Biden’s Dept. Of Education Investigating Chris Rufo For “Misgendering” Former New College DEI Director
The former DEI head at New College in Florida goes by ‘ze/zir.’ Is ‘mispronouning’ a crime now?
Chris Rufo has been front and center in pushing back against the woke insanity that has swept our nation in recent years. So much so that Florida governor Ron DeSantis appointed him, along with other conservatives, to root out woke in all its racist ‘antiracist’ and divisive, destructive CRT forms at New College in Florida.
In this capacity, Rufo apparently engaged in wrong think in the form of malicious pronouning. Or something.
BREAKING: President Biden's Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into New Collge of Florida, following a complaint that, in part, alleged that I "misgendered" the college's former DEI director, who uses "ze/zir" pseudo-pronouns. This is madness. pic.twitter.com/bqhp5dGi4j
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 8, 2023
The complainants also alleged that defunding the DEI department and the Gender Studies Program constitutes a violation of civil rights law. This is an outrageous attempt to subvert democratic governance and entrench left-wing ideological power under the guise of civil rights. pic.twitter.com/zVslJSHv7a
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 8, 2023
The Biden administration’s Department of Education opened an investigation into the New College of Florida after it received a complaint last month alleging that the school’s board has created a “hostile” environment for transgender and disabled students and staff.
The complaint, received by the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights on Aug. 24, names Board of Trustees member Christopher Rufo, who was appointed to the New College’s board by DeSantis in January.
It alleges that Rufo, who is also a Manhattan Institute fellow, targeted specific students, parents, and staff with “sexist and transphobic ridicule.”
In one incident, the right-wing activist allegedly “mocked and misgendered” the director of New College’s Office of Outreach and Inclusive Excellence (OOIE), Yoleidy Rosario-Hernandez, after “ze was summarily fired,” according to a copy of the complaint shared by Rufo on his Substack.
. . . . In a March post to X, formerly known as Twitter, Rufo shared that his colleague had a preferred pronoun before referring to zir “her” and “she” in the next sentence.
“New College of Florida has fired its former DEI director, Yoleidy Rosario-Hernandez (“ze/zir”), after abolishing her department,” Rufo wrote.
Here’s the supposedly offensive (criminal?!) tweet:
New College of Florida has fired its former DEI director, Yoleidy Rosario-Hernandez ("ze/zir"), after abolishing her department. Rosario-Hernandez lashed out at me in the Washington Post, but I wish her well and hope she uses the opportunity to develop useful skills. pic.twitter.com/qd6fdr7OyV
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 11, 2023
Rufo refuses to bend to the Biden thought police, however.
Left-wing activists want to use civil rights law to force everyone to falsify reality and use absurd, ideologically loaded "neo-pronouns."
I will never bend. I will never bow. I will never submit to the Biden Administration's pronoun police. pic.twitter.com/x2Wow56ykg
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 10, 2023
Needless to say, people have thoughts.
They really are trying to make it illegal for the right to exercise political power. It’s a step beyond “manipulating procedural outcomes,” to “everything is against the law but the law only applies to our enemies.” https://t.co/x1GTfo9ES4
— Lomez (@L0m3z) September 10, 2023
How can any of this survive the 1A?
— Fauxmaha (@J3ffMiller) September 9, 2023
This is the issue, precisely. There is a growing tyranny to force people to lie about the very foundation of reality.
Do not submit.@11thBlog https://t.co/RQ3YTBHlVG— Jennifer Bilek (@bjportraits) September 10, 2023
No matter how they package this, you are being investigated by the federal government for *not using certain words.* On so many fronts, if this succeeds everything this country stands for, and all that every civil rights movement fought for, is lost.
— Tammy Bruce (@HeyTammyBruce) September 10, 2023
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Oh for fucks sakes 🙄 These people need to grow up.
They also need a good bitch slap 👋
How dare you assume the gender and species of the target of said desperately needed slapping!!
I had no idea that Jimmuh Cawtuh’s gift to the teacher unions had investigative powers.
They don’t.
“Civil Rights” is the federal version of “Disorderly Conduct”.
Can mean whatever you want and makes a good excuse when the state needs to arrest someone in a pinch but can’t find a real law to apply.
Precisely. Since when do educrats have ‘investigative powers’??
I guess since leftist break all the rules, make up everything, and do whatever the h3ll they want in persecuting their enemies.
Rightists: But, but MuH pRiNcIpLeS!!
What do you call it when universities hold “hearings” to punish students for sexual misconduct, at which neither due process nor the rules of evidence apply?
Impersonating a court.
Just junk the Constitution and all laws in favor of “We, the government, own you and can do to you as we please.”
If the use of the improper pronoun usage occurred after the person’s termination, how did that create a hostile work environment?
Asking hard questions again!
“Ask me no questions
I tell you no lies”
Lynyrd Skynyrd told us that if you ask stupid questions you should expect lies.
Especially when Rufo already gave zir ‘three steps towards the door’.
But if you want to talk fishin’, well I guess that’ll be OK.
When one is a protected minority, it doesn’t matter.
Stop that. Logic has no place in the Intersectional Grievance Olympics
It looks like an opportunity to have fun, to me.
We need to extract something from this. A consent decree from the Dept. of Ed. disbanding the OCR would be about the only useful thing I can see. There’s already a DOJ to enforce civil rights so there is no need for an extra body within Dept. of Ed. (which should not exist anyway) to do it.
Ok so the feds will wage lawfare via investigations etc etc ad infinitum.
Instead of wasting time and resources on their mudwrestling that gets you nowhere, why not relocate to a locale that would welcome you — e.g., there’s got to be a place that would welcome NEW COLLEGE in nearby Bahamas or Puerto Rico or ???
Bahamas is UK. PR is US and therefore presumably the Dept. of Ed. can extend its communist tentacles there. Stand and fight in Florida, which is a less woke place now anyway.
If anything can convince the next Rep. president to disband the OCR or maybe the whole Dept. of Ed., it would be something like this.
Disbanding the D of Ed will happen at the same time we disband NPR, CPB, PBS, Amtrak, and the National Endowment for the Arts. That’s been promised since the Reagan Administration.
If the FJoeBiden admin keeps pushing, Russia will disband all of them in under one hour. We are at the same point in history as the last days of the Roman Empire where the people wanted to be saved by the barbarians. “Draining the Swamp” could be by tidal wave or 100 million degrees F.
Well, Vivek has said all he will abolish all of them. Can he do it? IDK, but he is the only one who has said it
More to the point, moving to a Commonwealth venue may get a based administrator in hot water even faster, as they are even further along the decline than we are.
“Canada’s “conversion therapy” ban requires parents, pastors, counselors, friends, and others to affirm a person’s gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, or face jail or prison time.”
This is exactly the issue that catapulted Jordan Peterson to global fame.
No. We should not abandon our Red State institutions. Instead we should do exactly what is going on at New College of Florida; push back and refuse to budge.
Somewhere in A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (Quirk Greenbaum Leech and Svartvik) is the statement that pronouns, like prepositions, are a closed class. You don’t keep finding new ones.
This is all nothing more than enabling people to live in a destructive fantasy world by criminalizing those who dare to tell them that their world is a fantasy. In essence, they are making sanity illegal.
” They are making sanity illegal”
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn would have agreed with you. None of what we are seeing is new.
Will they next declare that all conservatives or populists are “Former Persons”?
Maybe erased persons.
The Federal Leviathan means to exert its power anywhere and everywhere no matter how large or trivial the challenge to it. This means lawfare and legal challenge, but ultimately it is going to mean physical force and eventual violence from many quarters met by the same from other corners.
It;s called “Zero Tolerance” and it’s in play today.
There they go again, inventing words out of thin air.
These clumsy, newfangled noun stand-ins seem more like amateur-nouns.
Or, today, college nouns, not pro.
Took me two readings to notice what you did there.
These claims are so ridiculous.
Freedom of speech, I’ll call you a turnip if I choose to.
Rufo should expect a 5:00 a.m. armed FBI-IRS raid at his residence soon.
Body bag not optional.
“The First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech protects us from censorship of what we want to say, but we don’t often think about how the First Amendment also protects us from being compelled to say something we don’t want to say”
“One recent manifestation of compelled speech has been the mandatory use of pronouns contrary to someone’s biological sex, especially in education. Public school boards and universities are increasingly adopting policies that force teachers, professors, other education officials, and even students to use pronouns that are inconsistent with the student’s sex if the student requests this—even if this violates the speaker’s deeply held religious or personal convictions about the nature of gender and sexuality”
https://adflegal.org/article/dangers-compelled-speech
https://adflegal.org/article/court-rules-professor-cant-be-forced-endorse-ideology-against-his-beliefs
https://adfmedia.org/case/kluge-v-brownsburg-community-school-corporation
“…Yoleidy Rosario-Hernandez (“ze/zir”), after abolishing her department,”
Why in the world did he bother to include the faux “pronouns” at all? Seems sort of stupid to include “words” which do not exist in the English language while writing the statement.
To illustrate her narcissistic foolishness.
It’s like referring in print to Joshua Norton as “Emperor.”
The solution is to sue the bastards for violating Rufo’s first amendment rights, and to specify that this is so clearly violative that there is no qualified immunity and the officials are personally liable. Then put a lien on their houses if you can. Pour encourager les autres, so to speak.
“Office of Outreach and Inclusive Excellence (OOIE)”
OOIE? Really? OOIE?!?
https://youtu.be/i5tIHtbctFQ
In other words, he used the correct pronoun to describe a confused lunatic…
My only concern is, does the department of education have attack helicoptors and grenade launchers?
So it’s evidently not enough that these nut cases invent their own vocabulary to help them act out their delusions. We have to buy into the nonsense, too, so they don’t feel hurt or feel obliged to kill themsleves. Maniacs inhabiting Federal and academic bureaucracies are still maniacs.
…themselves
Congress should investigate the Department of Education for misappropriation of funds for investigating non-crimes.