What blows my mind is that you believe it.

From the same report what White American's (Conservatives's) think/believe:

“The political climate is focused on repressing Caucasians, especially white males.”

“I believe that BLM and Antifa are terrorist groups and are as antithetical to the United States as any neo-Nazi group or white nationalist group.”

“I don’t believe climate change is happening because of humans.”

“I work in a totally PC environment and if I dare state that I feel homosexuality or sexual promiscuity is not in line with what the Bible teaches, I feel attacked and accused of being insensitive.”

“Blacks can have things that are just for them, but no one else can.”

But, those are just about beliefs. None of those have to do with the establishment of laws. 51% of democrats (a majority!) want to establish a law punishing people for not using the right words.

And 74% of Whigs support a law that requires Americans to believe obviously improbable poll results. That's why I'm voting with either the Anti-Masonic party or the Free Soil party next election.

OK. Sorry for the snark. But I find this wholly improbable.

"if you don't have data, you're just another person with an opinion"

My Wife will be first in the slammer, English is her second language and she often gets he and she mixed up..

My Chinese friends do it constantly. I think he/she is gender neutral in Mandarin.

Filipina by any chance?

I’ve started calling it the war on words.

Well let's try to understand it. This view must be rooted in the idea that such people have chosen their gender, and therefore chosen their gender pronoun. To not use it then would be like refusing to call someone by their preferred name. I don't know of widespread cases where people refuse to call others by their name after a name change, but I can imagine that if I changed my name and people refused to use my new name I would find that annoying.

That said some trans people seem to want to introduce entirely new pronouns that didn't previously exist. That feels like overreach to me. Changing such a basic part of the language by force is not something to take lightly.

Edit: to clarify, I would not support such a law myself!

I agree that I would also find it annoying. We also have social mechanics around asking people's names, and referring to them when we don't know their name.

I think one of the big complaints about the gendered pronouns is that there's no established social path for this. How do you predetermine the preferred gender pronoun of people? You should try a social experiment--- you should ask the preferred pronoun of everyone you interact with today. It'll be awkward, and it might even get you punched.

Conservatives are saying: "hey, it's ridiculous to try to create a law about this, when it's possible to break this law in a truly innocent way."

coffeefilterbrain, I'd also just like to point that we have no law against calling someone the wrong name, and it's generally regarded as a childish thing to do. So I think conservatives feel that SJWs are trying to apply a legal solution to a problem that has a social solution.

> I think one of the big complaints about the gendered pronouns...

I'd say that's definitely a complaint, but a minor one. The bigger complaint is the Orwellian implications of language policing, though the person complaining might not reach for the word "Orwellian" exactly.

I think the issue is using the law to punish people for not agreeing to do this.

> I can imagine that if I changed my name and people refused to use my new name I would find that annoying.

It would also be annoying if my preferred pronoun was "sir" or "his/her majesty". That's an absurd example, obviously, but it's not entirely up to individuals to control language in their vicinity.

Annoying should not equal illegal.

> To not use it then would be like refusing to call someone by their preferred name

So? I don't have to call you anything. I can call you Bob or Samantha or Dingus O'Frankenstein. Legally you can't do anything about it.

Wanting people to call you by a certain pronoun isn't the issue at all. Its creating a law that punishes people if they don't call you by your chosen pronoun. A law. Seriously, a law. I'm trying to think of any other laws that punish people if they don't say certain words.

There are already hate crime laws against other minorities.

Well, before today I would have said that refusing to call someone by a certain pronoun could never be prosecuted as a hate crime. If a majority of Democrats really do believe that there should be a law established that punishes people for not doing so, I'm not so sure... That seems as ridiculous as charging someone for a hate crime if they give a transgender person the side eye, but maybe it will happen.

This is really interesting because for example my mother tongue (hungarian) doesn't have grammatical genders. Like it's non existent (unlike in english, german, or any other germanic language).

You're right, it's annoying, but the solution should still be social, not legal.

They could have a protest where every person is called by their opposite pronoun just to show how it feels.

Study looks like it's not scientifically rigorous. But believe whatever you want.

Lets not cherry-pick here, 65% of Republicans want to fire people for bending a knee.

That's not the same thing as creating a law. It's the creation of a law that is the issue.

We are starting to apply the techniques of Newspeak from 1984. By eliminating certain words from the language you can't even think incorrect thoughts anymore.

This has been the case for a while. For better or worse, we no longer use "archaic" terms, instead they've been replaced with more culturally appropriate terms that appear to have identical meanings. Mentally retarded -> mentally challenged/disabled has always kind of baffled me as either can be used as an insult.

Oriental -> East Asian always baffled me too, but not being Asian myself. But I guess it's because we don't call the West the Occidental.

They banned ad banners with attractive people having nice toned bodies in London Tube, too bad you cannot outlaw being attractive in real life :).

You'd enjoy "Harrison Bergeron", a short story by Kurt Vonnegut http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html