Politics California To Have Harsher Penalty For Pronoun Violations Than For Knowingly Spreading HIV

I think if you can make a case for abuse, I think prosecution could be warranted.

 

One could argue who's mis-gendering whom, but let's address deliberately spreading HIV/AIDS.

Willfully and repeatedly infecting people with a deadly, horrifically painful disease.

In other words, deliberately calculated serial mass murder.

1. Insulting (in their opinion) people verbally is a protected Constitutional right.

2. Murdering/torturing them is obviously not.

The first should be met with a "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me" attitude.

The second should be punished with the death penalty.

 

Completely unenforceable, as any behavioral expert will testify in court that long-established habits are simply more powerful and controlling than a person's willpower.

 

They're talking about building a case for abuse. They're including something like verbal abuse to help build the case. I don't see why this is such a big deal.

 

While it may be correct in your mind, roughly 7 billion people have been taught the words boy, girl, man, woman, Mr, Mrs, Miss, are all descriptive terms which refer quite clearly to people based on their actual physical, biological sex. If a trans-sexual demands that people call him/her Mr or Miss, I think a lot of people will just call them Transexual Sue or Surgically-altered female to male Bob, or some other totally accurate description. Is that the goal? Maybe some new terms can be invented to make everybody happy.

In the meantime I'll just continue calling people by their names, as I've always done.

 

Most people are of the opinion that The First Amendment is in fact, a big deal.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

 

That's the problem with the way politicians think. Keep the long sentences for the 7 people who did it on purpose. Why is that so hard to grasp?

 

http://www.kgw.com/news/crime/man-c...after-threatening-muslim-police-say/455200289

Freedom of speech doesn't protect you from hate crimes.

 

Except that now it has been written that the max is 6 months. Some other law going to override this? Doubt it.

 

If you have a law that specifically limits the max penalty for giving someone salmonella that's the new limit. Does your post's brain not function today? (This is fun @dviss1 )

 

That's the entire point. You just gave a lawyer an argument to make because you were too dumb to differentiate between 7 bad cases and 500 other hooker cases.

 

Liked today's dumbest post. I always do

 

You think some DA is going to charge a guy with basic assault or some other crime for this situation and his lawyer won't use this law as a defense? Get real. This is the new limit. Unless there is a federal law covering this, in California it is six months. The end.