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They complain about political correctness, and they go and do shit like this.
Political correctness: I can't say what I want!
Conservatives Later: it's now illegal for you to say what you want
As is fascist tradition.
There is no "good conservative" alive today.
When the flip flopper in chief, Mitt Romney, is your only hope, or anyone named Cheney, we've got massive problems.
Not that I disagree with you.
But even as a staunch Euro leftist, I think it is okay that there are people I strongly disagree with, even strongly dislike because I think the fight for values that are against my personal morality.
Both Romney and Cheney are such people.
I don't think they should have political power over other people.
But they share at least a certain common ground with me that the fascists don't.
And for how little I actually like those people, I still value this very difference.
Maybe some of them need to be less alive
This is a blatant first amendment violation. Another pro-gamer move from the free speech party.
Devils advocate here, in some places, deliberately using the wrong pronouns with the intention to harm someone would be hate speech.
So flip it around, using the preferred pronouns is considered an attack on the child and/or their shitty parents.
Hate speech is protected by the First Amendment, so flip it around, inclusive speech is also protected by the First Amendment. I'm sure teachers can lose their jobs for hate speech but people cannot be criminally charged for hate speech alone. Prosecuting teachers as sex offenders for using pronouns is a clear and deliberate violation of their Constitutional rights.
preferred pronouns is considered an attack on the child
If the child doesn't want to be called that it's not their preferred pronoun.
I really can't comprehend the level of hate that these motherfuckers must possess to write or support such a bill. I mean, let's say you're an incredible asshole who doesn't think that trans people exist, like you think that you know who they are much better than they actually know themselves. Even with that as a baseline, isn't it still just the polite thing to treat them with basic respect?
If I found out that someone I just met preferred to use their middle name instead of their first name, I would 100% use that person's middle name when addressing them. It's just common courtesy. The same thing goes with a person who's transitioning - I will use their preferred name, because I'm not a completely deplorable piece of shit.
But this guy is way worse than someone who intentionally antagonizes people by using their disliked name when addressing them. This guy wants to actively punish anybody who has the rock bottom bare minimum of civility by destroying their lives and livelihoods.
I just can't grasp that level of hatred. How is it that this piece of shit shares enough genes with everybody else that he's recognized as human?
Ah yes, further diluting the term sex offender down to the point the label is meaningless.
Makes perfect sense to combine teachers who accept pronouns, with people caught publicly urinating on the same list with violent rapists and convicted pedophiles.. after all, it's all the same.
My honest reaction to news coming from USA these days:
Ditto. But I'm in the USA myself.
It's difficult to differentiate between real news and The Onion now days. It's like... Comical but also terrifying.
HAIRCUTS! HAIRCUTS OF THE WRONG GENDER ARE PART OF THIS BILL!!
Dafuq kinda haircut is gendered?
Any haircut underneath which stands someone Republicans want to oppress.
Just ask Darryl George.
kim jong-un approves this law
As a practical result this is more of an attack on education than an attack on LGBT, who would want to be a teacher under such tyrannical rules?
They're getting two birds with one stone.
study to be a teacher in Missouri
teach full time for $30,000/year or something
become a sex offender, obviously can't teach anymore
can't actually find a job at all
forced to live in a designated trailer park for pedophiles
become a lifelong welfare recipient
nice one, conservatives
How is anyone supposed to know anyone else’s pronouns without asking them?
Are the teachers supposed to check the genitals of their students at the beginning of the year?
I feel like that’s what the right wants. They’re weirdly interested in that
Naked lessons.. naked schools.. that way the sneaky trans kids also cannot change during the year.
But if everyone is naked, the poor boys will be distracted. I mean, they already veer off course when shoulders are out. I guess the only appropriate solution is to not have the girls at (naked) school. /s
Oh excellent point. All naked boys only and girls only schools. That will definitely resolve the issue and has no chance to backfire.
This is how it starts, people.
Fascism?
Dumbass bills are introduced all the time. The news likes to bring them up but never talks about most of them being shot down though.
Don't like your teacher? Just flip your pronouns real quick and get them on the sex offender list. Problem solved.
Fuck this bullshit
I vote we make all politicians sex offenders to see how they like it.
Most of them already are... but I get your point.
I hate that these are usually rage bait titles, but this is legitimately terrifying
Okay. Everyone is a they/them. No binary gender for anyone. Hedge your bets and play it right down the middle.
Problem solved
Missouri deliberately impoverishing themselves is par for the conservative course.
Two years ago I would have said no worries, there's no way a bill like this can pass. Now? Let's just say I don't take anything for granted.
Just give politicians prison time for wasteful laws like this. It's objectively a waste of taxpayer's dollars used to fuel hate crimes. Fuck them, they should get 100x the risk and accountability then the poor paycheck to paycheck teachers they keep overly focusing on.
For anyone curious and who wants the sauce, here is the link to the actual proposed changes. It is pretty transparent and accessible.
https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills241/hlrbillspdf/5874H.01I.pdf