"We are so proud to partner with Oreo on this campaign and grateful for their support for our work," Mara Keisling, executive director for the National Center for Transgender Equality, told Newsweek. In reality, though, Oreo partnered with the National Center for Transgender Equality-a completely different organization with the same initials. "Assisting with these "pronoun packs" only makes publicly obvious what has been true about NCTE for decades."
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"NCTE is in fact largely a political organization, not a professional organization, at this point," she wrote.
"While it sounds benign, this massive organization that affects millions of teachers all over the country-and helped write Common Core-has been politically far leftist for decades." Pullman added that NCTE, which said was the "National Council of Teachers of English," served only "to degrade instruction with politicization and gobbledygook." She also claimed the cookie-maker was trying to have it both ways by only releasing the packs at Pride: "It wants to get all the cred from LGBT politics without alerting the majority of their customers, who probably won't see their Facebook post and or this offensive product in any store to tip them off." On The Federalist, executive editor Joy Pullman wrote that Oreo "made clear they're taking sides in the culture war against half of America." The limited-edition Oreo packs encourage snackers to "share your pronouns with Pride." Nabisco "After decades of being a customer, we've bought our last package of Oreos," added another. Not all the reactions were positive, though: "And this is why I'm glad that my diet doesn't allow your cookies," one person tweeted. Normalizing asking what a person's preferred pronouns are matters. "These are beautiful," wrote one fan on Facebook, "and I'd purchase one in every design and hand them out to the people in my life who would appreciate these." In addition Oreo-cookie pins that read "Ask Me My Pronouns" were given away on Sunday.Įven though the Pronoun Packs were only available at the PrideFest street fair, and not sold in stores, they garnered a fair amount of attention online. Three different packs-"she/her," "he/him," and "they/them"-had pronouns written on the cookies themselves, with blue, pink and purple packaging reminiscent of the transgender flag. In partnership with NCTE, weâre giving away special edition Pronoun Packs and encouraging everybody to share their pronouns with #Pride today and every day. Judges, he said who support gay rights should be simply be removed, he said.Ĭarson told CNN’s Chris Cuomo in March that he believes homosexuality is “absolutely” a choice, because “a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they’re gay.Weâre proud to celebrate inclusivity for all gender identities and expressions. Earlier this year he told a radio program that congress and the president should promote removal of pro-gay marriage judges by initiating ballot initiatives. This is how they frighten people and get people to shut up.”Ĭarson said that people who accuse other people of being homophobic on the same-sex marriage issue are “destroying the nation.”īut his views are much more extreme on this point. This is one of the myths that the left perpetuates on our society.
“There is no reason that you can’t be perfectly fair to the gay community. “This is one of the myths that the left perpetrates on our society … the fact of the matter is, we the American people are not each other’s enemies,” he said. “I also believe that marriage is between one man and one woman.” I believe that our Constitution protects everybody,” Carson explained.
“Well obviously you don’t understand my views on homosexuality. The current leader of the Republican pack had this to say about gay marriage during tonight’s debate: