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Re:Poll: 71% of Americans Say Political Correctness Has Sile... by irrational on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @02:34PM (#15604166)
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.
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Re:Poll: 71% of Americans Say Political Correctness Has Sile... by mFixman on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @02:35PM (#15604175)
There are already hate crime laws against other minorities.
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Re:Poll: 71% of Americans Say Political Correctness Has Sile... by irrational on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @02:55PM (#15604400)
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.
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