Do you feel offended?
If you do, good reader, and if you are a student in California, congratulations! You have been a victim of harassment.
(Also: just for the record, I’ve adopted a new convention with the hyperlinks. “Tag” links will appear in normal-face font; actual links to content will appear in bold-face font.)
AB 537 has added sexual orientation and gender identity to the nondiscrimination provisions in California’s Education Code.
If there is any doubt as to the meaning of the new measures, THIS website of the San Francisco Unified School District helps us out: if someone merely feels offended, then they have been harassed.
SFUSD wrote: “Students don’t find using inappropriate language harassing, but I do! Then the language is harassing. If you find an action or use of language offensive/harassing then, it is.”
There is only one problem. I feel harassed by this radically subjective definition of harassment.
This kind of radical “I think, therefore it is” individualism is going to get San Francisco into a lot of trouble in very short order. As Mark Shea might put it, this is the “What could it hurt?” phase of the matter; the “How were we supposed to know?” phase will arrive presently, and will probably have more than a little to do with some conflict between e.g. orthodox Islam and the flagrant homosexuality which has become synonymous with San Fran.
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