Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: CA Teacher Fired for Refusing to Use Preferred Pronouns; Wins Big in Lawsuit Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 16:11:22 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 67 Message-ID: References: <1960000608.737567575.955210.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <17d0396500cadaaa$27$3113228$cad58068@news.newsdemon.com> Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 22:11:20 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="684d9e430542f7425bc1e1d862305ac5"; logging-data="2478408"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19OCD22uYWcZA3wCRhQOUMma+riHLktPos=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:1sdrcz6+B2jTGVNBheFA21bvtAU= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4552 On 5/17/2024 3:21 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > On May 17, 2024 at 1:29:53 AM PDT, "trotsky" wrote: > >> On 5/16/24 1:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> 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). >> >> >> Anything that moves society forward is progressive. Anything that >> doesn't is regressive. > > Exactly, Hutt. This is first time in recent memory that you've managed to say > something truthful and accurate. All this gender bullshit and people using > "fairyself" pronouns doesn't move society forward in any way, shape, or form. > All it does is cater to mental illness and cause problems for the normal > people. It's objectively regressive, which is why I refer to the people who > advocate for it as 'progressives' in sarcastic quotes because nine times out > of ten, if a 'progressive' is advocating for a thing, that thing is some > fucked up nonsense that's only designed to ruin some part of the societal > cohesion we've built up over centuries. Iirc, you support, e.g., the relatively recent demise of the masculine as the neuter personal pronoun (replaced by"s/he", "his or her", etc.). At one time, that too was "progressive" doctrine.