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NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronouns
« on: December 13, 2019, 05:37:42 PM »
NYC regulators want their taxi drivers to ask all passengers what their preferred pronouns are. That should go over well.

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/12/13/nyc-wants-taxi-drivers-to-ask-passengers-their-preferred-pronouns/
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Re: NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronound
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2019, 05:40:59 PM »
I want mine to be 'dumbass'.
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Re: NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronound
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2019, 05:44:13 PM »
Quote from: Ben on December 13, 2019, 05:37:42 PM
NYC regulators want their taxi drivers to ask all passengers what their preferred pronouns are. That should go over well.

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/12/13/nyc-wants-taxi-drivers-to-ask-passengers-their-preferred-pronouns/

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Re: NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronouns
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2019, 06:45:01 PM »
Do they mean that pronoun which the customers prefer to call the driver?
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Re: NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronouns
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2019, 09:39:28 PM »
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Re: NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronouns
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2019, 12:19:20 AM »
Do we require NYC taxi drivers to speak English now?  It's been a few years since I was there, but English, or even non grunt based communication, was not universal among cab drivers the last time I was there.
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Re: NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronouns
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2019, 05:56:30 AM »
I thought NYC taxi drivers had one pronoun for all passengers...

Where you going, ahole?

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Re: NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronouns
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2019, 01:39:49 PM »
Just ask: "Where does the body you are occupying wish to go?" =|

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Re: NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronouns
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2019, 12:48:04 AM »
All joking aside, this is the kind of law that catapulted Jordan Peterson to YouTube star and Evil Nazi Racist.

I would think that on this side of the border any law requiring specific pronouns, or that you ask for them, would be shot down pretty quickly on 1A grounds, but you never know the kind of legal logic knot tying they'll get up to.
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Re: NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronouns
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2019, 01:16:16 AM »
Like the man said, "life's harder when you're stupid." Now they want to make life harder for the people that drive them around. Make them pretend they're too stupid to know a man or woman when they see one. Progressive regressivism strikes again. The Great Dumbing-down continues.
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Re: NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronouns
« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2019, 10:52:49 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on December 14, 2019, 05:56:30 AM
I thought NYC taxi drivers had one pronoun for all passengers...

Where you going, ahole?


It used to be "youse," but more and more NYC cab drivers today are Muslim immigrants who barely speak English. I don't understand the preoccupation with politically correct pronouns when the only one I have ever heard used by a cabbie in any city is some variant (depending on the cabbie's accent) of "you."
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Re: NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronouns
« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2019, 12:20:18 PM »
Have there been any surveys to determine how many people in this country know what a pronoun is? I haz doubts.
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Re: NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronouns
« Reply #12 on: December 15, 2019, 06:14:01 PM »
Quote from: fistful on December 15, 2019, 12:20:18 PM
Have there been any surveys to determine how many people in this country know what a pronoun is? I haz doubts.

Really? C'mon, just about everybody knows that a pronoun is someone who is in favor of nouns, and an antinoun is someone who doesn't like nouns.

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Re: NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronouns
« Reply #13 on: December 15, 2019, 06:30:24 PM »
The second-person pronoun is "you" (or in N.Y., maybe "youse")  It is gender neutral.  That's all the pronoun you need when talking to someone.  First person pronouns are also gender-neutral: I, me, we, etc.  Gendered pronouns are when you are talking *about* someone. (third-person)  Why would a cabbie ever need to know that?

[someone else here, I *think* on this site, brought this up a few weeks ago.  It's why the whole preferred pronoun thing is stupid.  The subject of a 3rd person pronoun is generally not present]
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Re: NYC Taxi Drivers Have to Ask About Preferred Pronouns
« Reply #14 on: December 16, 2019, 06:51:28 PM »
We'll end up having to ban language. Where is that old Simon and Garfunkel album ...

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