As this teacher did, we can treat people with respect without submitting ourselves to their disrespect. We can say, "Yes, you exist in the world; however, you cannot control my language."
person: my pronouns are xzey/xzem me: did I just understand you correctly to say that your preferred pronouns are xzey/xzem? person: yes me: did those words you said come out of your mouth? person: yes me: who controls what comes out of your mouth? person: I do me: and who controls what comes out of my mouth? ... (end of discussion)
@@sagesaith6354 person: I don’t think god exists. Christian: reeeeeee!!!!!!!! You’re the devil! Person: I just think differently than you. Christian: you’re evil! You must think the same as me and I will make laws that Target less than one percent of the population. person: that’s a little weird… Christian: you will obey me! Person: Matthew 6:5-8 and leave me alone.
Any amount of alloance, of trying to "be nice" by "just playing alog with this person for now" leads to the mouse taking your house. IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE. This is an ideology just like weimar germany's ideological groups. Its not science. its not reality. Its a view of reality. And we should not give in.
This is true. However, in too many cases the language has already been ceded. For instance, the word "gender" has been adopted in place of sex. As soon as you use "gender," you've agreed to their terms. It's worse than people think it is.
This was my thought as well. Even if they don't succeed in the totality of things, they will have succeeded is creating fear amongst the crowd. Most ppl will not stand up for themselves in fear of being labeled, ostracized, or going through the whole process. It is easier to go along to get along.
@@wms72😂 you saying only he ever had thoughts about life, the billions of people before and after have no original thoughts? I doubt either were the first to think or say it 😂
@@psibug565 You suspect. In other words, you have no idea whether he knew it or not. You're just making an assumption based on the expert fallacy. Doesn't prove a thing.
It sounds like the complaint (at least part of it) was that "they" were demanding that he not only not use the anatomically correct pronoun but that he use the student's preferred pronoun. Simply not using pronouns at all in favor of gender neutral phrasing wasn't enough. How is that not unconstitutional compelled speech?
Language and thought are related. If you can dictate language, they're telling you how and what to think. The comment about the Thought Police is apt. This policing of language is doubleplus ungood.
person: my pronouns are xzey/xzem me: did I just understand you correctly to say that your preferred pronouns are xzey/xzem? person: yes me: did those words you said come out of your mouth? person: yes me: who controls what comes out of your mouth? person: I do me: and who controls what comes out of my mouth? ... (end of discussion)
I am with the teacher. I will use any name they choose, but I am not going to say black is white, 1+1=3, or a girl is a boy. These are objective truths.
I hear you but you. I do wish ppl would stay in the fight for thse kids even if it's being the one adult in the room so to speak who keeps correcting the child until it sinks in. Or helps in other ways. Schools are crazy with the LGBT ideology in some many places now. Places you'd never think West coast and big city garbage is typically found. Where my niece started middle school this year in super small town Maine they've had to fire 2 female teachers for pushing little 13 year old girls to be boys(who were just tomboys who happened to be mildly autistic from what I've gathered). One was a FT teacher the other a new teacher aid not quite a full on teacher from what I gather. Both had given girls chest binders and were talking to them in secret outside school. Luckily their moms found the binders and flipped. And to add, many don't get how dastardly those chest binders are for girls and women. Within a short period of time they can cause cists, breast cancer, deformation and ruin their ability to breast feed a child. And the last one the crazies would argue they don't want to be girls anymore but the fact from at least two credible studies show that a vast majority of kids who say they're trans or gender neutral go back to being normal not too far down the road. So robbing that from a future mother makes it more awful than most think. Just like with puberty blockers and how the activists and LGBT ideology pushers lie and say they can just "go off the hormones and then have puberty"(they can't, it doesn't work like that)it's all at it's core and all it's arguments are based off of those lies. It's child abuse to a whole new degree. Some do it for ideology, then there's the ones I think there's creeps who enjoy ruining young people or people in general and then there's the ones making the new medial procedures and meds being used off brand to the tune of many billions. Lifelong patients once they take a big enough step into it.
It requires belief in God to have an objective basis for believing that there is a difference between right and wrong. Without God setting the standards, it comes down to one's subjective opinion. Then why even have the concepts of right and wrong. Things then just are.
@@PJRaymentIt’s not God (or Gods) setting the standard, it’s society. Religions have codified these natural rules historically. Do we need God to tell us not to kill? Seems obvious.
@@CaptainMisery86 "All gods were invented by humans." Evidence please.* "All "holy" texts were written by humans." Evidence please (that they were all* written _solely_ by humans). *-Or just that Yahweh and the Bible were, if you prefer. "So even "god's" rights and wrongs are subjective." You're used good logic there. The problem is that valid logical conclusions don't mean squat if the premises are wrong. And you've simply asserted the premises without any evidence of them being true, and contrary to the beliefs of millions of people.
@@DemocratsUnite "How do you know someone’s true identity if you’re not living their life experience?" How do you know if a pet is a cat or a dog, if you're not living the life of the pet? You have eyes and a brain with knowledge in it.
@@DemocratsUnite I know biology/reality. I worked in the mental health field for decades. Encouraging people to live a life of lies, which is what denyng the reality of one's biology is, is abusive.
It is absurd that a truth can get a person fired or bring on the threat to be fired. And per the story, he was making an effort. At the moment of the offending word, he was was looking out for the best interest of the student as well. Crazy.
Yep, that'd be considered an "excited utterance" in the states that have such a law... there's an allowance made for not saying the right thing in the moment when something bad is about to happen, because they KNOW that our brains don't react well in panic situations! If it wasn't for the ideology, this would never have gone anywhere...
If it were truly an accident in a moment of concerned panic, he could have easily corrected himself. He _chose_ to stand fast and be a jerk. This isn't about "hijacking language," it's about respect. If he respects the person enough to use their new name, he can respect them enough to use the grammatical stand-in for their name, and use their preferred pronouns. But, he realizes that makes him look like a jerk, so he blusters up some religious crap to justify it.
@@stu1037 "He _chose_ to stand fast and be a jerk." How is it being a jerk to (accidentally) use a _correct_ pronoun? "This isn't about "hijacking language," it's about respect." Being respectful means being truthful to someone; it does not mean affirming their delusion. "If he respects the person enough to use their new name, he can respect them enough to use the grammatical stand-in for their name, and use their preferred pronouns." A person can choose to change their name. They cannot choose their pronouns, and they cannot expect others to use incorrect pronouns. "But, he realizes that makes him look like a jerk,..." Evidence that he realises that, please. "...so he blusters up some religious [deleted] to justify it." Where's your evidence that he "blusters" it up? And what is nonsense about the religion that has done more good in the world than any others, and is correct?
I agree with this language teacher. As an ESL teacher, I find it very hard to use "they" to refer to a single person. There's such a fear of offending people so we'll avoid it.
1:29 I HATE this question and answering “yeah” to: “Do you have a religious objection to the ideology behind preferred personal pronouns.” NO. This is NOT about religious beliefs. I have objections based on SCIENCE (not pseudoscience) and PSYCHOLOGY and EVIDENCE in general. I hate that people frame this as an issue of science vs. religious beliefs. It is NOT. There are plenty of people of all religions and none who disagree with gender ideology. Based on the facts themselves. I wish he hadn’t answered “Yeah” at the start. He should have answered “not at all” because his answer had nothing to do with religion specifically.
If the board hadn't gone along with it, it wouldn't have gone this far. And he specifically said the superintendent was involved, hence the board had to know.
Liberal "tolerance" in America has been a ONE WAY TRANSACTION since I first encountered it in the late 1980's. Thanks NMH. You helped start me on the path of critical thinking that absolutely destroys liberalism by exposing their logical fallacies and lies.
@@Alan59-n9d In French, every noun is either masculine or feminine. Nouns that end in -e, -iè, -ette, or -ique are usually feminine, while nouns that end in a consonant, -eau, or -age are usually masculine. However, there are many exceptions to these rules. Spanish is similar, with an "o" ending word generally being masculine, and an "a" ending word feminine. The notion of "LatinX" is beyond ridiculous, It was invented by ignorant woke elites trying to force Spanish to be more like English.
I agree with using the new first name as any person can change any name and that is their choice. I have no problem with calling a person by their chosen name, even if that name was historically associated with the opposite sex. There are many names that have been used for both sexes, after all. However, it is not their choice to demand everyone use the incorrect pronouns as well (let alone inventing new ones). Especially when trying to teach a Romance Language that still has masculine and feminine nouns and verb conjugations it is especially wrong for a person to demand the whole language change to match their internal reality.
Do not participate in their lies. These people are lost, they need someone to guide them back. Always and only use their birth name. Never use pronouns.
Years ago, when Prince changed his name to "The Artist," I imagined someone drawing a cartoon where he was walking towards peril and an observer in the cartoon was paralyzed by the inability to know what to call him. A thought balloon would be over the observer with the symbol, but he would remain mute. This is the exact situation this teacher was in. Do you react properly or parse your words as the student hits the wall?
One doesn't need to be a Christian to oppose absurdity. All school supervisors and principals should be forced to read "1984". Right now they think 2+2=5.
Being a Christian involves following the biblical/Christian principle of not lying. What objective reason does an atheist have for not lying? What is actually wrong about lying?
Thank you for your courage and God bless you and your family. Thank you ADF, for this video. I hope you have already or will park a copy on Rumble as well since I wouldn't put it past Google to delete this video one day.
I think it’s sad and unfortunate that there are people who, for ideological reasons, fail to affirm who that little girl is and don’t encourage her to embrace her authentic self. A girl.
I refuse to go along with the lies. It is my opinion those folks have some mental instabilities that need to be addressed rather than coddled and allowed to believe and promote the delusion they live in. On the other side of that, those who promote it and punish those who don't go along with it, are attempting to control thought and police speech. Just because I disagree with you does not mean I hate you.
Being a Christian involves following the biblical/Christian principle of not lying. What objective reason does an atheist have for not lying? What is actually wrong about lying?
@@PJRaymentBecause it is ENTIRELY possible to be accountable to YOURSELF, and not destroying your PERSONAL honor, without requiring a belief in God to do so. People who use God that way are just too afraid to stand on their OWN morals, and say, "No, I won't do that, because it would lower my respect of myself, and I'm not willing to do that."
@@kateshiningdeer3334 "Because it is ENTIRELY possible to be accountable to YOURSELF, and not destroying your PERSONAL honor,..." That presupposes that you have some standard that you want to meet. But where does that standard come from? "People who use God that way are just too afraid to stand on their OWN morals, ..." False. First, nobody is "using" God. Second, It's nothing to do with being afraid. It's to do with understanding logic and reality. Where do you get your "OWN" morals from? Your own subjective opinion? How is that a basis for deciding right and wrong? In fact what is your basis for even having the concept of right and wrong? Under a godless view, things just are; there is no right and wrong.
@@kateshiningdeer3334 _Second attempt_ "Because it is ENTIRELY possible to be accountable to YOURSELF, and not destroying your PERSONAL honor,..." That presupposes that you have some standard that you want to meet. But where does that standard come from? "People who use God that way are just too afraid to stand on their OWN morals, ..." False. First, nobody is "using" God. Second, It's nothing to do with being afraid. It's to do with understanding logic and reality. Where do you get your "OWN" morals from? Your own subjective opinion? How is that a basis for deciding right and wrong? In fact what is your basis for even having the concept of right and wrong? Under a godless view, things just are; there is no right and wrong.
@DemocratsUnite Obviously she needs help the poor, young, impressionable girl. I remember my younger days, then it was drugs, alcohol, immoral lyrics and entertainment content that the evil and idiotic people presented to me to "help" me through my uncertainty. Now those same ilk have advanced to this to "get them while they're young." Then they spend a lifetime suffering the consequences while the monsters move on to their next victims. "A sucker born every minute" they say about us average people they keep down and hurting for control. If only the populace would ALL wake up and redirect our attention to our enemy's tactics. I feel for the young who've been brainwashed to be "offended" if we don't allow them to control our speech, and thoughts even. The day will come they will realize how used they really were, and of their own free will because they refused to respect people who care about them. Dark times we're in for sure.
@@DemocratsUnite "The student identified as a male,..." Which she wasn't. "... so HE used the masculine pronouns Correction: SHE used the masculine pronouns, for some bizarre (trendy) reason.
Forcing someone to lie should automatically be a prison sentence. No one knows what the end game of the lie will be, but it will affect the student for life, and as such should be a life sentence for the enforcer. The worst crime in the life of a human is to disrupt the mind of a newly created influential child. The crimes against the young determine their futures in unimaginable ways and should be prosecuted without defense. If one has the ability to manipulate they will not be able to claim insanity.
Teachers should anonymously tell parents this BS so they are aware, if they can. They should prepare for any potential lawsuit so if it happens, they are ready to sue. If they get sued enough times, they will drop their crap. Yes I know, easier said than done, at least prepare incase it happens unexpectedly.
Yes. Because they are trying to push an agenda and an advantage. And the so called 'sane' public are l cowards and gutless. And sell their morality to the highest bidder
It’s crazy that we’re at this point in our society. The government trying to control how people think, forcing people to go along with someone’s personal delusions, it’s madness. Literal madness. Glad this teacher took a stand and won.
Amazing how people can oppress someone with claims of oppression as the justification. Identify how you feel but when you start imposing your will over others you are the oppressor not the oppressed.
Teachers have been placed in a very tough place in an already difficult situation. It is beyone unfair. Wonderful that this intelligent teacher stood up.
Having raised children in this crazy time and seen their friends go through interesting times, my advice to them has always been to explore in private and do not bring this into the classroom, do not tell counselors, or any medical doctor or psychiatric professions. I made a distinction for other matters - yes, report abuse, yes report bullying, yes report problems in the home. I explained that making a decision too soon could result in you being railroaded into something that you are too young to deal with. This has worked well. Too many young people seem to think that sexuality and gender identity are like clothing that you can put on to try and then move on to something else - as if it were a choice. And many do move on to other identifies, and many grow to realize that they were never what they thought. It was an idea based their natural discomfort of their situations and puberty. Reaffirming that puberty can be challenging, but they will get through it. Reinforcing that they are more than any fleeting idea, and that they are loved by family and friends.
The fact that NONE of the other teachers stood up for him - in fear of their own jobs - shows how fascist high school administration, school boards and college administrators have devolved into a sort of soft-fascism.
When I first read of this case, I was astounded that it happened in West Point, as opposed to in one of the loony-tunes suburbs of DC. It just goes to show you how far and wide our education schools/agencies spread these ideologies. Locals in conservative areas cannot afford to be complacent and need to keep a close eye on their school board. Thank heaven for teachers like Vlaming who stand their ground and for the ADF !
CONGRATS! As I see it the problem is the parents. Letting their DAUGHTER drag them into her make believe world instead of raising her. Sounds like she has her parents wrapped around her finger. Or, maybe they really wanted a boy and they think this is their chance?
If one is no longer allowed to pass on basic language skills to the next generation, then what will become of an uneducated society? We don't see laws that make inheritance illegal. Mine as well if basic skills are made a punishable offense or illegal. Congress shall make no law. And you will hear congress people say such when hearing things such as this.
these are the kind of things that have to be taken out of our school. teachers have to be required to spend the time on the subject they are paid to teach while leaving all woke, politcal beliefs and agenda at the door. when did ya last hear of a 'teacher' doing the right thing
It will begin to phase out in 2025. The core behind all of this is the Satanic belief system being pushed. The controllers of this planet are minions of that system and it does continue and is based, off planet. Not kidding. I am NOT a religious person at all. I am a truther and researcher.
I am glad he won. That we are having this conversation is absolutely ridiculous!
We need teachers with this kind of integrity.
As this teacher did, we can treat people with respect without submitting ourselves to their disrespect. We can say, "Yes, you exist in the world; however, you cannot control my language."
person: my pronouns are xzey/xzem
me: did I just understand you correctly to say that your preferred pronouns are xzey/xzem?
person: yes
me: did those words you said come out of your mouth?
person: yes
me: who controls what comes out of your mouth?
person: I do
me: and who controls what comes out of my mouth? ...
(end of discussion)
@@sagesaith6354 That _should_ be ...(end of discussion)....
but for the Left, it never is.
@@sagesaith6354 person: I don’t think god exists.
Christian: reeeeeee!!!!!!!! You’re the devil!
Person: I just think differently than you.
Christian: you’re evil! You must think the same as me and I will make laws that Target less than one percent of the population.
person: that’s a little weird…
Christian: you will obey me!
Person: Matthew 6:5-8 and leave me alone.
@@anonygrazer3234 for the Left -- it's never a discussion to begin with .. ;-)
@sagesaith6354
That ignores the fact that the whole purpose of this exercise is to control you, not just what you say and do, but control your mind.
If you cede the language, you cede the argument.
Bingo!
Any amount of alloance, of trying to "be nice" by "just playing alog with this person for now" leads to the mouse taking your house. IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE. This is an ideology just like weimar germany's ideological groups. Its not science. its not reality. Its a view of reality. And we should not give in.
This is true. However, in too many cases the language has already been ceded. For instance, the word "gender" has been adopted in place of sex. As soon as you use "gender," you've agreed to their terms. It's worse than people think it is.
"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
~ George Orwell, 1984
I admire this man's courage and willingness to defend truth.
The process is the punishment. It takes a strong person to follow through. Thanks! Peace.
This was my thought as well. Even if they don't succeed in the totality of things, they will have succeeded is creating fear amongst the crowd. Most ppl will not stand up for themselves in fear of being labeled, ostracized, or going through the whole process. It is easier to go along to get along.
It is like the story "The Emperor with no clothes", where the citizens are not allowed to state the truth because it goes against the official policy.
"the emperor's new clothes"*
that story pretty much defines the democrat party from andrew jackson til now
And there are millions of teenage spolied brat emperors
Do not live by lies. 😇
The trans issue has never been about tolerance, inclusion, compassion, or even about trans people. It has always been about POWER.
BULLSEYE
It’s about wanting child legal consent.
INGSOC
What power do I gain by you treating me like a human being? GFY
“EVIL IS NOT ABLE TO CREATE ANYTHING NEW. IT CAN ONLY DISTORT AND DESTROY WHAT HAS BEEN INVENTED OR MADE BY THE FORCES OF GOOD.” J. R. R. Tolkien
St. Augustine said this almost 1700 years ago. Tolkien is just repeating Augustine.
@@wms72
Maybe he's quoting Augustine. Maybe he's never heard that quote before and came to the same conclusion years later.
@@wms72😂 you saying only he ever had thoughts about life, the billions of people before and after have no original thoughts? I doubt either were the first to think or say it 😂
@@JackHaveman52TBF Tolkien was a professor of Mythology, I suspect he knew who he was quoting.
@@psibug565
You suspect. In other words, you have no idea whether he knew it or not. You're just making an assumption based on the expert fallacy. Doesn't prove a thing.
Playing along with someone serious mental issues is definitely not going to fix anything.
But what if you're wrong about your jump to it being any kind of illness at all.
Trust me, none of us want to speak to you, if we are forced to because of work it's just a coincidence. GFY
It sounds like the complaint (at least part of it) was that "they" were demanding that he not only not use the anatomically correct pronoun but that he use the student's preferred pronoun. Simply not using pronouns at all in favor of gender neutral phrasing wasn't enough. How is that not unconstitutional compelled speech?
Courageous. Thank you.
Language and thought are related. If you can dictate language, they're telling you how and what to think. The comment about the Thought Police is apt. This policing of language is doubleplus ungood.
Doubleplus Ungood. I see what you did there. Er, I mean I didn't see. That's how we speak. That's how we've always spoken!
person: my pronouns are xzey/xzem
me: did I just understand you correctly to say that your preferred pronouns are xzey/xzem?
person: yes
me: did those words you said come out of your mouth?
person: yes
me: who controls what comes out of your mouth?
person: I do
me: and who controls what comes out of my mouth? ...
(end of discussion)
why cant we say the N word then?
I do not play the game. I do not use pronouns and call them by their last name.
I am with the teacher. I will use any name they choose, but I am not going to say black is white, 1+1=3, or a girl is a boy. These are objective truths.
Yes, but in this case and others, that's often not good enough for the thought police.
Nope, use their birth name only. It's who they are. You do not need to participate in their lie.
Well done! Good on ya for pressing your point to the max! Every precedent builds our case!
Hopefully the tide of insanity is turning.
I also called a female student a "she" instead of he. I was publicly corrected by other teachers. I retired the next year. Done.
And that's how they win.
I hear you but you. I do wish ppl would stay in the fight for thse kids even if it's being the one adult in the room so to speak who keeps correcting the child until it sinks in. Or helps in other ways.
Schools are crazy with the LGBT ideology in some many places now. Places you'd never think West coast and big city garbage is typically found. Where my niece started middle school this year in super small town Maine they've had to fire 2 female teachers for pushing little 13 year old girls to be boys(who were just tomboys who happened to be mildly autistic from what I've gathered). One was a FT teacher the other a new teacher aid not quite a full on teacher from what I gather. Both had given girls chest binders and were talking to them in secret outside school. Luckily their moms found the binders and flipped.
And to add, many don't get how dastardly those chest binders are for girls and women. Within a short period of time they can cause cists, breast cancer, deformation and ruin their ability to breast feed a child. And the last one the crazies would argue they don't want to be girls anymore but the fact from at least two credible studies show that a vast majority of kids who say they're trans or gender neutral go back to being normal not too far down the road. So robbing that from a future mother makes it more awful than most think. Just like with puberty blockers and how the activists and LGBT ideology pushers lie and say they can just "go off the hormones and then have puberty"(they can't, it doesn't work like that)it's all at it's core and all it's arguments are based off of those lies. It's child abuse to a whole new degree. Some do it for ideology, then there's the ones I think there's creeps who enjoy ruining young people or people in general and then there's the ones making the new medial procedures and meds being used off brand to the tune of many billions. Lifelong patients once they take a big enough step into it.
Good. We don’t need bigots in the classroom.
Glad you have a good retirement but running away doesn't resolve the issue.
@ we don’t need bigoted teachers
NO ONE should be COERCED into participating in someone else's DELUSIONS!!!
Someone’s gender identity is not a delusion
@@DemocratsUnite
"Someone’s gender identity is not a delusion"
If they are a girl and sincerely think they are a boy, how is that not a delusion?
Absolutely! Excellent comment! ❤️🇺🇸🙏
@@ElaineWood-f2t so can we take the 10 commandments out of public schools then? I don’t want my kids participating in your delusions.
You mean Bullied ......
Why do some people's feelings trump other people's feelings ?!
What do you mean? The question needs context
@valerief1231 The video is the context...
@ who’s feelings are invalidated?
@@valerief1231 The teachers and everyone who agrees with the teacher's opinion/feelings
Christian’s seem to think only their feelings count. Persecution complexes are real and strong in Christians.
He's in the same place as Jordan Peterson.
It doesn't require any religious faith to refuse to go along with a delusional assumption.
It requires belief in God to have an objective basis for believing that there is a difference between right and wrong. Without God setting the standards, it comes down to one's subjective opinion. Then why even have the concepts of right and wrong. Things then just are.
@@PJRaymentIt’s not God (or Gods) setting the standard, it’s society. Religions have codified these natural rules historically. Do we need God to tell us not to kill? Seems obvious.
@@PJRayment All gods were invented by humans. All "holy" texts were written by humans. So even "god's" rights and wrongs are subjective.
@@CaptainMisery86
"All gods were invented by humans."
Evidence please.*
"All "holy" texts were written by humans."
Evidence please (that they were all* written _solely_ by humans).
*-Or just that Yahweh and the Bible were, if you prefer.
"So even "god's" rights and wrongs are subjective."
You're used good logic there. The problem is that valid logical conclusions don't mean squat if the premises are wrong. And you've simply asserted the premises without any evidence of them being true, and contrary to the beliefs of millions of people.
@@PJRayment why do so many religions have similar origin stories if there is only one true God?
Affirrming delusions is bad mental healrh practice. It hurts everyone, especially the deluded.
How do you know someone’s true identity if you’re not living their life experience?
@@DemocratsUnite
People have all kinds of experiences. Reality doesn't change because of them.
@@DemocratsUnite
"How do you know someone’s true identity if you’re not living their life experience?"
How do you know if a pet is a cat or a dog, if you're not living the life of the pet?
You have eyes and a brain with knowledge in it.
@@DemocratsUnite I know biology/reality. I worked in the mental health field for decades. Encouraging people to live a life of lies, which is what denyng the reality of one's biology is, is abusive.
@ I see that LGBTQ patients would not have been safe in your care
It takes us all to stand up for what we believe in
Religion shouldn't have anything to do with it, it's pure reality of our physical world.
It is absurd that a truth can get a person fired or bring on the threat to be fired. And per the story, he was making an effort. At the moment of the offending word, he was was looking out for the best interest of the student as well. Crazy.
Yep, that'd be considered an "excited utterance" in the states that have such a law... there's an allowance made for not saying the right thing in the moment when something bad is about to happen, because they KNOW that our brains don't react well in panic situations!
If it wasn't for the ideology, this would never have gone anywhere...
If it were truly an accident in a moment of concerned panic, he could have easily corrected himself. He _chose_ to stand fast and be a jerk. This isn't about "hijacking language," it's about respect. If he respects the person enough to use their new name, he can respect them enough to use the grammatical stand-in for their name, and use their preferred pronouns. But, he realizes that makes him look like a jerk, so he blusters up some religious crap to justify it.
@@stu1037 men cannot become women or vice versa. Good talk
@@stu1037
"He _chose_ to stand fast and be a jerk."
How is it being a jerk to (accidentally) use a _correct_ pronoun?
"This isn't about "hijacking language," it's about respect."
Being respectful means being truthful to someone; it does not mean affirming their delusion.
"If he respects the person enough to use their new name, he can respect them enough to use the grammatical stand-in for their name, and use their preferred pronouns."
A person can choose to change their name. They cannot choose their pronouns, and they cannot expect others to use incorrect pronouns.
"But, he realizes that makes him look like a jerk,..."
Evidence that he realises that, please.
"...so he blusters up some religious [deleted] to justify it."
Where's your evidence that he "blusters" it up?
And what is nonsense about the religion that has done more good in the world than any others, and is correct?
@@stu1037just stop it.
Get some mental help.
I agree with this language teacher. As an ESL teacher, I find it very hard to use "they" to refer to a single person. There's such a fear of offending people so we'll avoid it.
Use proper grammar, dont cede one inch, get a lawyer. Sometimes we win but caving in is losing and strengthening them.
Multiple personalities?
@@tigerlily1517 Yes. That and demon possession.
The parents in a sane world would be investigated for child abuse. The school for allowing it as well, maybe.
1:29 I HATE this question and answering “yeah” to: “Do you have a religious objection to the ideology behind preferred personal pronouns.” NO. This is NOT about religious beliefs. I have objections based on SCIENCE (not pseudoscience) and PSYCHOLOGY and EVIDENCE in general. I hate that people frame this as an issue of science vs. religious beliefs. It is NOT. There are plenty of people of all religions and none who disagree with gender ideology. Based on the facts themselves. I wish he hadn’t answered “Yeah” at the start. He should have answered “not at all” because his answer had nothing to do with religion specifically.
They only care about feelings which mean self worship which is satanic ideology.
Excellent news! Thank you for fighting the good fight. God bless us all!
I hope this was a public school so the school board can fire those responsible and if it they don’t they can all be voted out !
The school boards are the ones pushing this.
If the board hadn't gone along with it, it wouldn't have gone this far. And he specifically said the superintendent was involved, hence the board had to know.
Nice to see this mess getting the push back it deserves finally.
Liberal "tolerance" in America has been a ONE WAY TRANSACTION since I first encountered it in the late 1980's. Thanks NMH. You helped start me on the path of critical thinking that absolutely destroys liberalism by exposing their logical fallacies and lies.
Whoever controls the language controls the argument.
After you acknowledge that 2+2=5 as the Party requires , all will be well !
O’Brian
Till 2+2=7
So protecting her safety gets you fired
2/0 = 53
You cannot have divided by zero.
The world didnt end.@@mikecrooks8085
… and pie are squared.
so many administrators, judges, tribunal members, etc. need to be removed and banned from any position of authority or adjudication.
Peter you stood up for us all when you stood up for yourself.
Thank you sir.
I have a religious objection, and a common sense objection. It's wrong to lie.
An intelligent and articulate man. Kudos to him!!
So many good teachers can't afford to not be employed. Thay know that.
Their absence in your life is manifest.
@@melanies.6030 Huh?
Every career path is subject to coercion. Sadly.
He is a great example to the other students on truth and standing up for truth.
This is why I will never teach again. So glad I got out when I did.
Thank God it will soon stop.
@@dawn6320 so a school shooting happened at a school with the Ten Commandments? Can we stop participating in your delusions too?
As a French teacher, he’s also aware that the Romance languages are steeped in words that are either masculine or feminine.
What , like They Them ?
@@Alan59-n9d In French, every noun is either masculine or feminine. Nouns that end in -e, -iè, -ette, or -ique are usually feminine, while nouns that end in a consonant, -eau, or -age are usually masculine. However, there are many exceptions to these rules.
Spanish is similar, with an "o" ending word generally being masculine, and an "a" ending word feminine. The notion of "LatinX" is beyond ridiculous, It was invented by ignorant woke elites trying to force Spanish to be more like English.
@@Alan59-n9d no like "on the table" is sur la table - la is the feminine singular article because table is feminine in the French language.
And Ihat those gender assignments also bear no resemblance to reality.
@@Alan59-n9d Try le, la.
I agree with using the new first name as any person can change any name and that is their choice. I have no problem with calling a person by their chosen name, even if that name was historically associated with the opposite sex. There are many names that have been used for both sexes, after all. However, it is not their choice to demand everyone use the incorrect pronouns as well (let alone inventing new ones). Especially when trying to teach a Romance Language that still has masculine and feminine nouns and verb conjugations it is especially wrong for a person to demand the whole language change to match their internal reality.
Do not participate in their lies. These people are lost, they need someone to guide them back. Always and only use their birth name. Never use pronouns.
Years ago, when Prince changed his name to "The Artist," I imagined someone drawing a cartoon where he was walking towards peril and an observer in the cartoon was paralyzed by the inability to know what to call him. A thought balloon would be over the observer with the symbol, but he would remain mute.
This is the exact situation this teacher was in. Do you react properly or parse your words as the student hits the wall?
I'll take "Prescience that never happened" for $5, Alex.
One doesn't need to be a Christian to oppose absurdity. All school supervisors and principals should be forced to read "1984". Right now they think 2+2=5.
Being a Christian involves following the biblical/Christian principle of not lying.
What objective reason does an atheist have for not lying? What is actually wrong about lying?
The problem is they HAVE. They just agree with The Party.
Thank you for your courage and God bless you and your family. Thank you ADF, for this video. I hope you have already or will park a copy on Rumble as well since I wouldn't put it past Google to delete this video one day.
I think it’s sad and unfortunate that there are people who, for ideological reasons, fail to affirm who that little girl is and don’t encourage her to embrace her authentic self. A girl.
Dr. Peterson predicted this years ago.
I refuse to go along with the lies. It is my opinion those folks have some mental instabilities that need to be addressed rather than coddled and allowed to believe and promote the delusion they live in. On the other side of that, those who promote it and punish those who don't go along with it, are attempting to control thought and police speech. Just because I disagree with you does not mean I hate you.
Congratulations! Thank you for your courage.
Bravo, sir. 👏🏼
I retired early for the exact same reason just last December. It hurts me financially but I'm not going to lie to the kids
you cant give these people an inch, that was HIS problem to start with.
And yet Ireland jails a teacher for refusing this very same thing. And he is still there.
Ireland is dead. They also sided with Hamas and their 10/7 terrorist attack.
Your view which I totally agree with, has nothing to do with your personal faith, ie being a Christian. Stand up for your freedom period.
Being a Christian involves following the biblical/Christian principle of not lying.
What objective reason does an atheist have for not lying? What is actually wrong about lying?
@@PJRaymentBecause it is ENTIRELY possible to be accountable to YOURSELF, and not destroying your PERSONAL honor, without requiring a belief in God to do so.
People who use God that way are just too afraid to stand on their OWN morals, and say, "No, I won't do that, because it would lower my respect of myself, and I'm not willing to do that."
@@kateshiningdeer3334
"Because it is ENTIRELY possible to be accountable to YOURSELF, and not destroying your PERSONAL honor,..."
That presupposes that you have some standard that you want to meet. But where does that standard come from?
"People who use God that way are just too afraid to stand on their OWN morals, ..."
False. First, nobody is "using" God.
Second, It's nothing to do with being afraid. It's to do with understanding logic and reality. Where do you get your "OWN" morals from? Your own subjective opinion? How is that a basis for deciding right and wrong? In fact what is your basis for even having the concept of right and wrong? Under a godless view, things just are; there is no right and wrong.
@@kateshiningdeer3334
_Second attempt_
"Because it is ENTIRELY possible to be accountable to YOURSELF, and not destroying your PERSONAL honor,..."
That presupposes that you have some standard that you want to meet. But where does that standard come from?
"People who use God that way are just too afraid to stand on their OWN morals, ..."
False. First, nobody is "using" God.
Second, It's nothing to do with being afraid. It's to do with understanding logic and reality. Where do you get your "OWN" morals from? Your own subjective opinion? How is that a basis for deciding right and wrong? In fact what is your basis for even having the concept of right and wrong? Under a godless view, things just are; there is no right and wrong.
@@PJRaymentWrong!
Good for this teacher for sticking to his morals. Enough of this nonsense!
Children shouldn't be able to BOSS teachers anyway
But they do, thanks to administrators who enjoy being mean to their teachers. Especially the good ones. 1984 is alive and well in our schools.
Good thing this case was not held in California or Colorado or Washington. Outcome would have been different
Delusional means delusional.
You control the language you control the people.This will backfire.
Until the people that tried to make him do this are fired, this idiocy will continue!
Wow. Over the word "she" when referring to a female?!
The student identified as a male, so HE used the masculine pronouns
@DemocratsUnite
Obviously she needs help the poor, young, impressionable girl. I remember my younger days, then it was drugs, alcohol, immoral lyrics and entertainment content that the evil and idiotic people presented to me to "help" me through my uncertainty. Now those same ilk have advanced to this to "get them while they're young." Then they spend a lifetime suffering the consequences while the monsters move on to their next victims. "A sucker born every minute" they say about us average people they keep down and hurting for control. If only the populace would ALL wake up and redirect our attention to our enemy's tactics. I feel for the young who've been brainwashed to be "offended" if we don't allow them to control our speech, and thoughts even. The day will come they will realize how used they really were, and of their own free will because they refused to respect people who care about them. Dark times we're in for sure.
@@DemocratsUnite
"The student identified as a male,..."
Which she wasn't.
"... so HE used the masculine pronouns
Correction: SHE used the masculine pronouns, for some bizarre (trendy) reason.
Forcing someone to lie should automatically be a prison sentence. No one knows what the end game of the lie will be, but it will affect the student for life, and as such should be a life sentence for the enforcer. The worst crime in the life of a human is to disrupt the mind of a newly created influential child. The crimes against the young determine their futures in unimaginable ways and should be prosecuted without defense. If one has the ability to manipulate they will not be able to claim insanity.
Glad there is ONE teacher with integrity.
Teachers should anonymously tell parents this BS so they are aware, if they can.
They should prepare for any potential lawsuit so if it happens, they are ready to sue.
If they get sued enough times, they will drop their crap.
Yes I know, easier said than done, at least prepare incase it happens unexpectedly.
Yes. Because they are trying to push an agenda and an advantage. And the so called 'sane' public are l cowards and gutless. And sell their morality to the highest bidder
U try to take a Test in School, You'll Fail not answering questions correctly.
This is forcing a totalitarian state
not asking questions about how it works
....especially if you think "you" is spelled "u".
How many generations will this infect? How many already?
It’s crazy that we’re at this point in our society. The government trying to control how people think, forcing people to go along with someone’s personal delusions, it’s madness. Literal madness. Glad this teacher took a stand and won.
Struggle session is over.
If other teachers had stood up for you, they would have been put on the naughty list, too, and their jobs would be in jeopardy.
May we all have the courage to stand in truth and tell the truth in love.
Amazing how people can oppress someone with claims of oppression as the justification. Identify how you feel but when you start imposing your will over others you are the oppressor not the oppressed.
Teachers have been placed in a very tough place in an already difficult situation. It is beyone unfair. Wonderful that this intelligent teacher stood up.
Having raised children in this crazy time and seen their friends go through interesting times, my advice to them has always been to explore in private and do not bring this into the classroom, do not tell counselors, or any medical doctor or psychiatric professions. I made a distinction for other matters - yes, report abuse, yes report bullying, yes report problems in the home. I explained that making a decision too soon could result in you being railroaded into something that you are too young to deal with. This has worked well. Too many young people seem to think that sexuality and gender identity are like clothing that you can put on to try and then move on to something else - as if it were a choice. And many do move on to other identifies, and many grow to realize that they were never what they thought. It was an idea based their natural discomfort of their situations and puberty. Reaffirming that puberty can be challenging, but they will get through it. Reinforcing that they are more than any fleeting idea, and that they are loved by family and friends.
I have no understanding how this even works.
Well said…..thank you .
Glad he won. All this over a pronoun
It is not about a pronoun, it is about power.
We now have girls standing up for themselves in sports now we need teachers to have the guts to do the same in schools.
Congrats, but agter lawyer fees, seems like a small win for losing his career
The fact that NONE of the other teachers stood up for him - in fear of their own jobs - shows how fascist high school administration, school boards and college administrators have devolved into a sort of soft-fascism.
When I first read of this case, I was astounded that it happened in West Point, as opposed to in one of the loony-tunes suburbs of DC. It just goes to show you how far and wide our education schools/agencies spread these ideologies. Locals in conservative areas cannot afford to be complacent and need to keep a close eye on their school board.
Thank heaven for teachers like Vlaming who stand their ground and for the ADF !
CONGRATS! As I see it the problem is the parents. Letting their DAUGHTER drag them into her make believe world instead of raising her. Sounds like she has her parents wrapped around her finger. Or, maybe they really wanted a boy and they think this is their chance?
Thank you for your courage to speak the truth.
If one is no longer allowed to pass on basic language skills to the next generation, then what will become of an uneducated society? We don't see laws that make inheritance illegal. Mine as well if basic skills are made a punishable offense or illegal. Congress shall make no law. And you will hear congress people say such when hearing things such as this.
Much respect to this teacher
Thank you for standing strong! Much respect for your choice to stand true!
Thank you, Mr Vlaming, for standing your ground and trusting in the Lord.
A person's psychological dysfunction doesn't create an obligation for the other. Ie lies.
these are the kind of things that have to be taken out of our school. teachers have to be required to spend the time on the subject they are paid to teach while leaving all woke, politcal beliefs and agenda at the door. when did ya last hear of a 'teacher' doing the right thing
Good man! Stand against this type of freakery.
Hopefully, this madness will go away soon.
Good for you,!
I really bet his students love him.
When is this F insanity gonna end????
It will begin to phase out in 2025. The core behind all of this is the Satanic belief system being pushed. The controllers of this planet are minions of that system and it does continue and is based, off planet. Not kidding. I am NOT a religious person at all. I am a truther and researcher.
Disney has started moving away from it. So hopefully very soon
He is an awesome teacher. We need more like him.
Bless you sir.
This could have gone the other way if he had an activist judge, jurors.
I believe , in the coming months, corrupt judges will be purged out.
America's Jordan Peterson. It only took 200 years but we finally got one.
Bravo Sir❤
Congratulations! I hope with your win you made millions.