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Gender Pronouns Can Be Tricky on Campus. Harvard Is Making Them Stick. The push for personal pronouns like “they/them” and “ze/hir” can ignite a power struggle in college classrooms. The Kennedy School of Government’s solution? Stickers.
New York Times ^ | February 19, 2020 | Anemona Hartocollis

Posted on 02/19/2020 4:46:57 AM PST by karpov

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41 posted on 02/19/2020 5:33:24 AM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: txrefugee

There are very easy ways to avoid problems like that. I had a “HR” problem with a black lesbian female back in the late 90’s. Never again. The problem never has a chance of getting started with me. There is too much recon of employee candidates before they are seen by me to allow that to happen. However, I will overtly discriminate while it is still legal and still defends the values of western civilization.


42 posted on 02/19/2020 5:33:42 AM PST by RubinBoomer (Please be nice. I am new here. I'm open to doing things the FR way, just need to know.)
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To: karpov

These indoctrinated Harvard morons will graduate and go to lucrative positions in the government beaurocracy where they will do harmful things to America for decades to come. I’m hopeful that they remain so crippled up with indignation over trivialities that they are unable to do real harm but I have my doubts we’ll be so lucky.


43 posted on 02/19/2020 5:36:02 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: karpov

When the mental hospitals were closed fifty years ago, schizophrenia went mainstream in American culture. If Trump gets a second term, the purge must be ruthless and comprehensive.


44 posted on 02/19/2020 5:36:46 AM PST by allendale (.)
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To: karpov

“Kommen Ze Hir”? Sounds German to me.


45 posted on 02/19/2020 5:36:49 AM PST by rfp1234
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To: ealgeone

My preferred, “God and Emperor”
I will call others “Heons” and “Sheons” or “Peons” communally


46 posted on 02/19/2020 5:38:18 AM PST by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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To: karpov

Call me Ishmael.


47 posted on 02/19/2020 5:43:20 AM PST by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: karpov

“I’m not an idiot like ‘they/them’.”


48 posted on 02/19/2020 5:44:48 AM PST by moovova
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To: Gen.Blather
This article got me thinking...what is the end-game of all this pronoun stuff and labeling/self-identifying?

I can understand a woman not wanting to be called "he" and visa versa. I can sort of understand women asking to people to use "those folks" instead of "those guys." But now...self-labeling?

During periods of incredible harshness and statism, the rulers want to eliminate many classes of people. I see that sort of evil lurking in many Dems (no surprise..,they DID give us the Klan). I also believe these Dems don't not really like all this cicgen stuff or minorities or gays etc...just like Putin uses "Christianity" to win over useful idiots, I think these Dems generally use the aforementioned lot as influencers, and violent rabble.

But once these Dems have achieved supreme power...well...at the risk of sounding tin hat-like, I can see why universities encourage this kind of labeling....it helps round up these folks when they're no longer useful......now where have we seen this before?


49 posted on 02/19/2020 5:44:58 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: karpov

“Harvard’s renowned John F. Kennedy School of Government”

Really?

Those losers have an almost unequalled history of failure.

Sorry, but you take away STEM, and Harvard has become just as weak and featureless as any one of the other lib arts fields of mud.


50 posted on 02/19/2020 5:46:45 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: RubinBoomer

Racist Bill Clinton was not trying to help the black community with that, he was trying to forever hamstring them with poor English skills And quotaed set aside jobs that would keep them from advancement


51 posted on 02/19/2020 5:48:18 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: Petrosius

Well put....


52 posted on 02/19/2020 5:50:52 AM PST by unread (A REPUBLIC..! if you can keep it....)
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To: rlmorel

Fountain pen cartridges? Man, are you showing your age!

Back about the 6th or 7th Grade, I somehow acquired a Parker with integral ink bladder and the little lever you used to pump the ink in from the jar that sat in the hole in the top, right corner of your desk.

Geezers,we are!


53 posted on 02/19/2020 5:54:36 AM PST by BwanaNdege ( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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To: karpov

Hillsdale. Grove City. There must be a few decent colleges left.


54 posted on 02/19/2020 5:59:13 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sbiiorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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To: BwanaNdege

LOL...I had someone further up the food chain snicker at me in a good-natured way about having a ballpoint pen on my person at all times...:)


55 posted on 02/19/2020 6:00:42 AM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: karpov

STOP THE INSANITY!


56 posted on 02/19/2020 6:07:08 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: BwanaNdege

I have to admit...I have gotten to the point I fully embrace my geezerdom...I find it liberating.

I can wear what clothes I want (though, I err on the side of being too formal. I still wear a suit to wakes, funerals, and weddings)

And I say what I want. If people don’t like it because it is politically incorrect, it doesn’t bother me. (I border on using politically incorrect speech to bother people, but most of the time it is because I don’t want people dictating to me what perfectly legitimate words and phrases I should or cannot use which appears to change on a daily basis!)

Heck. Getting old and having your body deteriorate naturally is a bit of a drag, I am not going to make it worse by rejecting my geezerdom! Like those 5% senior citizen discounts, you might as well take them when you can get them!


57 posted on 02/19/2020 6:07:14 AM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: karpov
Nauseating article from The New York Times (what else is new?).
58 posted on 02/19/2020 6:08:38 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: karpov

MY personal pronouns are, “Your Royal Highness”, and “Your Majesty”...............................


59 posted on 02/19/2020 6:10:08 AM PST by Red Badger (CWII is coming. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: karpov

I think I will just call them Cousin It’s.


60 posted on 02/19/2020 6:16:07 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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