To: one_less who wrote (65508 ) 4/8/2018 8:17:18 PM From: Lane3 Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 361544 I was thinking of a softer meaning (like pressured) when I used the word "compelled." Well, if you want to think of the force of law as pressure rather than mandate, I guess you could. Personally, I couldn't do time. I prefer to have my surroundings conform to me than.Insisting someone use the word "ze" when they have other perfectly good options, however, is an infringement on their right to freedom of speech. Indeed.I was thinking more along the lines of simple freedom of expression and protections against coercive social climate, which I see as largely a product of wide spread advocacy for political correctness. That's not what it seemed to me: In Canada you are compelled by law to use the gender pronoun any individual chooses for themselves. You can be sanctioned by having your job threatened, for refusing to use assigned pronouns, or for questing the validity of unconscious bias. But we can back out the coercion if you like.the attitude expressing that it was good that we elected him because he is black or mixed race. I voted for Obama. I recognized his race but it wasn't a factor in my choice but I was glad that he was black, once he won, because I thought that signaled that we had finally put the race blot on our country behind us and could move on before the race channel got too weird. I did not recognize that, instead of signaling that we were finally OK about race, there would be a backlash from all those folks who had been suppressing their racist selves under PC pressure and were now jumping out of the woodwork. I was surprised. I did not realize during Obama's tenure how much of the hostility towards him was about race. I thought it was just another manifestation of red/blue. I don't think there's anything untoward about being conscious of his race. Or of wanting to get past the race thing.Sorry, if I've muddled the puddle but sometimes a good puddle stomping is what it takes to clear out debris. This discussion has taken a strange route. To touch back to where we started--if you ever run across an example of legal compulsion that offends the moral conscience of anyone over the trans thing, please let me know so we can discuss it. As for PC, we just have another mechanism for some people to nudge other people into operating on what they think is a higher plane of civilization. In principle, I don't see that as any more of a negative than a bunch of "church ladies" rolling their eyes and tsking over the length of Mary Jane's skirt.