San Diego, CA–Just in time for President’s Day, the City of San Diego is warning its employees that even mentioning the Founding Fathers could get them in trouble.
That’s one of many startling conclusions reached by a new manual the city has issued for written and oral communication by its employees. In a section on “Bias-Free Language,” the City instructs workers to eliminate from their vocabulary a number of words and phrases considered gender biased, including “the common man,” “manmade,” “man up” and many others. As one example, the guidelines note that “founding fathers” is also problematic and should be replaced with “founders.”
The city further urges employees preparing official reports to disregard or paraphrase research that contains such biased language.
In response, the Pacific Justice Institute sent a letter to Mayor Kevin Faulconer late Monday calling for the guidelines to be rescinded. In the letter, PJI attorney Matthew McReynolds notes that more than 1,500 Supreme Court and lower court decisions have directly invoked the Founding Fathers. The letter quotes several examples from landmark cases. Under the guidelines, legal staff are discouraged from quoting these decisions.
Brad Dacus, president of Pacific Justice Institute, noted, “At a time set aside to honor American icons to whom we owe our constitutional freedoms, it is offensive and indefensible that the City of San Diego is directing employees not to even mention the Founding Fathers. We are calling on the mayor to immediately retract these guidelines and reassure city employees that they will not be punished for being patriotic. We cannot allow this type of censorship and PC insanity to destroy our free speech.”
PJI is offering to represent, without charge, any city employees who are punished for their patriotic expression.
– See more at: http://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/pjis-letter-to-mayor-kevin-faulconer#sthash.S2jwpWJZ.dpuf
I am so sick of reading this BS, the stupidity gets deeper every day. Can we get this party started so we can remove these idiots from the gene pool.
This, obviously, has nothing to do with “bias” or offending anyone. It’s just another of the commies’ efforts to erase our history.
“Obama is the King. Before Obama was king, Obama’s father was King. That’s all you need to know about “founding fathers”.
Probably have to start calling them the “founding parental units.”
San Diego is basically an extension of Mexico now. All they have there are Mexicans so of course they will screw over the Founding Fathers. It doesn’t surprise me.