THOUGHTCRIME AT WORK

We have been having DEI training at work, specific to the Alphabet Community. One might have done this in five minutes by instructing employees to treat their co-workers with respect, maybe giving a few simple examples of disrespect. But no, we have to dedicate about an entire workday to repudiating the various phobias and isms that poor pathetic LGBTQIA2S+ people (like myself) are forced to endure on a daily basis apparently, with suitably condemnatory rhetoric employed. To wit, there was a slideshow done up in comic book style, a series in which an 'offence' is depicted, and on the next slide follows an explanation of why it is considered an offence. No argument, no debate. You WILL use our pronouns. The last two panels in the presentation, shown below, were especially egregious, inspiring the Orwellian title above.

"This is of course a private thought..." This is presented as if it's a bothersome technicality. We'd really love to lay down the law on horrible people like this, quite possibly terminating their employment, but unfortunately we can't actually read minds. However we can strongly advise people not to have evil thoughts like these. INTENT IS IRRELEVENT appears on every other slide in this presentation. It has the same authoritarian cadence as RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.