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Posted on 08/27/2015 11:44:12 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
pronouns Todd Starnes
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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Cute but from a perspective of historical accuracy it’s wrong. Jus’ sayin’.
Nope, it’s just the next phase of
“reality makes me uncomfortable so I’ll do what I can to undefine it”
Ya know, if they could, they would.
Zeeze peeps are cray cray.
Why on God's earth are tax dollars funding a "Pride" center????
In machine shops they use a product called Dykem Blue. It now has to be changed to Pride Blue! In Holland you no longer call a an artificial levee a “dike”. It has to be called a “pride”
No matter how they change the pronouns, the gender(s) remain the same.
There are times gender-specific pronouns are mandatory.
There are times nutcases run loose at the universities.
I would not be surprised to learn that these recommended pronoun changes originated in some womens’ studies course.
Your tax dollars at work. At the beginning of the federal system, education was local control and local tax paid. The Northwest Territory Act (Great Lakes States), was a landmark when it allocated land to fund local education. Again, though, this was local funding and control.
Next great push was ‘Land Grant Colleges’ that were state funded to encourage the ‘practical sciences’ of agriculture, engineering etc. over the ‘classical arts’ / ‘liberal arts’ of the already established universities and colleges. Still, these were state funded and run.
Then we get to the 20th Century and we start having FEDERAL Government funding of research for generally specific items, mainly military and military related. Neither this nor the ‘GI Bill’ for bringing the WW2 Veterans into the education system rather than directly into the labor market, brought much if any control over the overall education system.
Arguably, it was the establishment of a Federal Executive presence in Washington, DC for Education, that put the camel nose in the tent. The first signs of that came as far back as 1867 when Congress established a department within the Department of the Interior to help the states improve their public schools. This was an advisory agency only, like agriculture agents. From this initial ingress came the Cabinet Department of HEW (1953) out of the Truman Administration but embraced by Eisenhower.
From this point forward, the Federal Government was actively encouraging, influencing and at times controlling various aspects of local and higher education. All of this picked up steam as the national teacher’s unions and educrats started seeing that influence in the Federal Government and the then dominant legislative political party of the Democrats led to more money and power over often obstreperous and irritating individual states and local school establishments.
The modern Federally dominated education establishment came from, in my opinion, 3 different impulsions. First was the Supreme Court case of “Brown vs Board of Education” in 1954 which made racial segregation, by state legal action, unconstitutional. This led to the Federal forced desegregation and thus a degree of Federal Control.
Second was the passage of the United States Education Amendments of 1972 which included “Title IX” which reads; “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” This has been a key expander of Federal control over education as it has been viewed to allow oversight and control if an institution receives even a single dollar of Federal money. In terms of this posting we also see the expansion of the term sex being expanded far beyond its general usage as understood in 1972.
Third is the establishment of a stand-alone Department of Education in 1979 in the split of HEW into DofED and Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS). This locked in an incentivization of the bureaucracy to be intrusive and controlling from the top of the pyramid in Washington DC. Every action by this bureaucracy reduces the ability for more localized control on the part of community and state boards.
So now this brings us to a, almost certainly, Federally-funded ‘Title IX’ enforcement office, University of Tennessee – Knoxville’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The defined purpose of these educrats is to enhance the growth of progressive treatment of the smallest of minorities and to depricate traditional values.
Wonderful progress over the years that we should feel proud and gay in a veritable rainbow of acceptance!
This kind of idiocy is a prime example of why college/university tuitions and fees are way too high.
Students have to pay for this kind of crap.
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Of course, an earlier generation of these nutcases were trying the same things decades ago when they were trying to get sexist pronouns changed. Try as they may, they failed to get others to join in.
If ze used zhis, vill Europeans think ve are mocking them?
Ze.
Pronounced ZEE
As in ZOMBIE
I will not comply with their Zombification of America.
Glad my tax dollar$ aren’t going to support this horsecrap!
Ya know, some just might be able to
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Wow. This is early. The Volunteers usually begin to question their sexuality after the 3rd Saturday in October, when Alabama stomps a mudhole in the Big Orange.
“This is the product of ignorant, arrogant, miseducated smart people.”
I call it ‘educated beyond their capacity.’
Stick your finger in the Pride!
It would be easier just to fire Braquet and anyone else promoting this nonsense.
Language “problem” solved in one easy step!
“If I Ran a Zoo “ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Ran_the_Zoo
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