NYC has declared that under its Human Rights Law, businesses must use a transgendered persons’ preferred pronoun when referring to him/her/ze/they/it/hir or they will be fined.
I’m not surprised that liberals would want to take away free speech to force people to say things they do not want to say and know are not true under the pain of financial penalty. Liberals are not pro-freedom, but pro-liberal values. They are only for the freedoms they want to champion, and if that requires reducing the overall amount of freedom in this country, they fully support that.
Thinking to Believe 
May 26, 2016 at 12:23 am
I guess it might be better if we were to just ask ‘so how do you identify today ‘? Smh
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May 26, 2016 at 11:32 am
You have got to start disengaging from this culture war toxicity, Jason. It’s media-puppetry and exaggerated alarmism damaging the long-game of patience and love. Reread the article you just wrote and parse-out which things are fact and which are embellishments by Watson.
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June 19, 2016 at 1:03 pm
“Liberals are not pro-freedom, but pro-liberal values. They are only for the freedoms they want to champion, ”
Those of us who consider ourselves “true” liberals call the people you are describing “the regressive left” or “social justice warriors”.
Liberalism has indeed, for many, lost its way. Their minds clouded with self flagellating white male guilt, victimology, and special snowflake sense of entitlement all too many self identifying liberals have indeed lost sight of the necessity to consistently apply our precious liberal values broadly and consistently.
Take heart my friend, there is pushback afoot. Bloomberg and Obama have called out this illiberal trend in recent commencement speeches. Youtube is filled with rationalists who blast these SJWs every time they post their regressive nonsense. And the Reason Rally was a flop because they veered toward the regressive left in their issue statements and policies so most atheists voted with their feet.
It has been some 10 years since the 4 horsemen rode onto the national scene. Since then some notables have joined them and there is a growing movement of liberals who are more than fed up with just the absurdities you point out. So try not to paint we liberals with such a broad brush, ok?
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