Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 18:28:40 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: CA Teacher Fired for Refusing to Use Preferred Pronouns; Wins Big in Lawsuit References: <9j8b4j55h72rilsk2r9pa3avveiiaun75t@4ax.com> <1960000608.737567575.955210.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 11:37:28 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 43 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-6rpYBN9pjcMIvC7YEmByrRl2HkHzOd2Yfcs1lTFfUSSW3SxUn8qyPB2c1fs4RbtRp98ptDKHi7XZ27A!68gsCv27VrFkw1QvlNQctuoio627xWNJ3yaUsmdFsoaTulQL7Lme58J3+SADUjDkTBx6B+zfevzZ!zwU= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3090 In article <1960000608.737567575.955210.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>, anim8rfsk wrote: > shawn wrote: > > On Wed, 15 May 2024 23:08:20 -0700, The Horny Goat > > wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 16 May 2024 01:00:19 +0000, BTR1701 > >> wrote: > >> > >>> A California school district has settled a lawsuit with a teacher who > >>> says she was fired over her religious beliefs after she refused to use > >>> students' preferred pronouns, attorneys say. > >>> > >>> The Jurupa Unified School District in Riverside County agreed to pay > >>> $360,000 to Jessica Tapia, her attorneys at Advocates for Faith & > >>> Freedom said in a May 14 news release. > >>> > >>> The settlement closes a federal lawsuit Tapia filed last May that > >>> alleged the district's decision to fire Tapia violated her civil and > >>> 1st Amendment rights, according to the lawsuit. > >>> > >> Was she fired because she refused to use he/her or he/her/god knows > >> what? > > > > I am an Attack Helicopter and shall henceforth be referred to as such. > > I can remember when this pronoun discussion first started up many > > years ago. People deriding it often said they should be referred to as > > attack helicopters henceforth instead of he or she. > > > >> My question is of course designed to see if her "crime" was the same > >> one that brought Jordan Peterson to prominence or something else? > >> (Peterson said he'd use he/her as desired but wouldn't use a made up > >> pronoun) > > > > But “attack helicopter” isn’t pronouns Neither is a unicorn or a fairy but the 'progressive' gender lunatics are full of weirdos trying to claim they're 'neo-pronouns'. Hell some of them are even trying to use verbs as pronouns (and expecting you and me to go along with it because they say so).