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My Newswithviews Column, July 20 (‘Millenials: ‘Misgendering’ Is a Crime’)

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He says he’s a frog. Does that mean we have to “affirm” his delusion–or else?

The Biden Administration is fighting a court case to keep its “right” to lean on Internet providers and get them to censor anyone who’s not aboard their bandwagon. They actually think that’s a good thing. Well, good for them, at least.

Millenials: ‘Misgendering’ Is a Crime

In my own lifetime our country has never been closer to losing its freedom–losing its very form, as Democrats and the rest of Far Left Crazy warp and twist it out of shape.

May God utterly confound their every intention.

And we need to work harder for that!

No, You Don’t Have to Say It!

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“You wait till my Big Brother’s here–he’ll make you say it!”

Has the Supreme Court socked it to the Far Left this week, or what? They bombed affirmative action and race-based college admissions; then they voided SloJo’s “student loan forgiveness” package that he, because he is not Congress, had absolutely no authority to make–

And yesterday they smacked down the compelled speech crowd, ruling that a web designer did not have to, and cannot be forced to, design websites for same-sex fake weddings (https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-gay-rights-website-designer-aa529361bc939c837ec2ece216b296d5). You probably already knew this, but I would be remiss if I didn’t mention it.

Compelled speech is a Democrat heart-throb. If they can force you to say things that violate your religion, or that you simply believe to be untrue–well, there’s no limit, then, to what they may demand of you.

This issue has been kicking around for some years, with the Supreme Court looking for a way to dodge it. But it has finally been settled: The state cannot, as a condition of being allowed to continue to make a living, compel anyone to speak or write in violation of his conscience. 

Leftids think that makes America a bad country.

Well, they’re howling at the moon now, and chewing the rug. Now you know how we felt for all those years, as the Court gave you everything you asked for, that you couldn’t get with an election or a vote in Congress. Thought you’d be stickin’ it to the rest of us forever, didn’t you?

Yesterday the Court rescued free speech from Democrats who would abolish it.

‘When They Make You Say It’ (2018)

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As much fun as it is for libs and progs to suppress speech, and forbid you to say certain things, it’s even more of a blast for them if they can coerce you into saying things you don’t believe in and know to be untrue. That’s how they come after your self-respect.

When They Make You Say It

“Compelled speech,” as we call it, is growing by leaps and bounds. We find it everywhere. How could we have been so cowardly as to allow this? And why do we put up with it?

“Land of the free”… hot dog!

‘More College Crapola: Math Profs Must Provide “Diversity Statements”‘ (2019)

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See that? Four years ago, and the looniversities were already dabbling in compelled speech. “We’ll not only tell you what you can’t say. We’ll tell you what you must say.”

And all King George wanted was a stamp tax.

More College Crapola: Math Profs Must Provide ‘Diversity Statements’

Allowing this wicked stupidity, lightly tossing away our hard-won liberties, we are unworthy of the generation that bled and sacrificed to found this country. Shame, shame, shame on us.

If You Defund The Universities, They’ll Behave

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You say exactly what we want you to say–you’re hired!

The English Dept. at the University of Houston Downtown has removed an “anti-racism statement” that it had required all faculty and staff to sign onto, expressing their heartfelt (LOL) support for Far Left Crazy (https://campusreform.org/article?id=21579).

Why did they back down?

Well, Gov. Greg Abbot’s office got involved and it was suggested that there might not be any more state aid for neo-Stalinist stupid factories. And that, as they say, was that.

Man, oh, man! If you’re looking to invest in stocks, run out and buy Compelled Speech–because it’s taking off like a rocket, all over the country. “We’ve told you what you can’t say. Now we’ll tell you what you must say!” And they start with having their hirees confess that they are “all [Yes–A-L-L] complicit in systems of oppression” blah-blah-blah. You had to sign it or you couldn’t have a job.

Why have we let our “educators” treat us with such contempt? But the solution to this problem is staring us right in the face: Take away the money. Here, just the threat of cutting off state aid got the commies to climb down.

I suspect we can get by very nicely with only 10% of the “higher education” that we have now. The remaining 90% can be thrown out with the tuna that went bad.

We Has ‘A’ Noo Socile Jutstus TakTik!!!

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Sumb-tymes my cloathes thay dought “feeel rihght” and Then i disscuver I has axerdently “put themb” On Back-words!!!!!!

So yeasterday i whent to Me Studdies class whith my Pants “on” back-wurds–and i amb teling yiu It “cann” hapen “to” Ennyboddy!-!–and the Prefester and the oather stoodints “thay” stooded Up and Cheeeared!!!!! Thay thawted I done It “on” porpose! to Pro-tesst Trans Fobbier and Racism. The Prefester she sayed “This” “it is reel Socile Jutstus,, it Is “a” fanntastical Way Of saying Our hole no-good Stinkin Sosyetty IT IS LYKE TOETULLY BACKWURDS!!!””!!” And aslo she sayed Evvry Boddy thay shood doo it!!!

So awl the stoodints (exept me, i awlreddy done It) thay toock Off thare Cloathes and putt themb On Back-wirds!!!!! Thare was one Hater Biggit he woodnt do It,, he sayed It “was” Stopid, so sicks (%6) of us we beet himb Up!!! “That is watt Cumpelled Speach it is awl abuot!!”! sayed The Prefester!. She kikked himb too!!

Nhow we Are goingto go Owt and martch aru,ownd The Fowntin by The deen’s howse to Protesst for moar Transgenders in the Caffateeriah!!! I bet he Lissins to us nhow!!!!!!

How Do I Prove My ‘Commitment to Diversity’?

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Boy howdy! I want to be a janitor at East Washington University–but there’s a catch. They want me to submit a “Diversity Statement” and prove my commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Well, here’s my proof.

*I have Jane Fonda pinups all over my apartment.

*Somewhere I’ve got a bunch of Pete Seeger record albums.

*I have a Master’s degree in Nothing Studies.

*I was in a Black Lives Matter demonstration and threw a brick through a store window.

*My dog is named Che.

*I can wear a dress, if that’s what it takes to show my commitment to Transgender Rights.

*I once sent money to Planned Parenthood.

Well, East Washington? Do you want somebody whose mind is right sweeping the floors of your classrooms, or some MAGA White Supremacist Biggit? The choice is yours–and I am Pro-Choice, big-time!

[Disclaimer: I don’t know who wrote this, but he’s obviously on the right track.]

No ‘Commitment to Diversity’? No Job!

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What we’ll be when they get through with us

At Ohio State Looniversity, if you seek a job in computer engineering, architecture, or nuclear (!) engineering, you won’t be hired unless you submit a “diversity statement” that the looniversity finds acceptable (https://www.breitbart.com/education/2023/03/21/ohio-state-university-requires-diversity-statement-engineering-job-applicants/).

Oh, but that ain’t nothin’! At East Washington U., wherever that is, you’ve got to submit a Diversity Statement (yes, let’s use capital letters!) if you’re applying for one of the school’s “custodial positions.” You can’t even be a freakin’ janitor unless your politics is right!

In addition to your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement, they also want you to “please provide specific examples” of your commitment to Far Left shibboleths. I wonder if they check to make sure you’re not lying. Stalin would have.

So… The electrical system shorts out and the whole place burns down… the computer system goes mad and makes all the money disappear… and there’s a slight cock-up on the nuclear engineering front and a mushroom cloud over Ohio… Yeahbut, yeahbut! We’re all right! We’ve got the Diversity Statements!

How is this even remotely permissible under the First Amendment? How is this not “compelled speech”? Where are the lawsuits, people? You need to bring this to a crashing halt!

Will we let these twerps devour our liberties? Will our own stupid colleges and looniversities do to us what the Wehrmacht and the Imperial Japanese Navy couldn’ do?

We really ought to be ashamed of tolerating this.

They Want Your Kids to Eat Bugs

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Fill in the blank and win a tin foil hat! I keep on sending my kids to public schools because________.

And don’t ever think your school is a safe place for your kids because you live in a Red state–Utah, for instance. The same teachers’ unions, the same teachers’ colleges, the same Far Left wackos own public education in all 50 states.

In a Utah middle school this week, the, um, “teacher” got her kids to eat bugs (https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/utah_kids_told_to_eat_bugs_to_save_the_earth_and_get_class_credit.html). Why? ‘Cause it’ll Save The Planet! And teacher will give you extra credit! And if you won’t do it… well, go ahead, make their day.

After chowing down on creepy-crawlies, Teacher had the kids write essays about why it’s so good to eat bugs. She told them what to write. All children were required to endorse bug-eating–no other opinion allowed.

Well, you’ve got to admit they’re learning something. “Welcome to your course in How To Knuckle Under To A Dictator!”

Is this more than just disgusting? Is it evil and perverse?

That’s public education!

‘Watch Canada, Because We’re Next’ (2018)

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Premier Justin Trudeau, believe it or not–party time

Years before it caught on in America, Canada brought “gender coaches” into elementary school classrooms to sell kids on the joys of aberrant sex. It seems Canada’s always slightly ahead of us when it comes to culture rot.

Watch Canada, Because We’re Next

A few years ago, Canada came up with two new schemes that must’ve had America’s Democrats drooling with envy. * Make support for abortion a condition for getting a summer job. *Give labor unions absolute power over who works and who doesn’t. These capers have worked out so well in Cuba! And North Korea! Really, what’s the point of even having a government if it can’t force people to violate their conscience?