There is no difference. No one is asking you to subjugate your thoughts or speech, they're asking you to use the right pronouns for them, when you might not know said correct pronouns. If that requires "mental slavery" on your part, the problem is you, not the ask.
This is why I said earlier that your mental state about this is irrelevant; all that matters is getting the pronouns right. If that requires some crazy redefinition of the categories of male and female, or the very concept of pronouns themselves, that's on you. I would hope that a few people not visually conforming to the gender you expect wouldn't require crazy mental gymnastics.
You even agree that it is possible and you're fine with it. I'm telling you the ideal you're fighting for is not related to this fight. I hope you recognize that now.
And, just to reiterate: obviously you're not required to get the pronouns right. But then you'll be removed from the communities where getting them right is important. This is not an abridgment of your rights, it is an exercise of the rights of the community.
Well, if this @thepracticaldev community adopts such policies of compelled speech, then me and people that upvoted me might be excluded.
What policies are you referring to here? As far as I'm aware, no one in these comments or the original article has suggested anything even remotely like new policies or policy changes.
But, even if they had, I feel I must point out to you that @thepracticaldev
community is not a totalitarian government. They cannot force you to change the way you think on threat of pain or death. If they adopt policies you don't like, you may leave (or be forced to leave), and suffer only a little unhappiness. Don't cheapen Orwell's very real warnings about excessive government authority by applying them to a minority group and a voluntary online community.
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There is no difference. No one is asking you to subjugate your thoughts or speech, they're asking you to use the right pronouns for them, when you might not know said correct pronouns. If that requires "mental slavery" on your part, the problem is you, not the ask.
This is why I said earlier that your mental state about this is irrelevant; all that matters is getting the pronouns right. If that requires some crazy redefinition of the categories of male and female, or the very concept of pronouns themselves, that's on you. I would hope that a few people not visually conforming to the gender you expect wouldn't require crazy mental gymnastics.
You even agree that it is possible and you're fine with it. I'm telling you the ideal you're fighting for is not related to this fight. I hope you recognize that now.
And, just to reiterate: obviously you're not required to get the pronouns right. But then you'll be removed from the communities where getting them right is important. This is not an abridgment of your rights, it is an exercise of the rights of the community.
What policies are you referring to here? As far as I'm aware, no one in these comments or the original article has suggested anything even remotely like new policies or policy changes.
But, even if they had, I feel I must point out to you that @thepracticaldev community is not a totalitarian government. They cannot force you to change the way you think on threat of pain or death. If they adopt policies you don't like, you may leave (or be forced to leave), and suffer only a little unhappiness. Don't cheapen Orwell's very real warnings about excessive government authority by applying them to a minority group and a voluntary online community.