Kristi Noem’s anti-LGBTQ+ “whistleblower hotline” is a total clusterf*ck & nobody knows WTF is going on with it
From prioritizing feelings over facts to radical indoctrination, as a country, we should be ashamed of this.As a state, South Dakota can show the nation what quality higher education is supposed to look like.
pic.twitter.com/wMdl7Op2EfNoem encouraged students, professors, faculty, parents, taxpayers, and anyone with a phone, really, to call and complain about anything and everything “woke” suspected to be happening inside the state’s public higher education institutions.Within hours of the hotline going live, the mailbox was full.Shortly after that, Noem announced that–surprise!–it had received an alarming number of reports of schools encouraging “transgender ideologies” and requiring students to share their pronouns during course introductions.But things quickly went awry when confusion arose over who was actually supposed to manage the hateline, er, hotline and field the thousands and thousands of incoming calls each week.Noem initially said the Board of Regents would handle it, but the Board of Regents said that wasn’t true and it was being “fully managed by the governor’s office.” Adding another layer of confusion to the whole thing was (and still is) the fact that when phoning in, callers are greeted with a message thanking them for calling “the South Dakota Board of Regents whistleblower hotline.”Last week, when the issue was brought up during a Board of Regents meeting on the South Dakota Mines campus in Rapid City, Jeff Partridge, a member of the board, said they’re still waiting for Noem’s office to actually give them access to the hotline.Apparently, what’s been going on since June is someone (though no one can say exactly who) at Noem’s office fields all of the calls and then forwards any that they deem worthy of further investigation onto the Board of Regents, who is then supposed to follow up with the callers.
