@FreeBritnee
Why is this THE thing that’s causing so much mania? If it was climate change I’d completely understand, but fucking pronouns again. I honestly don’t understand.
Because it's the best and easiest way to force others to make a statement of faith or out themselves as a disbeliever.
It's win/win. They cannot lose. One the one hand you get more people to go along with your belief, and it doesn't matter if people are merely doing it because they are compelled to or because they are clueless (every single statement of faith strengthens your movement), on the other hand you get to identify more people to target with harassment campaigns.
And for such minimal effort, too. This is exactly like the mandatory statements of belief we all had to do in the totalitarian state I grew up in. It doesn't matter that we didn't actually believe what we professed to believe. Those statements helped to prop up the regime. As long as we went along with it, as long as we were too scared to dissent, the regime was safe to continue.
Theodore Dalrymple said this about the effect that mandatory professions of faith, however insincere, have on people:
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of Communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of Communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
This is an accurate explanation of what went on, and it applies here, too.
And I have educated myself about queer theory, the doctrine of gender identity and and the lives of transgender people, their struggles, their needs and their beliefs about themselves.
I have concluded that implementing the doctrine of gender identity is not necessary to help transgender people live safe and happy lives. Because the doctrine of gender identity is evil in my view and implementing it will harm not just society and female people in particular, but also children and transgender people themselves.
I believe that demanding that I use preferred pronouns or state my own is asking me to co-operate with evil and for me to become, in a small way, evil myself by endorsing the ideology and contributing to the social pressure on non-believers to participate in the lie.
So I don't. But that outs me immediately. The only way forward that protects people from being made unwilling participants in an ideology that should have no place in public institutions in a democracy, and to protect dis-believers is for the university to refuse these demands.