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NYC Subway Bans ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ to Be ‘Sensitive to Gender Identity’
Washington Free Beacon ^
| Nov 10, 2017
| Elizabeth Harrington
Posted on 11/10/2017 9:59:17 AM PST by Thalean
"The common greeting will be replaced with "non-gendered terms," such as "passengers," "riders," or "everyone."
MTA spokesman Jon Weinstein said banning "ladies and gentlemen" would provide riders with "clearer information."
"We're fundamentally changing the way we talk with riders to give them better and clearer information," he said."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bluezones; feminism; homosexualagenda; nyc; socialjustice; urban
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In my mind PC culture has nothing to do with "respect" or "empathy", it's just a bald-faced ploy for control. Control the language, control the thought. It's a classic Marxist tactic dating back to the book "Rules for Radicals" (of course the trick is much older, but that's when Marxists became employing it en masse).
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posted on
11/10/2017 9:59:17 AM PST
by
Thalean
To: Thalean
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posted on
11/10/2017 10:01:06 AM PST
by
Don Corleone
(.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
To: Thalean
How about, “You people”?......................
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11/10/2017 10:02:35 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Thalean
Maybe the best thing to do would be start using the southern greeting of Hey, Y’all!
But that would be about as accepted in offering sweetened iced tea. I made the observation years ago that doing so would have required them to admit the south did something right!
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posted on
11/10/2017 10:02:46 AM PST
by
mazda77
To: Thalean
NYC and populace submits to scum...
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posted on
11/10/2017 10:03:03 AM PST
by
WKUHilltopper
(WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
To: Thalean
I am offended that NYC isn’t calling me a Lady.
FUNYC.
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posted on
11/10/2017 10:04:02 AM PST
by
BarbM
(BarbMn President Trump tells the TRUTH loud and clear.)
To: Red Badger
Guys and broads.
Dudes and dudettes.
...
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posted on
11/10/2017 10:04:16 AM PST
by
GingisK
To: Thalean
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posted on
11/10/2017 10:04:48 AM PST
by
Paulie
(America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
To: Thalean
I've always though "Ladies and Gentleman" had archaic origins that implied a level of proper etiquette and behavior. Oftentimes, people addressed as "ladies and gentlemen" were anything but based on their behavior, but at least the term showed an expectation of proper behavior.
Today's Newspeak dictionary wants to remove any remnant of the past's expectation of proper behavior.
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11/10/2017 10:06:22 AM PST
by
SSS Two
To: Thalean
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posted on
11/10/2017 10:06:42 AM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: Thalean
Liberalism=regression to the lowest common denominator.
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posted on
11/10/2017 10:06:51 AM PST
by
Fungi
(What the hell is a fungus?)
To: Thalean
Good Morning to all you Innies, Outies and Freaks.....
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posted on
11/10/2017 10:07:31 AM PST
by
Vlad The Inhaler
(United We Stand - Divided We Fall. Remember: Diversity is the opposite of unity.)
To: Thalean
Nothing to do with “clearer information,” and they know it. This is to force people to accept the idea that there are NOT two sexes.
Interesting. On one hand they say there are not 2 sexes, on the other hand, they condemn everything that men, males, boys do. Eh? gender binary when it’s convenient, no gender binary when it interferes with their agenda.
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11/10/2017 10:08:18 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Man and Woman He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply....)
To: Thalean
Now why would they draw that conclusion? If a trans-woman is really a woman and a trans-man is really a man, there isn't anything insensitive in calling them what they claim to be. Silly, yes, insensitive, no.
I agree, the issue is control, not courtesy. "You will speak the way we tell you to speak" is starting to lose its effect and certain proggies are getting worried about that. The term "racist", for example, has so lost its sting that the language Nazis have upped the ante to "White Supremacist". What happens when that experiences a similar staleness will be amusing to watch.
To: Thalean
“...it’s just a bald-faced ploy for control....”
That is all that the socialist left is all about. Power and control. Nothing new. The theme of the DemocRAT playbook. Smacks of Alinsky and Karl Marx for sure.
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11/10/2017 10:09:19 AM PST
by
EagleUSA
To: Thalean
Here it comes, they reelected the Marxist with the fake name so now he’s going to go all out with the lefts idea of utopia. “Male and female is offensive! Heterosexuality is offensive! Let’s ban churches and Christianity because it is offensive! Let’s tax white people more because of white privilege! Let’s excuse black people who commit crimes by blaming it on racism!” I grew up there, there is not enough money in this universe to ever make me want to go back. Just thinking about that city now gets me nauseous, it’s it completely infested and infected now by leftist vomitus and it just baffles me how anyone could go there for vacation. It’s like visiting a graveyard.
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11/10/2017 10:11:50 AM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan from taking office.)
To: Thalean
Taking culture, class and polite terminology out of society?
Sure. Why not.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/10/2017 10:13:51 AM PST
by
ripnbang
("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
To: Thalean
How about “Ladies and gentlemen and ladies and gentlemen who mutilate their genitals”?
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11/10/2017 10:14:23 AM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan from taking office.)
To: Thalean
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11/10/2017 10:15:06 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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