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Subject: Re: CA Teacher Fired for Refusing to Use Preferred Pronouns; Wins Big
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 16:11:22 -0400
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On 5/17/2024 3:21 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On May 17, 2024 at 1:29:53 AM PDT, "trotsky" <gmsingh@email.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/16/24 1:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>   In article
>>>   <1960000608.737567575.955210.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
>>>     anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>   
>>>>   shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>>>>>   On Wed, 15 May 2024 23:08:20 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>   On Thu, 16 May 2024 01:00:19 +0000, BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid>
>>>>>>   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.