One of Trump's judicial nominees - a man seeking a LIFETIME appointment to the bench - being questioned by Republican Senator John Kennedy yesterday. It does not go well.
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I know. That was my entire point. In the exact post you quoted. In America these ideas are held by a few on campuses so why orient an entire party against that?
That being said I now have people here talking out of both sides of their mouth. “Oh it’s not a thing in Ontario” “Except at work where you are compelled to use it”.
1) If it is required anywhere it is compelled. What is your logic otherwise? It seems to be “only at work” which still makes the compulsion issue true
2) Nowhere in the vague language of the bill is it codified that gender pronouns are explicitly limited to “they”. If someone is offended by a pronoun they can lodge a complaint. It doesn’t matter if it’s he/she/they/xir/your majesty. It’s a very simple mechanism.
3) The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal does law enforcement around exactly these types of things. It’s the whole reason they exist as a government body. Usually it’s for racial discrimination and they typically issue fines or levies to individuals or businesses.
I personally do not have an issue with calling someone a pronoun if it were a request between myself and an individual. Gov’t shouldn’t be enforcing language that is largely socially driven. To me it’s the difference between not saying the n-word and the language changing from what’s broadly acceptable (from negro, to coloured, to black, to African American, back to black etc.)
If you use someone's gender identity as a basis for discrimination, it's illegal. If you mock or harass someone at work who is transgender by deliberately calling them the opposite of what they identify as, you get in trouble. This is limited to male, female, and neutral pronouns, because they're in the fucking languages we speak. Nobody is compelled to use weird made up pronouns that are not actual words in our official languages. The law being vague is a problem, but that's why we have courts.
Are you upset that you can't call black men 'boy' at work?
Last edited by kedawa; 15 Dec 2017 at 09:45 AM.
So are there any examples of this happening so far
Because it always sounded like bullshit to me
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