NYC "human rights commission"--out-of-control thugs

New York is run by Democrats, from school boards to the communist mayor.  And being Dems, they constantly try to out-do each other in setting up all manner of "commissions" to force hapless citizens to do as they demand--such as by forcing them to call biological men women, and vice-versa.  And to use female pronouns for men.

And by "forcing" I mean having the regulatory authority of being able to levy a huge fine on anyone who fails to do as they demand.

Naturally when most people hear this--like my liberal professor friend--they think this is hyperbole.  Just could NOT be true, cuz America, free speech and so on.  When I mention this to libs, they sneeringly dismiss this as "crazy right-wing conspiracy theories."  My professor friend says conservatives are simply "obsessing over the news."

And ya know what?  I tend to get pretty damned concerned when crappy Dems/liberals/"progressives" start demanding that people call men women, or anything similar.  Kinda prickly about "free speech."  So...back to New York:

The city set up a "human-rights commission."  New Yorkers were thrilled, cuz who isn't for something called "human rights," eh comrade?

Except the thuggish members of the commission, like assistant commissioner Sapna V. Raj, have decided tha anyone who fails to call trans-sexuals by the tranny's preferred pronoun is guilty of...wait for it...a "hate crime."  And the commission will take the hater to court, for a huge penalty.

In December of last year a lawyer with an outfit cunningly named the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)--which is actually a radical group that supports terrorists--saw a display in the window of a Prada store in New York City that featured two toy monkeys, one green and one red.

The green monkey wasn't a problem.  But the red monkey triggered Chinyere Ezie, the CCR lawyer, who used social media to declare that it was "blackface imagery"-- and thus a human-rights crime.

Of course Prada immediately apologized and removed the display.  Nevertheless the city's Commission on Human Rights sent a cease and desist letter to Prada, demanding that the company immediately stop displaying and selling the offensive toy.
 The commission issued a press release threatening that it had the authority to fine violators with civil penalties of up to $250,000 for willful and malicious violations of the law.

A government agency issuing an order to stop displaying an artistic product and threatening a huge fine is a blatant First Amendment violation, yet this abuse of power was applauded by NYC's virtue-signalling elites.

The commission also claims NYC ordinances allow the imprisonment anyone who impedes its activities.

Take a look at some of the things this thuggish "human rights commission" has done:

In 2014 the owner of a 25-seat restaurant posted an ad for an “experienced waitress."  The commission came down on the owner with full Nazi force.  Why?  Because he'd used the word “waitress” in his ad instead of “wait-person” or some similar butchery of the language.

The owner told the representative of the commission that he hadn’t done anything wrong and hung up, and in 2015 a city judge ruled he was guilty of "gender discrimination."  The final order was signed by commissioner Carmelyn P. Malalis, who has a B.A. in Women's Studies a seemingly boundless admiration for totalitarian regimes.

In another case the commission slapped a $10,000 fine on a restaurant owner who'd placed an ad for “waitresses” who could wear heels.

The commission also went after an Indian restaurant which had posted an ad for an "Indian waiter or waitress."  The commissioners were outraged!  "We cannot tolerate the owner of an Indian restaurant advertising for Indian staff!"  So they emailed an application using the name “George Harris.”  The commission determined that the email was opened, but the fictitious applicant didn't get a job offer--cuz the owner wanted authentic Indian servers, eh?

The restaurant went out of business, but the "human rights commission" kept pursuing the case, eventually assessing a fine four years later.  Commissioner -Nazi Carmelyn P Malalis declared that the owner's “failure to cooperate with the Bureau investigation...necessitates the imposition of civil penalties.”

The Indian restaurant and the jobs of all its employees had to be destroyed--because the Nazis on the so-called "human rights commission" unilaterally ruled that the restaurant owner could not be permitted to advertise for Indian servers.

Human rights?  No.  Bureaucratic thuggery.