The Laboratories of The Left: University of Minnesota Considers Pronoun Rules

First, Peterson et al. are wrong to suggest that the main problem with such insanity is that it attempts to legally mandate nonstandard pronoun usage. That's an important problem, but it's secondary.

   The primary problem is that such usage presupposes falsehoods. By calling a male 'she', you're presupposing that he's female. And--anathema though it is to the left--truth matters. Denial of this point is the central idea of totalitarianism. Whether the government tries to force you to do so or not, there are good reasons to refuse. 

   But just a hairsbreadth behind is the second-most-important idea: infringement of freedom. 

   Not that I have any doubt that the court would strike down such insanity. We're obviously talking about compelled speech. Well...as long as we have a conservative court I'm confident that it would strike it down. I no longer trust the left on this issue, for obvious reasons. 

   Again, the cutting edge of the left is pretty up-front about its contempt for truth and autonomy. So there's nothing too surprising here...in a sense.

   As I've said before, everyone should be at DEFCON 1 over this situation. The courts now have to tell universities that they need to stop restricting speech. We are, politically speaking, in the Upside Down. Oh and: we now have to look to the right for defense of free expression... Strange days indeed.