Welcome to the madhouse California: Political correctness is out of control!
Nick Givas – The Daily Signal Jan 23, 2019
“We are using the phrase ‘they’ and replacing other designations so that it’s a gender-neutral designation of ‘they,’” says state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Calif. Pictured: Jackson speaks on equal pay and the California Fair Pay Act at North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Library on Dec. 29, 2015. (Photo: Araya Diaz/Getty Images)
Spiked Online editor Brendan O’Neill reacted to a California state Senate committee banning the words “he” and “she” during hearings and said it’s an example of political correctness run amok.
“It’s crazy. It really shows how far the politically correct lobby are willing to go in terms of policing language,” O’Neill said on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday.
“They now want to control not just hateful language and racist language, which we all agree is a bad thing, but everyday speech. ‘He’ and ‘she.’ The words that people use all the time in everyday conversation to describe men and women. They want to dig down so far into how we speak, and ultimately into how we think, that they are willing to ban the most common words in the English language.”
Democratic state Senate Judiciary Chair Hannah-Beth Jackson spoke about the change on Thursday, which affects her committee, and said it’s a matter of gender.
“We are now a state recognizing the nonbinary designation as a gender,” Jackson said. “We are using the phrase ‘they’ and replacing other designations so that it’s a gender-neutral designation of ‘they.’ Basically, that’s the primary reforms and revisions to the committee rules.”
Jackson was a victim of her own rules, however, when she referred to her old grammar teacher as a “her” instead of “them.”
“We are using what my grammar teacher would have heart attack over. We are using the phrase ‘they.’ My grammar teacher’s long gone. And I won’t be hearing from her. If any of you—”
She was cut off mid-sentence from several people in the audience who corrected her and insisted she use the words “them” or “they.”
“There is kind of transgender extremism at moment. Now, I’m fully in favor of trans rights. I think trans people should have same rights as everybody else. But there is this kind of trans extremism, which presumes that anyone who uses words like ‘he’ or ‘she’ is being disrespectful to trans people or disrespectful to nonbinary people,” O’Neill said.
“I think it is going to spread,” he continued. “We’ve seen similar developments in the United Kingdom, for example, where feminists who are critical of transgender politics are hounded and harassed and their meetings are closed down, simply because they think we should still have the right to talk about men and women.”
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Hi Angelica
I’m inclined to go with Jordan Peterson regarding titles and address. If someone wants to be addressed as “he”,”she”, “sir” or one of approximately 70 alternatives, sure; whatever you want to identify as is fine. BUT…if the government insists as a legal matter that you MUST address someone by a certain title,that changes everything, because you’re now putting control into government hands, and eventually we’ll all be recognized and addressed by a single non-gender, generic title. And then the rainbow “diversity” flag will be extinguished. Nifty trick on the NWO “list of Dirty Trojan Horse Tricks” list.
The people making a big fuss about pronouns are usually virtue signaling. Actual trans people prefer to be referred to as “he” or “she”…
We don’t take hormones and have surgery just to identify as something “non binary” and gender fluid.
Certainly I would prefer if people think of me as a “she” but if they don’t then I’m not going to make a fuss about it:
If it wasn’t intended as an insult that it wasn’t one and if it was intended as such then reacting is the wrong thing to do.