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This is a public university in a town of 20k, which is 70% Republican, whose main employers are a local hospital, a prison, a railroad, a lumberyard, and this s
by joshcryer 4y ago
This is a public university in a town of 20k, which is 70% Republican, whose main employers are a local hospital, a prison, a railroad, a lumberyard, and this school. This guy wins this case 99% of the time which is why they settled. And it's all because the school just wanted him to be respectful to a student.
- version_five 4y agoNo, they wanted him to call the student something he disagreed with. He offered to call them by name and not refer to their sex as I understood it. They wanted him to explicitly participate in the "pronouns" thing, which he disagreed with. There can and should be a difference between being respectful and going along with someone else's "game" even if that's important to them. It's more like asking him to make a positive religious statement, imo, when the respectful thing could just be to say everyone is entitled to their own beliefs.
- joshcryer 4y agoYeah, but you can see how this would upset a student, in a philosophy class, being taught the Socratic method, with a professor who prefers to refer to their students by Mr. And Ms. as a "formal manner of addressing students helps them view the academic enterprise as a serious, weighty endeavor." ... except for that trans person who I will refer to by their last name only.