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> Are there contemporary instances of conservative driven cancellations? Would teachers being fired merely for being gay count? https://www.independent.co.uk/

> Are there contemporary instances of conservative driven cancellations? Would teachers being fired merely for being gay count? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gay-teacher-catholic-school-fired-b1914950.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gay-teache... https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2021/10/27/gay-new-york-teacher-fired-catholic-school-over-marriage/8567547002/ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2021/10/27/gay-... https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/opinion-teacher-i-was-fired-for-being-gay-now-it-cant-happen-to-anyone-else/2020/06 https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/opinion-teacher-i-was... (three different ones there, there's more in the googles.) > Teachers can say whatever they like Except to say that they're gay, it seems.

bendbro 5y ago
Fired for being gay at public school: absolutely cancellation, and wrong. Fired for discussing sex and gender with students: debatable. Fired for being gay at a Catholic school: much like I'm fine with Hasidic Jews, Mormons, or Muslims doing "backward" things to maintain their enclaves, so too am I fine with Catholics doing it. Do I want all of society to be like this: please god no. Whether all of this changes my opinion: no, but I will keep my mind more open. I think more examples, especially ones in public schools could change my mind. I can also hear an argument against enclaves of the sort I spoke of above having less freedom. I don't have a great one in support of it to begin with. The topic is very messy.