That's giving Trump the benefit of the doubt, which is something he's proven he doesn't deserve. This is happening at the Pentagon, too. Trump considers contributions from women and racial minorities to be "DEI", so pages honoring them on the DoD's website were taken down. One Black medal of honor recipient's page had the url edited to say "deimedal-of-honor". Some of the pages have been restored, but that this even happened to begin with is fucking disgusting.

Maybe this all seems childish, but it should be called out for what it is: a clear attempt to erase the contributions of women and minorities at a federal level, permeating down to other institutions such as universities. If they can erase these people, at least to some degree, they can slowly rewrite history to suit their patriarchal and white supremacist fantasy.

I seriously doubt this is being enacted out of spite. Auditing and overhauling websites and web content that's been around for years is not a quick and easy task, and if there are deadlines that can risk funding, the work isn't going to be as thorough and efficient as it could be. From the article:

Campus administrators taking this approach argue that, when tasked with reviewing massive numbers of webpages and programs, keywords make it easier to arrive at a smaller, more manageable pool to review.

which is true, but that doesn't make keywords an effective, accurate tool. They're swatting flies with hammers, maybe because they lack more specific guidelines in what to remove or not remove.

what a lot of users here seem to forget too is that trump is against transgenderism for very different reasons than GCs.

conservatives and GCs agree transgenderism is fetishistic, but that’s kind of where our viewpoint similarities end

we’re against it because it’s misogynistic and homophobic, and we think anyone should be able to be GNC without being thought of as the opposite sex. we see it as enforcing gender roles.

conservatives are against it because they see it as freakish and against traditional family values. they see it as not enforcing gender roles.

Part of me is concerned that it was a psyop tbh. Elon Musk flooded Twitter with AI MAGA accounts before the election. It would be significantly harder to carry out such a thing on Ovarit due to it being invite-only, but given that the "STOP FEARMONGERING ABOUT PROJECT 2025" and "AT LEAST HE KNOWS WHAT A WOMAN IS" rhetoric seems to have reached a fever pitch over the summer and fall and since simmered down considerably, who knows what could have happened.

Orange Fürher

Give me a break. It is a sign of the utmost privilege to compare a controversial politician to a man who killed millions of people in death camps. Criticize him all you want, but knock that shit off it makes you look absurd