r/UTAustin:

u/JC_Everyman

USC=University of Spoiled Children SMU=Southern Money University They are the same.
u/Ok_Permission2523

The encroachments on free speech are coming from the state, the Board of Regents, and elements of university leadership. I believe in freedom of speech, they clearly do not. They’re the ones banning entire topics and censoring real history from being taught. This eugenics-infused event is not happening in a vacuum; it’s happening as the state and its political partners restrict freedom of speech. They can have their fake science when we can have our real history.
u/Ok_Permission2523

Oh please. If you really cared about freedom of speech, you would be concerned about academic freedom being stripped away at UT Austin and other Texas universities. This event is not happening in a vacuum. This pseudoscience conference is happening as real actual history is being censored at Texas universities.
u/Ok_Permission2523

As a staff member at UT Austin, this glaring inconsistency is deeply troubling: While our university actively works to over-comply with censoring legislation like SB17, we’re hosting a conference featuring self-described eugenicists and promoters of long-debunked race science. Legitimate academic discourse on real actual history is being systematically erased while junk pseudoscience promoting racial hierarchies is given institutional space and legitimacy. The contrast is stark: While faculty colleagues report being pressured to alter course content to comply with SB17, our university appears to have no issue providing its venue for a conference featuring speakers who promote scientifically discredited theories of racial differences in intelligence and advocacy for eugenics. This raises serious questions that are impossible to reconcile: Why are we erasing discussions of race and equity from legitimate academic courses while hosting events that center on racial pseudoscience? How can we justify overcomplying with anti-DEI legislation while simultaneously providing a platform for a conference that explicitly promotes racial hierarchies? Will protestors who object to this event face the same brutal police response we saw during campus demonstrations last year? Academic freedom must mean protecting evidence-based inquiry from all political directionsnot censoring discussions of real actual history while giving institutional legitimacy to long-debunked “scientific racism.” Universities should be spaces for rigorous intellectual debate based on sound scholarship, not venues that legitimize harmful pseudoscience under the guise of “natalism” or “academic freedom.”
u/Ok_Permission2523

“The tacit approval of a race science conference at UT-Austin, alongside the large-scale defunding and muzzling of American science by a far-right regime, marks a very dark chapter of our history.” https://www.statesman.com/story/opinion/columns/your-voice/2025/03/26/university-of-texas-ut-austin-natal-conference-eugenics-opinion/82644280007/
u/Ok_Permission2523

There are nearly 7,000 international students at UT Austin alone. No where did I claim that every single one of them will have their visa revoked.
u/Ok_Permission2523

Sure thing. Here are a few sources, but just google UT Austin visa revocations and youll have an array to choose from (and likely more up to date): https://www.kut.org/education/2025-04-09/university-of-texas-austin-international-student-visas-protest https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/university-of-texas/ut-austin-visa-status-international-students/269-21e75475-74fd-4d9a-9f42-311807ce0b65 https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/09/texas-universities-international-students-legal-status/
u/Ok_Permission2523

How is this fear mongering? Everything laid out in my original post is happening. And the White House press secretary openly stated that the administration is looking at its options for targeting citizens next.
u/Ok_Permission2523

So true, but it doesnt mean we cant pressure them!
u/Ok_Permission2523

That’s assuming we’ll ever get any accurate info about the supposed crimes. Very little information about previous visa revocations has been released publicly.