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Tweet by San Antonio Express-New, saying: "Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns."
lmao based headline
Especially from a Texan newspaper
the express-news, along with the newspapers in austin, corpus christi, dallas, el paso, fort worth, houston, and longview, all endorsed beto in 2018.
As always, it's an urban vs rural divide, not a State divide.
Which is another reason everyone in charge is scared of remote work. The divide is what keeps this ridiculous political shitstorm going. I say this as a techie Texan with a permanent WFH job who used the pandemic as an excuse to move out of the city. The small town I live near now has slowly transformed from a typical R-voting small Texas town to a purpleish LGBT friendlyish badass mixed community. We still voted for that stupid pee-baby Abbott, but change is definitely in the air..
Ah, the refreshing feeling of seeing a headline from my local paper on a website and not being ashamed of what it says.
His pronouns are nazi/fascist
Oh wait sorry. Nazi's pronouns are nazi/fascist. Sorry for misgendering!
His pronouns are actually dumbfuck/coward
Rafael also has preferred pronouns. If we aren't allowed to use people's preferred pronouns, do we start referring to Rafael as Rafael instead of he/him?
I can't wait for some dipshit to reply to this thinking I actually believe this bill prevents you from using pronouns
If nobody can use preferred pronounce, just start calling all CIS males "she/her." They would prefer to be "he/him" so obviously we can't call them that.
"Rafael" is also a preferred name. So we better just start referring to the piece of shit descriptively.
For those wondering:
“Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, legally named Rafael Edward Cruz, has introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate titled the Safeguarding Honest Speech Act. The legislation proposes prohibiting federal funds from enforcing policies requiring federal employees to use preferred pronouns or names other than an individual’s legal name”
So he just wants to stop the federal government from enforcing pronouns or aliases in government settings…?
When does the government actually FORCE or ENFORCE pronoun usage though, using government money?
Am I taking crazy pills or is he just making shit up?
*Just wanted to say I appreciate all the people replying, the implications of his bill may be more severe than I initially read into it.
Currently the federal government has to respect an employees preferred name and pronouns by law. This would be a violation of individuals rights but when did they ever care about rights.
It would stop HR from protecting public employees from being harassed by coworkers or leadership who repeatedly, intentionally and maliciously misgender or deadname trans people. Or clientele for that matter. It would make enforcing policies to treat trans employees and customers with the most basic of respect in using their preferred names and pronouns. If your boss wants to call you by your dead name at every chance, they can. If the DMV clerk wants to call every trans person that comes to their counter by the wrong gender, they can. Anyone that enforces those policies, or scolds or refuses rewards or advancements to those individuals would be in violation of this law.
Legally, if I tell the government to call me by X name and use Y pronouns, they must respect it.
Rapheal "loves-the-feeling-of-freshly-pissed-pants" Cruz, or as he is most commonly known, Piss Pants Cruz, doesnt like mandating respect for an individuals preferred form of address.
The government does issue passports in people's preferred gender. They got rid of the requirement to have any kind of medical documentation a few years ago. Maybe he's trying to stop that, along with being a total fuckin douche in general.
This is just performative nonsense. It has no chance of passing. But Rafael Cruz just has to let the most fucked up segment of the Republican base know that he on their side!
Wait, Ted isn't even one of his names? Of all the names in the world he choose to go with Ted? No disrespect against anyone named Ted but there are cooler names out there...
He needed something not so ethnic sounding. Ted is pretty fucking white.
He wanted to hold a TED talk so badly but was too incompetent, so he decided on holding Ted talks instead
Probably because no one would take Eddie Cruz or Raph Cruz seriously.
In Texas? Eddie Cruz sounds like a guy who drives an El Camino and has a cousin named Cooter. He'd have been the presidential nominee in '16.
"Did you hear about Eddie and Cooter? They running for the big house! Get in the pickup, we're gonna go vote!"
Rafael is such a cool name. Wtf
It's a little too... European for a Texan regressive.
too much of a ninja turtle?
He's far too thin skinned and snivelling for anyone to confuse him for a hero with a shell.
There are too many letters in "Rafael" for the average Texan to read. Ted is much easier for them
How does anyone (who doesn't already realize what's up) not realize the absolute absurdity of what's going on. Like wtf. Pronouns causing problems? Better fucking LEGISLATE it. Like what? The fuck.
Conservative media has been boiling the frog on culture wars since Nixon, and by design.
No one who listens to right wing drivel realizes the absurdity because their version of politics is like football to them: a game to win with the only real consequence being their ability to shove it in people's faces, or shoved in back in theirs.
Conservative media is designed to be that so it is trivially easy to hide actual unfavorable news from their viewers, like $14 billion disappearing over night into Isreal or their god king standing trial on actual, provable charges.
We can still call him a douche though right? . That's my preferred name for this sac of shit.
Well a lot of misinformed people think his existence is a good thing but in reality he's harmful to (amongst other things) the vaginal health of women so yeah, calling him a douche is fitting.
ted cruz basically gets paid by the taxpayers to do a podcast
Ted Cruz is a turd, but uhh this is false. The original outlet has even changed the headline since then.
Kind of true. This is what the bill says:
"No Federal funds may be used for the purpose of implementing, administering, or enforcing any rule…requiring an employee or contractor of any Federal agency or Department to use—(1) another person's preferred pronouns if they are incompatible with such person's sex; or (2) a name other than a person's legal name when referring to such person."
I interpret this to be an attempt to remove any training materials, HR efforts, or resolution conflict mediators from mentioning anything about gender pronouns. The creation of any training documents or resolving any interpersonal conflict where a person calls someone by a name other than their preferred name would be strictly off limits since that time would be paid for by the government. It doesn't matter if there's a concrete rule requiring others to respect preferred pronouns or not. If someone is upset about another person disrespecting preferred pronouns, this bill is broadly worded enough that nothing can be done about it. It creates a loophole for a bad actor to harrass someone with impunity.
This "protects" a harrasser's right to free speech in the same way it protects Nazis from gathering to protest and promote racism. Protecting free speech sounds good on paper until you delve deeper into the implications. Namely, removing limitations on hate speech in order to further suppress others. This bill is not hypocritical, as at first thought, but it is still just what you'd expect from the GOP.
Just remember, as stupid as stunts like this are, there are stupider people who eat it up.
Bruh
The only Raphael I care about is a turtle
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