa legislators mandate all Univ of #Iowa students must take a Charlie Kirk-inspired 6-credit course on ‘Intellectual Freedom’ so unpopular that only 8 students have ever voluntarily enrolled. on Sat, 23 May 2026 13:30:50 GMT]]>@AnnaAnthro Iowa lawmakers create actual conservative indoctrination to fight imaginary liberal indoctrination.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/kralcttam/statuses/116624133359073261https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/kralcttam/statuses/116624133359073261Sat, 23 May 2026 13:30:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Iowa legislators mandate all Univ of #Iowa students must take a Charlie Kirk-inspired 6-credit course on ‘Intellectual Freedom’ so unpopular that only 8 students have ever voluntarily enrolled. on Sat, 23 May 2026 13:25:24 GMT]]>@AnnaAnthro I wonder who will teach the class. Probably some poor PoliSci grad student who fully understands just how bad the whole situation is and is forced to be complicit.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/samose/statuses/116624112002081075https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/samose/statuses/116624112002081075Sat, 23 May 2026 13:25:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Iowa legislators mandate all Univ of #Iowa students must take a Charlie Kirk-inspired 6-credit course on ‘Intellectual Freedom’ so unpopular that only 8 students have ever voluntarily enrolled. on Sat, 23 May 2026 13:00:45 GMT]]>@AnnaAnthro

Boo!!!! (Although… forcing students to pay to be indoctrinated looks like a good way to spur student activism and inspire civil disobedience🙂)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/donray/statuses/116624015097468652https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/donray/statuses/116624015097468652Sat, 23 May 2026 13:00:45 GMT