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Kinda. It’s at least true where pronoun affirmation is concerned, as corporations and educational institutions move to let everyone know their chosen signifiers are respected. For an example, look no further than Georgetown University. As indicated by a Thursday email obtained by The Washington Free Beacon, the college’s top-rated law school is raising the bar where transgender support is concerned. Per the Beacon, the Student Bar Association asked students to make clear their preferred pronouns on LinkedIn, Zoom, and in their individual email signatures. For those disinterested, the Asso...

A few days after my daughter started kindergarten, I learned about Unity Day. It sounded innocent enough. It turned out it was much more than students wearing orange on the same day as if they were part of the Bolshevik Revolution.

(AP Photo/Steven Senne) Journalists try to mock the Seuss outrage as they are unable to stop condemning conservatives on the issue. While the Dr. Seuss controversy is beginning to wear down one aspect of this needs to be exposed. I covered earlier how there are many members in the press who are rather casual about the concept of silencing an author and removing his books. Now in a fashion of covering for this departure from the normal adherence of encouraging free expression, journalists are energetically going after those who are opposed to removing the books.  Throughout the media landscap...

'Pretend You're a Slave' Assignment Shows That Some Teachers Still Don't Get History SheKnows 3/4/2021 © Photo by Lum3n from Pexels We are going to say this one more time for the people in the back (of progress): School assignments asking students to pretend to be slaves or slave owners are not OK. This is offensive. Got it? The reason we have to go over this yet again is that, just this week, an assignment asked eighth-graders at Purvis Middle School in Mississippi to “pretend like you are a slave working on a Mississippi plantation” and “write a letter to your family back in Afric...

Georgetown Law School’s Student Bar Association asked students to designate their preferred pronouns on Zoom, LinkedIn, and in their email signatures Thursday morning.