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Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day (abcnews.go.com)

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[–] MunkysUnkEnz0 50 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

For the life of me, I can't understand why they care about someone's sexual orientation or their pronoun.

I ran the numbers on sex changes and it's like .001 of the population. It's a non-issue.

The real issues are homelessness, inequality, Internet privacy, poisons in our food and workers' rights..

Not fucking pronouns.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They don't care. The tactic is to have a minority that you can blame for all the bad things.

100 years ago it was the jews secretly running the world, today it's the evil trans people and immigrants conspiring to destroy The West™.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

100 years ago they were also persecuting trans people. Here's a photo of them burning books in 1933, some of which were from the Institute of Sexual Science after it was raided by the Nazis. And it only got worse from there. Here's a whole article about it.

[–] Sterile_Technique 26 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

For the life of me, I can’t understand why they care about someone’s sexual orientation or their pronoun.

They don't. It's classic divide and conquer tactics to package up the general population into nice bite-sized chunks that they can destroy individually with minimal resistance from the others. Exact same shit is how the Nazis rose to power.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And once again the population isn't ready....

[–] Sterile_Technique 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"wE wOulD nEveR LEt tHAt haPpen hEre!" /headsand

- dipshits in the US who think we're somehow better than the average German citizen in the 1930s

[–] CriticalThought 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Despite people perhaps still believing this, I believe it was largely disproven in the 1960s by the Milgram experiment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

Got to distract from the real issues somehow. Gotta keep that wealth extraction and concentrating system of exploitation alive. Can't have the slave rising up to overthrow their masters again...