I was going to bring that up but you beat me to it. We weren't demanding that everyone say Merry Christmas or trying to force people to say it by law or policy.
It's a bit odd to see historical revisionism of days you were alive and can recall....isn't it? The closest thing that I can think of to "speech tyranny" that one could argue Christians were engaging in was wayyy back under Obama when gay marriage was decided upon by the SCOTUS and some Christians wanted their marriages to be called marriages....and the legal term for a gay marriage to be called a civil union.
It's not exactly the same sort of demand that trans activists make regarding pronouns....but it was an attempt at using a different term, legally, for gay marriages. I can recall that on that particular and brief issue...I was still on the side of free speech and equality (though legal terminology isn't really much of a free speech issue) and argued that gay marriage should legally be called marriage if indeed they were being granted all the same legal rights ad any other couple in a legally recognized marriage. This, of course, wasn't a demand upon the gay married couple and how they refer to themselves in their everyday lives....it was strictly a dispute over the appropriate legal term.
Nowadays, that dispute seems rather quaint and whimsical compared to the people who not only believe that they are making reasonable demands by insisting upon the control of names, and pronouns, and not merely on some legal certificate but from the mouths of everyone around them, every day, at all times....a demand so blatantly ridiculous that if I hadn't believed that they were suffering a mental illness before the concepts of "preferred pronouns" and "deadnames".....I almost certainly would be convinced this were mental illness
Even the people who genuinely believe it is both appropriate and polite to concede to demands if pronouns.....we're they to meet someone on the street who demands they be referred to as the "queen of England", they would ignore said person and move along.
And the queen of England is more of a social construct than merely a woman is.
t was that some places gad created policies to force their employees to say Happy Holidays instead of .Terry Christmas by threat of disciplinary actions. Removing free speech. Hmm.. sounds kind of familiar. The current iteration is quite a bit more prevalent and year around.
Historical revisionist propaganda is pretty central to their new ideology. How many have mentioned the 3/5ths compromise as an example of systemic racism baked into our constitution despite not understanding who supported the compromise and why?
Their new ideology ascribed tenets first....then seeks validation of those tenets afterwards....while rejecting any evidence contrary to those tenets.
