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Police Subjected to Pronoun Police
Powerline ^ | 7 Dec, 2019 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 12/07/2019 8:47:34 AM PST by MtnClimber

I recently gave a talk to a college class that began with each member of the class introducing himself or herself–which, in today’s academy, means stating one’s name and preferred pronouns. (As best I could tell, they all got their pronouns right.) I had assumed this type of silliness was limited to college campuses, but no. The Minnesota Sun reports: “Minneapolis Police Receive Mandatory Training on Gender Pronouns.”

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: genderdisphoria; minneapolice; minneapolis; minneapolisminnesota; minnesota
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1 posted on 12/07/2019 8:47:34 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

They are poop, poop, smelly scumbag.


2 posted on 12/07/2019 8:48:47 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
Forcing people to speak a certain way always reminds me of this scene from The Big Lift movie.
3 posted on 12/07/2019 8:57:04 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: MtnClimber

In Hungarian, the same word is used for he, she, and it. It’s an accented letter “o”. Gender must be inferred by the rest of the sentence. So to avoid controversy, I suggest that we do the same as the Hungarians. Maybe we should just use “o”.

So “He told her about it.” becomes “O told o about o.”

Why do I always have to think of everything?


4 posted on 12/07/2019 9:03:12 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: MtnClimber

I wonder what qualifies anyone to dictate a change to the language.

I know words are added from time to time, but people usually take up those changes voluntarily or of some necessity, not because they are dictated to.


5 posted on 12/07/2019 9:05:39 AM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: \/\/ayne

Just checked out the clip. Will save for later, looks good, Thanx for posting.


6 posted on 12/07/2019 9:17:11 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: MtnClimber

I once heard someone use the pronoun zir. I started looking around the room and the woman asked why I was doing that. I told her I was looking out for Zur and the Kodan Armada from “The Last Starfighter.” She wasn’t too happy about it.


7 posted on 12/07/2019 9:19:11 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: KrisKrinkle

> I wonder what qualifies anyone to dictate a change to the language. <

You just have to be a leftist. Oops! I meant to say “a progressive”. That’s another word the left has queered. Oops, again! I don’t think I can use “queered” that way anymore.

Anyway, if you’re a leftist can can make any old silly demand. And no one will question it, or push back. It’s just the way America rolls these days.


8 posted on 12/07/2019 9:25:41 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: MtnClimber
I keep expecting liberalism to collapse from the sheer weight of its stupidity. Sadly, it hasn’t happened yet.

I take the pessimistic view that "ze" and "hirz" will eventually be accepted into our language and incorporated into K-12 English curricula. Just as "BCE" (before the Communist era) and "CE" (Communist era) are rapidly replacing "BC" and "AD" in historical dating.

9 posted on 12/07/2019 9:36:27 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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The cable drama Billions has a character people refer to as "they."

At first you might not notice and wonder who the other characters are talking about. Then it's a little disturbing. But nobody slips up and says "her" (or "him" or makes a little joke about "it" or "zi" or "thir"). It's like a film set in the 19th century in which nobody makes the obvious reference to some character's race that people would have made all the time back then.

10 posted on 12/07/2019 9:44:27 AM PST by x
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Kind of makes one wonder why they would ever have any faith or belief in any police officer if they can’t figure out their very own Sex!!


11 posted on 12/07/2019 9:44:55 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Leaning Right

Use “Smurf”.


12 posted on 12/07/2019 9:47:09 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
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To: MtnClimber

These are all third person pronouns. They are used when speaking ABOUT the person in question, not in speaking to him/her/it/zem.

It is completely unacceptable to subject people to penalties for not using a word that someone likes. This is not a matter for law enforcement. They have succeeded in imposing their will on us normal people. They have won.


13 posted on 12/07/2019 10:15:21 AM PST by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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To: Fiji Hill

Does this mean those golden oldies need to be renamed? Zir’s a Rebel, Zhe Loves You, To Zim With Love, Walk Like a Zhe, etc


14 posted on 12/07/2019 10:22:55 AM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Leaning Right

I would simply refer to those “pronoun prissies” as apparently sentient blobs of protoplasm. Oh, wait! That might upset the trans terrestrial community.


15 posted on 12/07/2019 10:25:40 AM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: MtnClimber

Just call everything an “it.” Worked for Clinton.

rwood


16 posted on 12/07/2019 10:41:53 AM PST by Redwood71
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To: KrisKrinkle
This is the Marxist Left dictating this bull pucky.

Foretells how they will govern if they ever get their hands on the helm again.

They will govern as dictators do, by mandate under punishment of law.

Not as a free country where you don't have to use the correct pronoun if you don't want to.

17 posted on 12/07/2019 12:01:28 PM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: MtnClimber

I think the most applicable pronoun for these folks is “asshole”.


18 posted on 12/07/2019 12:33:18 PM PST by tbpiper
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To: MtnClimber
I identify as a differently abled, black, Spanish surnamed Native American lesbian woman trapped in the body of a cisgendered heterosexual white male of age and of size. I belong to, count them, ten different protected minority groups.

My personal pronouns are qxittre, sniyoo9, and xixzzert6, and if you mispronounce any of them, you will be guilty of ThoughtCrime and HateSpeech.

You have been warned.

19 posted on 12/07/2019 12:41:47 PM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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My personal pronouns are qxittre, sniyoo9, and xixzzert6, and if you mispronounce any of them, you will be guilty of ThoughtCrime and HateSpeech.

I've seen the term "Latinx" in the student newspaper at California State University, Fullerton. I think it means Latino, but then how do you pronounce it? Do you say it, lay-tinks, lattinks, Latin-X"??

20 posted on 12/07/2019 4:21:08 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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