Poetic Justice<\/a>\u00a0is an advice column that offers better advice to submissions at other publications whose advice has failed the reader.<\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times is out with a new advice column by far-left identity and culture critic Roxane Gay. On Sunday, Gay\u2019s latest piece dished out advice<\/a> on celebrating \u201c Pride Month<\/a>\u201d by way of demanding corporate privilege dollars and proper pronoun policing.<\/p>\n

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The first submission of Gay\u2019s Sunday entry featured a reader who solicited advice on how to handle parade pay at an unnamed workplace:<\/p>\n
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At my place of work, we typically have a presence at local festivals and parades. We have a team that does outreach events as part of its work. Employees on the team are paid to set up a table, talk about our business and sign people up for our membership program.<\/p>\n
For some events, there is additional interest, so staff volunteer to join paid staff. One of these events is the local Pride parade. Many workers at my company identify as L.G.B.T.Q.+, so we typically bring a large banner and march together as a large group.<\/p>\n
In planning out participation for this year\u2019s event, a member of our company\u2019s L.G.B.T.Q.+ affinity group emailed the entire group (approximately 30 people), the vice president, and the director of diversity, equity, and inclusion demanding that all participants in the parade get paid for marching. Is it appropriate to pay people to march in the Pride parade?<\/p>\n
\u2014 Anonymous<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Gay counseled the reader to seek compensation for \u201cemployer-mandated tasks.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cIt sounds like your company is doing just that,\u201d Gay wrote. \u201cIf employees are required to participate in the Pride parade, they should be paid for that time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seems reasonable. Except nothing in the reader\u2019s submission included anything about the local pride parade being a corporate-mandated event. Although, given the vitriol of far-left social activism today, it\u2019s not inconceivable that refusal to participate in such an activity would result in some sort of discipline. <\/p>\n
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\u201cIt would be incredibly meaningful to try something different and support queer employees and allies with compensation for attending Pride, especially now,\u201d Gay wrote. \u201cInstead of thinking about all the objections, consider why this might be a great idea.\u201d<\/p>\n
Americans might be better off considering whether \u201cPride Month\u201d remains all that necessary in the first place. The month-long celebration no longer has anything to do with gay tolerance and everything to do with far-left activism. The reader\u2019s employer isn\u2019t engaged in virtuous activism as much as it is a campaign or corporate coercion to implement far-left social change.<\/p>\n
Gay Mischaracterizes The \u2018Minority\u2019 <\/h2>\n
In another entry for Sunday\u2019s column, Gay encourages a reader to take a stand against red state laws that protect children from transgender ideology. <\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what the reader wrote:<\/p>\n
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I am a queer employee at a large educational technology company that serves the K-to-12 market. Several customers in Florida, Texas and other states contact our support line regularly to ask for help to bypass all L.G.B.T.Q.+ content. My company has not, and I fear will not, take a stand on the anti-trans and \u2018don\u2019t say gay\u2019 legislation spreading like wildfire. Several colleagues have asked what the company will do or say about all of this, and we haven\u2019t been given a clear answer. Worse, the answers we are given often feel like political doublespeak. I am considering leaving the company after a career spanning over two decades. Do you think I should look at this differently? <\/p>\n
\u2014 Anonymous<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u201cGiven the challenges the L.G.B.T.Q. community is facing right now, you are looking at this in exactly the right way,\u201d Gay answered. \u201cIf we don\u2019t take unequivocal stands right now, we will lose more ground than we already have.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gay goes on to admonish the \u201cdisgraceful\u201d and \u201cterrible precedent that allows a very vocal minority to dictate everything from curriculum to health care.\u201d<\/p>\n
But who is really the \u201cvery vocal minority?\u201d A cascade of recent polling shows it\u2019s not Republicans. It\u2019s Gay and the reader.<\/p>\n
Americans overwhelmingly oppose<\/a> the rapid proliferation of transgender ideology. According to a Gallup poll out last week, 69 percent of adults surveyed said athletic competition should be based on biological sex. Another 55 percent called it \u201cmorally wrong\u201d to attempt a gender transition, a number up from 51 percent in 2021. <\/p>\n
The numbers corroborate another survey<\/a> from Gallup this month revealing increasing support for social conservatism. The number of Americans who identify as socially conservative has reached a decade high, with 38 percent of respondents reporting to be \u201cvery conservative\/conservative\u201d compared to 29 percent who claimed they were \u201cvery liberal\/liberal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even the Washington Post conceded<\/a> in May that \u201cmost Americans support anti-trans policies favored by GOP, poll shows,\u201d\u00a0based on results of the paper\u2019s own survey.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost Americans don\u2019t believe it\u2019s even possible to be a gender that differs from that assigned at birth,\u201d the Post reported. \u201cA 57 percent majority of adults said a person\u2019s gender is determined from the start, with 43 percent saying it can differ.\u201d<\/p>\n
But back to Gay\u2019s point, it\u2019s not Republicans who need to be reined in as the \u201cvery vocal minority.\u201d It\u2019s the radical activists demanding children who can\u2019t even pick their clothes out to be given the unilateral authority to chop off their own genitalia. In California, parents who don\u2019t enable the gender fantasies of their children can be stripped<\/a> of guardianship and labeled as abusers.<\/p>\n
As for the reader, if they wanted to be a professional activist, they should have picked another line of work.<\/p>\n
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Gay Mischaracterizes The \u2018Minority\u2019 <\/h2>\nIn another entry for Sunday\u2019s column, Gay encourages a reader to take a stand against red state laws that protect children from transgender ideology. <\/p>\nHere\u2019s what the reader wrote:<\/p>\n