Posted on 09/02/2022 9:56:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Richard Bugg has been a theater professor at Southern Utah University for 30 years. According to the Deseret News, he’s also suing his employer for infringing on his free speech rights. At issue? Bugg’s refusal to cave to the pronoun protocol.
The origin of the suit began on the first day of classes in the fall semester of 2021. A student reportedly told Bugg to use they/them pronouns. Bugg declined because of his personal beliefs but an agreement was reached with the student in which Bugg would perform the verbal gymnastics necessary to refer to the student by name only. Unfortunately, he slipped two or three times and used a female pronoun. Although he had tried to find a compromise, he accidentally committed the sin of using the wrong pronoun a few times.
This resulted in two complaints to the school’s Title IX office. The first complaint was from the aggrieved party. The second was from another student in the class who was offended on behalf of the first student. Naturally, this triggered an investigation, since that is what colleges do now. The outcome was the determination that Bugg had violated two school policies and was guilty of “discrimination and harassment based on gender identity,” the Deseret News reported. As if that was not dramatic enough, according to Bugg’s lawsuit, the school said his refusal to use the pronouns was so horrible that it denied the student equal access to education. How the college arrived at this conclusion is beyond me, and probably beyond most rational people.
Of course, there were sanctions and penance to be done to get back in the school’s good graces. For one, Bugg was to submit to education (read: re-education) about how using gender-neutral pronouns is now considered correct grammar.
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Ridiculing the ridiculous can be very subversive, which is what needs to happen to this nonsense.
I know a 3rd semester student who dropped a sociology class from the first day of that class. The teacher demanded that the students utilize proper english in all written papers but the contradicted that by demanding the use of they/them pronouns. There were a host of other unreasonable demands as well but I don’t recall them all. Essentially, they made the teacher unavailable to everything except for lectures.
This student hasn’t any bias toward anybody, but recognized the futility of that class and didn’t want the indoctrination.
Thumbs up to that student!
A KS school teacher just won settlement against her district for this.
Agreed!!! And it’s YOUR choice!
Better the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune than going along with outrageous nitwits in their crazy, even for a moment.
Laugh in their faces or else tell them they need to repent of the demonic influenced sin they are trading in ... but never go along.
Not I. If speaking about multiple people, 'they' and 'their' can be quite appropriate. However, neither of these are singular pronouns.
No. I believe you miss the real point of all of this insanity. You are required to say things that you know are absolutely not true, and also you must believe and articulate mutually inconsistent things. People are being forcefully psychologically conditioned. It is quite clear by now, that this conditioning is actually physically harmful to individuals. Even if you do not believe the lie, being forced to say the lie over and over is not healthy. You will ultimately be damaged in very real ways by being forced to pretend to believe things that you know are not true.
The only other appropriate response IMO, is gut-busting laughter. I mean real, vocal laughter at the nonsense these people pretend to believe.
Prescriptivists would know that the pronoun "they" indicates multiple people. Descriptivists would accept the pronouns that Professor Bugg used as the ordinary usage of millions of Americans. It is bizarre that anyone at all accepts this recent fad of inventing new grammatical rules to indulge a mental illness.
Let’s avoid hurt feeeeewings by referring to each other as apparently sentient blobs of protoplasm. But those who identify as trans terrestrial would be offended. The hustle never ends.
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