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I think it has already pretty much been established that most Trump supporters would be totally okay with that.

Very poor taste, man.

This quote is from the Mickey Joseph thread. We may not know what actually happened with Mickey Joseph's wife and whether or not she actually experienced a racist incident, but we certainly do know that this poster is 100% unqualified to make any comment regarding the racial biases that other people may have experienced.

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Come on now, even when arguments get pissy, knapplc is still way more respected on this board than you are. By far.

Everyone has biases. Everyone. Sometimes we are aware of them, sometimes we are not. Sometimes our biases manifest in ways that we might not expect. Those of us who are white, in our private conversations, do we talk about racial issues with our white friends and family in exactly the same way as we do with our black friends? How many of us have actually talked about racial issues with a black person? As white people, aren't we often a little more aware of our behavior when we are around people of color? I would guess that most white people, racist or not, are at least a little sensitive to how they are perceived when it comes to racial issues. Some of us try to be very aware and take efforts to do the right thing, knowing that it is still possible to make a mistake because we don't know what it is like to walk in another's shoes. Some of us remain willfully ignorant and only respond when someone dares to call us out on our biases or our behavior (even when it is unintentional).

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Repubs in congress, when asked to comment:

Congrats on the beautiful baby and everything, but...did he just call his wife a beast?

Sigh...this list. I mean, they are all better than any of the Trumpists by a wide mile, but come on, Dems. Clinton and AOC are not serious candidates. Clinton's time is over and she needs to go away. I personally really like AOC, but she is polarizing and not ready. I like Pete too, but again not quite ready. Sanders is older than Biden, and Warren is good but also old, and has never been able to poll above Biden or Sanders. Harris was in the best position to be groomed for the big job but she has been a nobody since becoming VP and the bloom is off the rose. The Dems have had years to create stars, but they have nobody. Yet, there dozens of crackpot Repubs who are barely literate and mentally deranged but have become political rock stars. What the f*&k?

The inability of the Democrats to position someone, anyone, to be a qualified and attractive candidate to stem off the GOP cult has been absolutely negligent and will be devastating to this country.

I did this in 2020 in Ohio, there were so many crazies running for office (which is still the case) that my wife and I requested Republican ballots for the primaries to vote for the least insane. For the following two years, we received GOP propaganda in the mail every week, and when we Google our names, we show up as registered Republicans. It felt absolutely disgusting. We switched back to Dem for this year's primary because it was too gross.

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Those are great points, and no, the actual allegations have not been revealed. We only have the spin from the parents of one of the accused students. Supporting your thought, the most recent article I could find indicates that this case may indeed be a matter of gender-based harassment, but not necessarily sexual in nature:

A magical frog trains a whiny kid how to use his powers, but when the kid tries to help his friends, his dad kicks his a$$ and cuts off his hand.

I assume that you identify as a man and use he/him pronouns. Is that accurate? What would you say if I started referring to you as "she" or "her," or if I told everyone that you were not really a man. You have chosen to be called "nic" on this board, but what if I decide to start calling you Nikki or Nicole or Nikkita. What if we end up using the same restroom and laugh at you and tell you that the ladies room is down the hall. What if you ask me politely to stop, but this only intensifies my actions. I refuse to acknowledge that you are a man and am now mocking you for being feminine. My friends join me, also referring to you as "she" and "Nicole." This goes on for months. Would you consider this intentional misgendering to be harassment? Why or why not?

You may be right (and it is likely that you are right), but what actual facts are you basing these thoughts on? If it is indeed schoolyard bullying, and if said bullying was based on sex or gender, that's when it potentially falls under the definition of sexual harassment. Maybe they already tried calling the parents and dealing with it another way. Obviously the parents don't think that junior did anything wrong (but notice that the articles and attorney statements do not actually deny the conduct). I absolutely agree that no national news is needed. But it was the parents of the accused perpetrator who took it to the media. If I am accused of something, whether I did it or not, the last thing I would want is to broadcast the accusation and my alleged misbehavior to the entire world. Thanks mom!

Yes, going from "picking on" to "sexual harassment" is indeed a big escalation. In order to justify those charges, especially as a Title IX violation instead of your garden variety teasing/bullying, the totality of the alleged conduct better be pretty darn severe. If not, then the school messed up by filing these charges. I tried to look up the "lots of articles" you mentioned for more facts, or at least the actual allegations, but the facts of the case aren't available, only outrage from parents and attorneys who apparently don't understand Title IX. Other than the local news outlets in Wisconsin, the only national places where this is being picked up appears to be Fox News, the Daily Mail, and the New York Post. A schoolyard harassment case is certainly not national news, yet this particular case is being promoted by the right wing outlets to further their war against the tyranny of pronouns. The parents and attorneys are also recklessly putting their kids' names out there, now this is on the world wide web forever and ever, without actually completing the investigation. I guess stoking ignorant outrage for the culture war is more important than actually protecting your kids.

I wonder what the actual allegations are, this news story is not written well at all, with very few facts presented. Title IX covers all forms of sex discrimination or sexual harassment, it doesn't have to be in the same ballpark as sexual assault. However, sexual harassment does have to be severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive in order to meet the Title IX definition. While I can see intentional misuse of pronouns and mockery of someone's chosen pronouns potentially rising to the definition of harassment (creating a hostile environment), it is unlikely. However, Title IX regulations require a school to automatically dismiss allegations that do not rise to a Title IX violation, so either this school seriously overstepped (as the law firm is alleging), or the allegations are more serious than this article says. The school can charge someone with other student conduct violations outside of the Title IX definitions, but this article specifically says that it was a Title IX charge. If the school had a competent attorney, they would not have proceeded with such charges without the allegations being severe and pervasive. There was a court case last year (I think someone posted it on HB not too long ago) in which a college professor intentionally misgendered and mocked a student in class, was disciplined, but the school's actions were overturned in court based on freedom of speech and the professor won a settlement. That case was in a different district than this new case would be, but I think most school would be thinking about that kind of case when moving forward with charged based on pronouns and misgendering. No reasonable school would file harassment charges for unintentional use of incorrect pronouns. We all widely accept that mistakes happen, but it is different when it is intentional, malicious, and repeated. I suppose if some a$$hole kid used someone's chosen pronouns and repeatedly bullied them and/or threatened them, it could be defined as harassment, and if sex or gender identity is the underlying reason, it would qualify as a Title IX violation. If that is the case, this level of bullying should be taken seriously, don't you agree?

You could have just ended the question at "a professor from Cornell" or simply "a professor," since people who are more educated tend to vote Democratic. Hell, that question doesn't even ask you to make an assumption, that's just statistical fact.

Maybe you have not seen it for decades, because you either weren't paying attention, or simply ignoring it. This hateful imagery has always been there, hiding in plain sight. Many of us didn't realize how bad it was, but it was always there. Trump used hate and vitriol toward marginalized communities as a campaign tactic, and he was successful. Seeing this, hate and racism has truly been emboldened since 2016, and the purveyors of this rhetoric and conduct have been empowered to no longer hide or downplay their ignorance. Soooo, you acknowledge that racists are prevalent, but in your mind, most of the victims are white folks. Amazing.