Posted on 05/16/2022 10:27:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It was long thought that “words will never hurt” you. That, as it turns out, was wrong.
In fact, not only can words hurt, but you can be injured by your own — more precisely, the pronouns you employ.
Just ask a trio of Wisconsin middle schoolers.
As reported by Green Bay’s Channel 2, three boys at Kiel Middle School have been charged with sexual harassment.
Parents claim the boys are under investigation by the district for alluding to a classmate with the wrong pronouns.
Last month, moms and dads were informed their children had violated Title IX by way of gender-based harassment. The youngsters had name-called on the basis of sex.
Succinctly:
The district claims the boys were not referring to the student’s requested pronouns of “they” and “them.”
Following the news, one mother accompanied her son to school for a discussion with officials. She insisted the pronoun issue was confusing for him and that he wasn’t obligated to comply.
Speaking to WBAY, Rose Rabidoux slammed the situation:
“Sexual harassment, that’s rape, that’s incest, that’s inappropriate touching. What did my son do? He’s a little boy. He told me that he was being charged with sexual harassment for not using the right pronouns.”
As for anyone’s demand to be invoked via “they”:
“It’s plural. It doesn’t make sense to him. I said so, I told him to call them by their [name].”
Attorneys are now involved. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s Luke Berg lambasts the whole thing as hogwash:
“It’s not sexual harassment under Title IX, under their own policy, under federal law, and it’s probably a First Amendment violation. Almost certainly, if that’s their theory, that solely using the wrong pronoun…that would be a First Amendment violation.”
Furthermore:
“Eighth-graders shouldn’t be subjected to this kind of investigation or this type of reputational harm for something that on its face clearly doesn’t violate Title IX in sexual harassment. Their own policy says that, if on the face of the complaint the conduct — even if proven — wouldn’t amount to sexual harassment, it should be immediately dismissed. And that’s what should have happened here, and it didn’t.”
To demand how a student be referenced seemingly constitutes a case of compelled speech. But it appears compelled speech is increasingly endorsed by adolescents and institutions:
Students Decry College’s Paltry Pronoun Provisions — There’s Not Even a ‘Mushroomself’
For some, it’s downright religious:
Christian Church Leads Prayer to the 'God of Pronouns,' the 'Great They/Them' Who Breastfeeds
https://t.co/36aVkeNQxR— RedState (@RedState) April 8, 2022
Back to Wisconsin, the Kiel Area School District’s Superintendent Brad Ebert has issued a statement:
The KASD prohibits all forms of bullying and harassment in accordance with all laws, including Title IX, and will continue to support ALL students regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, sex (including transgender status, change of sex or gender identity), or physical, mental, emotional or learning disability (“Protected Classes”) in any of its student programs and activities; this is consistent with school board policy. We do not comment on any student matters.
As for pronouns, of course, they’re words generally spoken in one’s absence. So whether or not one’s orders are followed will likely never be known to them. Yet, as we continue to learn, it’s of the utmost import.
In fact, mouth sounds ringing out away from a person affect their very safety:
Cartoon Network Schools Kids on Pronouns: They Define You and Make You Feel Safe
https://t.co/Ur4dznYX6W— RedState (@RedState) December 16, 2020
It’s an increasingly sophisticated world.
And in Wisconsin — as well as all of America — there is surely much more to come.
The principal is a predator.
sounds like forced speech.
clear violation of the first amendment
Can someone show how a tolerant you do your thing and I’ll do mine attitude concerning leftist ideas has worked out so far for conservatives?
Did anyone ever imagine things would get this crazy?
The world is insane! Protect the right to free speech, even though offensive! Protect the Bill of Rights! Solid!
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As a culture, as modern life made basics easier, we’ve overindulged the next generations continuing the fantasy world of a childhood long into adulthood. It’s ultimately destructive and invites chaos.
I went on a rant about that on another thread the other day. “Live and let live” is just an excuse that Libertarians and marginal conservatives use to never have to confront societal degeneracy, i.e. sin. Some of it is because of cowardice or laziness, and some of it is because of their own sinful behaviors that they don’t want to address. “Live and let live” is nothing but hedonism.
American-style liberty is NOT a license to behave any way you want. John Adams said it best: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Our nation’s founders knew that unprecedented freedom would just become an excuse to do evil unless the People were morally upright and exercised self-control, driven by an external moral code (given to them by God). The more “live and let live” moral laziness you have, the farther the country sinks into immorality, eventually leading to lost freedoms as government clamps down to try to restore civility. Of course, today government is actually promoting the evil, instead of fighting it, which just accelerates the process of national decline.
We got to this insane point we’re at now not because of the maniacal leftists, but because of the “live and let live” laziness among many marginal conservatives. Evil never sleeps; it just does what it does. Evil only prevails when the good people fail to resist it. As Edmund Burke said (and my tagline): “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Looking the other way in an attempt to demonstrate how “non judgmental” you are only dooms our culture and our nation.
I didn’t, but I wonder if it will get worse?
All public schools must be closed down. Period.
It all stems from the Teacher’s Union president Weingarten.
Did you ever hear her speak (shriek)?
I think I read she’s a LGBT-something or other.
What ever happened to “Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.”
These days, I remember what the original meaning, #2 below, of 'SOPHISTICATE' was before the Pop.Culture sophisticated it away to their use!
1. (tr) to make (someone) less natural or innocent, as by education
2. to pervert or corrupt (an argument, etc) by sophistry
Their goal is to force people to say lies knowingly, to contradict the direct evidence of their senses, so that truth is destroyed and validity is only which lie is politically useful.
There is no possibility of "reform" until the criminals against humanity are brought to justice.
It’s COURT Time again!
Call them all A$$Holes.
I do believe that all 57 genders have one.
I haven't encountered any of this stuff at a job, yet, maybe because lately my jobs tend to be low-paying blue collar work.
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