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Call me 'ze,' not 'he': University [of Tennessee] wants everyone to use 'gender inclusive' pronouns
FoxNews.com ^ | August 27, 2015 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 08/27/2015 11:44:12 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

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By Todd Starnes Published August 27, 2015 FoxNews.com Facebook106 Twitter35 livefyre36 Email Print University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

Educators in the Volunteer State are very concerned that students might be offended by the usage of traditional pronouns like she, he, him and hers, according to a document from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

“With the new semester beginning and an influx of new students on campus, it is important to participate in making our campus welcoming and inclusive for all,” wrote Donna Braquet in a posting on the university’s website. “One way to do that is to use a student’s chosen name and their correct pronouns.”

Braquet, who is director of the university’s Pride Center, suggested using a variety of gender neutral pronouns instead of traditional pronouns.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: educrat; liberal; nonsense; stupid
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To: Timber Rattler

Ze? O Dios mio!

21 posted on 08/27/2015 11:55:29 AM PDT by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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To: jonascord
Tell me, again, that we shouldn't gas everyone on the bottom half of the Bell curve, in self defense.

Bottom half of what normal distribution? Seriously ... these aren't 2-digit IQ people. The 2 digit IQ people don't come up with this stuff. They're too busy working in a factory or something. This is the product of ignorant, arrogant, miseducated smart people. It's a great tragedy.

22 posted on 08/27/2015 11:55:44 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: Timber Rattler

I don’t care what Lawanda wants!


23 posted on 08/27/2015 11:57:18 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: BenLurkin

Is this something out of Dr. Seuss? Like maybe, “The Lorax”?

Or maybe the Star-Bellied Sneetch.


24 posted on 08/27/2015 11:59:53 AM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Just when I thought I had the regular stuff learned; they up and throw me another set of conjugation to learn.

I resign. The human race is lost before it even got as far as the finish line.


25 posted on 08/27/2015 12:00:20 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Timber Rattler

Isn’t it good to know that America has solved piddling problems like plague, famine, and the like and can now handle the serious problems such as terrifying pronouns?


26 posted on 08/27/2015 12:00:42 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Timber Rattler

I prefer the term ‘It’, as in Caitlyn is an it.


27 posted on 08/27/2015 12:00:51 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Timber Rattler

What happened to Y’all?


28 posted on 08/27/2015 12:01:32 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Timber Rattler

I had to put up with these stupid liberals while I went to school at UT. I see they have gone and hired some more idiots to take the places of the ones that retired. I had more than one run in with the libs while going to college at Tennessee. Lucky, there were enough of the Right leaning faculty to keep them in check back thirty five years ago.


29 posted on 08/27/2015 12:02:13 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Timber Rattler

American colleges don’t teach. They promote a leftist agenda.


30 posted on 08/27/2015 12:02:18 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Timber Rattler

This only affects English. Other languages have no such issues.

The rest of the world laughs, literally, at buffoons who do this.


31 posted on 08/27/2015 12:03:40 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Timber Rattler

I prefer the acronym based on She He It or Transgendered: S.H.I.T.


32 posted on 08/27/2015 12:04:07 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Rennes Templar

It’s not just Tennessee. We’re dealing with it in Utah, too.

But they don’t tell you in the memo about the catch-22, which is that most transgenders don’t want to self-disclose, they want everyone to already know that even though the class roll says Bruce (legal name), and the person answers in a baritone voice and has an adam’s apple bigger than a baseball, they prefer to be called Sheila and “she”. So, unless you have access to certain parts of the person’s file, how are you supposed to know what their preferred name and gender are, unless you A) ask, and risk offending them; or B) take a guess, and risk getting it wrong and talking to OEO.


33 posted on 08/27/2015 12:04:32 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (Bear His image. Bring His message. Be the Church.)
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To: Timber Rattler

They need to be tossed out of the SEC just for that!!


34 posted on 08/27/2015 12:06:41 PM PDT by mothball
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To: Timber Rattler
Is Brucie now a "tree" ???


35 posted on 08/27/2015 12:11:37 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: BenLurkin

English was improved by simplifying pronouns, dropping thee and thou for simply you and me.
Adding a whole new set of pronouns BACK to the language to suit a small minority of the mentally ill is insane.


36 posted on 08/27/2015 12:15:01 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Timber Rattler
Braquet, who is director of the university’s Pride Center,....

Ah, we found the source of the problem. An individual with no real academic accomplishments who draws a check from the university so that they can sit around devising this kind of crap. How does the Pride Center prepare any of the students for a career?
37 posted on 08/27/2015 12:17:25 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Timber Rattler

Just a usual Rant:

All this homosexualization/gender “theory” is straight out of Marxist ideology to destroy Reason and Logic-—erase Christian Worldview/Traditions in children so they can erase the idea of Individual Natural Rights from God——the ONLY theology/philsophy which gives people FREE WILL and FREEDOM-—and AUTONOMY-—the ONLY worldview which created the Age of Reason and Modern Science. They are trying to intentionally destroy Truth/Science/Biology/God——so children return to the pagan “tribal” mindset——Inca mentality where the wheel and iron would NEVER be “thought” of.

They need little children removed from their biological “parents” (creativity/individual “thinking”)-—those who are genetically connected to the past and future where their bonding and connection and Real Life human interaction with both males/females create RATIONAL, INTELLIGENT children capable of all relationships, who have Common Sense and can figure out when the State makes them into Slaves.

Fichte/Wundt/Marx created the Prussian system of artificial “group think” “education” which is mandatory removal from the Natural Family so it is IMPOSSIBLE for children to have a Worldview of a Lincoln or a Mark Twain or a Ben Franklin or Washington, etc.-—all who NEVER left the Family Unit until AFTER age 7—if even then—and then, for ONLY a FEW hours.

They had TRUE ROLE MODELS and REAL LIFE interactions where autonomy and independence could be instilled (not dependence which Prussian schools FORCE, along with mass CONFORMITY (group think)). True Role Models of human interaction of both male/female (with Love) where children could learn REALITY and Autonomy and self-sufficiency and how to “Love” (self-sacrifice). (The Qualities which formed the GREATEST, FREEST COUNTRY in the history of Man.

Get your children OFF of the TV/Movies (artificial control of emotions-—where their brain is stifled and true human interaction is destroyed and truncated-—and so they (the Hollywood elites who were sodomizing the Corey boys ) can posit the “correct” desires and emotions in your little children-—to make them total CONFORMISTS to the Satanic ethics of these Hollywood sodomites who want the boys.....like John Maynard Keynes who bragged in his letters where to find little boys for their homosexual orgies (look it up)-—or like the Afghanis adult males-—the Saudi Adult males (Walid Shoebat) -—it is ALL about the “Boyrent.com-——to normalize that desire for sodomy in little boys—like with those Bolsheviks/Communist mentality-—which is what forced “Pride Days” in anal sex is all about-—it was put INTO SCHOOLS 30 years ago so they could NORMALIZE nihilism and Satanism (vice) which always collapses cultures.

It is to collapse civil society-—segregate women and males (destroy all unity-—create hate between male/female/child/ethinic groups, etc).

Tyrannies need to promote HATE between TRUE DIVERSITY which is male/female-—to destroy the Natural Family which will destroy all Common Sense and Emotional development of children.

It is to create a Marxist utopia filled with emotional cripples who are SO IRRATIONAL they believe “snow is black”, boys are girls, etc., where there are no biological connections in little children so the State becomes Mommy and Daddy and children raised in these artificial systems don’t KNOW any better.

They become the “Happy Slaves” which Fichte stated they would become when they are programmed since 4 that “snow is black” (with repetition of Lies and misinformation-—Heather has two Mommies-—Daddy’s Roommate——so the most UNNATURAL things become normalized——like sodomy to the little harem boys in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia-—where “mature” males love the boys for sexual recreation (or the goats) and woman are despised and mutilated, and for breeding the boys only.

Segregated cultures -—one based on hate and dysfunctional, vile use of children-—create slave, socialized cultures-—so divided they are easily controlled by the elites through drugs, sex and bread and circuses. Vice creates slaves-—as does ignorance.

This “it” removal of Truth/Biology and ALL TRADITIONS of Christianity is to regress us back to the paganism of Ba’al—where orgies with little children and blood sacrifice of babies (PP) is “normal” again——
....oh....we are allowing the Satanists to normalize Satanism in our children with TV/Movies/SCOTUS Satanists and their complete control of “schools”.


38 posted on 08/27/2015 12:23:03 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: Timber Rattler

Newspeak.


39 posted on 08/27/2015 12:27:22 PM PDT by OKSooner (Chamberlain at least loved his country, please don't insult his memory by comparing him to 0.)
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To: OKSooner

Yes, very Orwellian. We have been warned.


40 posted on 08/27/2015 12:33:49 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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