> Again, the school got a restraining order. He was sent to jail for violating the order, not for his refusal of pronouns which is ridiculous.
The school got restraining order because he raised pronouns issue, Burke interrupted a church service held to mark the school’s 260th anniversary, which was attended by clergy, staff, past and present pupils, parents, and board members. The issue was about pronouns to begin with.
The root cause and restrain order which was violated by him was about pronouns to be used at specific class of people raised by Burke in the church function. Its all about pronouns.
The issue is getting suspended for refusing to comply with pronouns.
The guy can't teach at that school because he won't use pronouns. Isn't that bad enough?
So what does he do? Maybe he felt the only way to bring attention to his issue was to escalate matters. Make a scene.
Forget about the jail bit. It follows as a consequence of his actions after. The jail part is the hook in the story that brought the publicity, not the main part.
My guess is this happened at a state school. So he's a state employee, teachers union nationwide bla bla. He thinks the union will back him which is not a given.
A private school would have handled it differently.
I have realized over time that its somehow the nerds who are often most susceptible to such propaganda.. I have some theories about how this came to be - but that would be a major digression :lol
Make a new thread and let's see what you got
I'm talking about people forcing their views on others. Think about it from both the sides instead of just one side. The person who was born one gender and wants everyone to call him as her or whatever one day is pushing his/her view on others by forcing others to bend to their whims. That is major entitlement imo. They are the person who decided to be called differently. Even if the other party does not want to call them by their preferred pronoun they should be the ones who should compromise because they are the ones who believe they are different.
Do you have a name? Can people call you something else?
Let's say someone keeps changing their pronoun as and when they feel different will you keep up with their antics? I'm sure you will say yes and good for you.
Won't matter what you call this lot because either way works.
This pronouns bit is amusing for me. The hard part is remembering what to call them. Helps if there are visual cues. Online is harder and requires more familiarity.
I remember this lab tech who in my first year was a 'he' but a few years later became a 'she'. Visibily. Long hair with lipstick. It was a surprise.
This guy is very interesting, reminds me in a way of a Slavic Ashish Nandy.
I was going through the democrat manifesto as the election was nearing and searched for the word Indian just to get a sense of what they thought of us.
To my surprise, i got more than 90 hits. Thinking oh what is this? Then as I went through it they were actually referring to Native Americans.
There was only one mention of India in that whole manifesto.
