Required? He said Required? I'm required to pay my taxes, follow the law, and come into work on time IF I don't want to get fired ( if I do that's a different matter). Calling a tranny their preferred pronoun isn't any of those. I've committed no crime, the most I could be ACCUSED OF is rudeness. Truly Canada is a cucked state, needs annexation.
Here's the bit for archival purposes:
Several interesting things to notice in this clip:
1.) He does the usual centrist shuffle of framing his view as the center/default and the rest as some extreme niche. He does this when he claims that in a religious school it would be ok to misgender but in a public school respecting the tranny is the priority. So the state religion should at least partially be transgenderism according to dev.
2.) He believes respecting the pronouns is the polite and good thing to do, meaning like a lot of people he frames at least some part of his morality around what seems nice and what is socially acceptable, because I don't see how else you can call affirming a delusion good.
3.) He says that he considered the reverse situation but when vee presents that case to him he "has to think about it" and starts backtracking/adding qualifiers. What's interesting about that is that it means he never actually considered the "principle" he claims to be basing this on, if he did he would have thought of this a while back and would have an answer ready. What happened here is that dev wanted to protect the trannies first and then mindbent himself into finding some way to make saying the pronouns into a principled centrist/liberal point. He even says that defending the trans person is his "instinct".
This is why he keeps bringing up and saying really dumb stuff like : swerving into a talk on public and religious schools / not being able to drink pepsi at the job if you work for coca-cola so pronouns are not compelled speech/ students having to trust teachers so that means teachers have to affirm everything the students say ect.
4.) In the end dev says that even calling people cis or saying cis people are oppressing trans people should be sanctioned in the workplace, he admits it would be unfairly enforced if this was brought in but doesn't comment further. Mentioning this because of my earlier post about libertarians being useless for this stuff. He knows the consequence of what he espouses would be a left-wing win but doesn't care because it's principled or something.
5.) Both of these guys and their stances are completely useless. For all the talk of rational observation and logical conclusions, years of "debating" and principle talk dev is now siding with the troons and Vee can't pin him or put forward a strong enough argument, and ends up more or less agreeing with Dev in the end. Keep in mind what we're talking about here is being forced to respect pronouns in the workplace under the threat of being fired. Both of these guys claimed to not have changed their positions since they started being politically active on yt but no-one in their right mind would have said this in 2014, and just some years back they all agreed with JP whos stance was no compelled speech ever.