The U.S. Government has mandated the use of preferred pronouns in every workplace in America in a clampdown on ‘discrimination’ against transgender people under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. John Murawski in UnHerd has more.
As of this week, failing to respect a queer person’s non-binary pronouns is the newest form of workplace discrimination recognised under the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act in the United States.
The new pronoun mandate for workers, employers and even customers was issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as part of the civil rights agency’s first move in a quarter-century to bring its workplace guidelines up to date with legal precedent and evolving social norms.
The 189-page document, which is technically legally non-binding but spells out the agency’s policies on investigating discrimination complaints, says that misgendering must be repeated and intentional, not a slip of the tongue, to rise to the level of workplace harassment. In its guidelines, the EEOC also decreed that it’s discriminatory for an employer to deny a transgender person access to a bathroom they feel best matches their gender identity, even if that invades the privacy of the other workers, or, in some cases, conflicts with another employee’s religious convictions.
The new standards were adopted on a 3-2 vote, along party lines, after the investigatory panel received some 37,000 public comments on the updates proposed last October.
With this dramatic decision, it’s no exaggeration to say that queer theory — the provocative academic idea that rejects the normativity of heterosexuality — is now firmly ensconced into U.S. law and American society, at least in the bluest and most urban areas with the most educated residents and top-paying jobs.
The EEOC’s decision is the consequence of decades of queer scholarship and legal manoeuvring to gain civil rights protection and social acceptance for behaviours once deemed as deviant but increasingly seen as liberated from archaic, repressive conventions. The agency said banning misgendering and bathroom restrictions for trans people “logically extends” from the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 Bostock ruling that added sexual and gender identity as a protected category under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
Worth reading in full.
Depressing stuff. Hard to understand how in a supposedly federal system like America, the central Government can stipulate that every workplace in the country – and customers as well – must conform to confused people’s gender fantasies. But there you have it.
Personally, I blame Neil Gorsuch, the supposedly conservative originalist Justice who joined with the liberals in Bostock (he actually wrote the majority opinion) in arguing that constitutional protections for sex applied equally to gender identity. His facile logic? That it is impossible for an employer to make an adverse employment decision based on “transgender status” without thereby discriminating “because of sex”, since a man who suffers adverse treatment because he “identifies” as a woman is treated differently than he would be if he were a woman who “identifies” as a woman. Er, yes, Neil. But the point is he isn’t a woman. This point of mere biological fact was lost on such a lofty legal mind, unfortunately – and now a country of 350 million is living with the idiotic and tyrannical consequences.
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This is not at all a clown world. Habeck is a self-confessed Germany-hater and if he acts to the detriment of both Germany and Germans, that’s certainly an absolutely intentional side effect of the orders he’s supposed to execute. He supposed to force the sale of heat pumps and to further the creation of wind and solar farms. He’s not supposed to reduce German CO₂ emissions effectively, that’s just the pretext which is to be used for the three aforementioned tasks.
Are ordinary Germans going to make the same mistake as those in the thirties and say they were not aware? ——Wake up ———- How is this Energiewende working out for you?
As ordinary German, you’ll sooner or later realize that the West is composed of two kinds of people:
Those who have been brainwashed to hate you since their earliest childhood.
Those who hate you absolutely hysterically because of this.
That’s nicely shown in your text with the completely spurious Nazi-reference. So-called Germany, however, is just a large scale social lab where the recipes which will be used against you tomorrow are being tested. Hence: Wake up. It’s your leaders who are doing this.
No——Not “spurious” at all. ——-In both instances propaganda is the key. Nazi propaganda back then and Green propaganda now. So how is that “energiewende” working for Germans? Not so good huh? Propaganda is a powerful tool which is why governments love it so much. ——Ruling the world or saving the world are pretty much the same thing.
Germany decided to shut down all its nuclear plants because of a massive earthquake half a world away, an earthquake that could not possibly happen in fault-line free Germany. Madness, all done under the pathetic Frau Merkel, of course. Now the green eco-loonies in Germany won’t let the government build new plants. Energy-wise, Germany is up the brown creek without any toilet paper.
Fukashima was an industrial accident not a disaster. Very few people needed to be evacuated, they chose, or were forced to leave their homes due to a fear of radiation, not an actual danger from radiation.
Similarly after Chernobyl the leading causes of death were suicide and alcoholism due to people giving up hope in the future because they believed they were going to develop cancer due to exposure to radiation. At the time groups like Greenpeace predicted tens or hundreds of thousands of excess cancer deaths in Europe 20-30 years later. It’s now been over 30 years and these deaths haven’t happened.
Even if a nuclear power plant went into meltdown in Europe or the US with a bit of common sense it wouldn’t be a major disaster.
And a cynic might observe that the “Greens” are probably happy about the development of wildlife in the Pripyat region around the old Chernobyl plant, now that there aren’t many humans there.
20,000 (approx) died so you should not say it wasn’t a disaster. What it wasn’t was a Nuclear disaster, as almost all who died were killed by the tidal wave. Nuclear is actually the safest way to produce energy.( but you know that already) It is estimated that hundreds of thousands have suffered major lung disease and death having worked with coal. But these things are all relative. Without coal we would be in the middle ages dying young of preventable diseases and after a short life of back breaking labour. ———–Basically you cannot have it all ways. A good analogy is motor cars. Sure some people will die in accidents but overall they are a huge benefit to society. There are risks in all energy production but the world NEEDS energy
The existing stock of nuclear power plants does not look safe to me. Fukushima was spun as being due to “an old design” but pretty much all of the existing stock have the same issue that they won’t behave well if there’s a disorderly shutdown with loss of cooling system. If there’s a Carrington event could we not end up with hundreds of simultaneous Fukushimas? At this point nuclear advocates will often change the subject and talk about thorium, or small modular reactors that fail safe, and that’s fine but that’s not the existing stock of reactors.
Existing reactors are safe. Fukushima failed because its back up generators got flooded by the massive earthquake and tsunami which stopped coolant being circulated. It’s true that new nuclear plants will always be even safer than old but at this time the green eco lunatics would have you believe they’re all a menace.
As for a Carrington Event incident damaging nuclear power stations, highly unlikely, solar flares are not going to burn through metres of concrete.
Wouldn’t it be, though, that a Carrington event would essentially kill all digital means of command and control? I doubt nuclear power stations have a manual operating system available.
The complete destruction of the digital world would kill more people than hundreds of Fukushimas, seeing as how there were exactly 0 deaths from acute radiation exposure.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/09/27/major-victory-for-9-11-family-uk-attorney-general-withdraws-decision-on-application-for-new-inquest/
Not a good week for Attorney General Prentis.
Well, they didn’t do a good job of hiding it. Here’s an easily accessible site that tells it’s own story: https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electricity-data/chart/conventional_power_generation/21.08.2023/28.08.2023/today/ Where else in Europe is so much brown coal (lignite) being used?
And I’m not advertising this group as such: https://nachhaltigkeit.deutschebahn.com/en/green-transformation but if they are using up their slice of “green trading”, someone else must be losing to cross balance it there!
Hide, Omit, Deceive, Misinform, Lie, Distort, Pretend, Deny, Mislead, Exclude, Neglect, Overlook. —————But it is all for the “Greater Good” ofcourse. The end justifies the means, so a pack of lies according to Green Ideology is not just a good thing, it is a necessary requirement.
Robert Habeck has stated publicly that he hates Germany.
So keeping the nukes open – and saving more than four times as much emissions as his own Green lunacy – as well as maintaining some energy independence – is obviously the way to go.
But not for Robert Habeck.
Why isn´t he fired?