A Denver Post columnist claimed he was fired from the paper after he said there are only two sexes in a column.
“The reason for my firing is over a difference in style,” Jon Caldara, a weekly columnist for the paper since 2016, said in a Facebook post. Caldara said his editor found his writing to be “too insensitive.”
“My column is not a soft voiced, sticky sweet NPR-styled piece which employs the language now mandated by the victim-centric, identity politics driven media,” he stated.
The columnist said the “last straw” was his “insistence that there are only two sexes and [his] frustration that to be inclusive of the transgendered (even that word isn’t allowed) we must lose our right to free speech.”
“But to force us to use inaccurate pronouns, to force us to teach our kids that there are more than two sexes, to call what is plainly a man in a dress, well, not a man in a dress violates our right of speech,” he added. “YOU are free to wear a dress, and quite sincerely, more power to you! That’s power over your own self. You are sovereign. And so am I. Which means YOU cannot choose my words. Our words are now chosen by the press, and our kids’ words are being mandated at school.”
Caldara’s last column for the publication ran Friday, and he railed against Democrats for trying to mandate education that says there are “more than two sexes.” He called the efforts by the lawmakers “Orwellian.”
“Plain talk that doesn’t conform to the newspeak law of ‘use only the words mandated by the perpetually offended.’ So, it is labeled as ‘mean spirited’ and banned. If conservatives and libertarians are granted a voice in the mainstream media, they must use the language of their ideological opponents. That is, they are not allowed to have their own voice,” he said in his Facebook post.
The Denver Post posted a notice Tuesday seeking out two new columnists who can write weekly or biweekly for the paper.
