CollegeFix: UCLA Law Prof. Eugene Volokh is usually a pretty restrained guy, but the First Amendment expert goes absolutely nuts when talking about a brazen and flagrantly unconstitutional attack on free speech by New York City’s social engineers.
Almost certainly unbeknownst to the average New Yorker – a demographic not known for overweening politeness (I know, I married one) – the New York City Commission on Human Rights is demanding that employers, landlords, professionals and “all businesses” (in Volokh’s reading) ask people their preferred gender pronoun from their first interaction. more
ze, xe, zir, hir, xyr
Is this DeBlasio’s cunning plan to get New Yorkers to speak Chinese?
What is the fine for not calling New York City by its proper name: New York Liberal Cesspool?
If they’re going to fine people for not using the correct, ‘negnoun’ (it sure ain’t a ‘pro-noun’), then they will have to require people wearing badges or something that identifies themselves. That worked out real well, back in Germany. Of if I go to NYC, will I have to ask every person I see ‘what the feck do you want to be called?” I guess one could be polite and ask something like ‘what are you today?’ Better that I just stay away, rather than risk the chance of using the wrong word.