Your Canada Day Rulebook: It's okay to promote wife-beating & condone the execution of gay people, but if you fly the old Red Ensign you're a racist and a hater.
Your Canada Day Rulebook: It's okay to promote wife-beating & condone the execution of gay people, but if you fly the old Red Ensign you're a racist and a hater.
A weird new kind of crowd control is taking shape. A hate-preacher jamboree we're not supposed to notice comes to Toronto. Bonus: A special guest essay on The End of Pride.
Jul 2, 2022·edited Jul 2, 2022Liked by Terry Glavin
What an incredible socially bullying and rude, damaging to many, narcissistic movement the LGB….. activist community has become. No wonder there is growing pushback. Please just get out of others’ faces and live their lives like everyone else. We have had gay neighbours for over fifteen years in two different locations and a gay family member. All would be embarrassed to cavort in one of these parades or even to attend.
Wonderful. We are in such trouble with the media sleeping at the switch. People really need to read Irresistible Damage by Abigail Shier. Queer identites are being pushed onto vulnerable youth. I have no hate in my heart, but when school changes your name snd pronouns without telling parents (current policy in Ontario schools), we need media to do its job.
Nuance, it's a wonderful thing. Nice to hear from rational voices like Fred Letwin (whom I'd never heard of until now). I would be remiss to mention that protesting against mandatory vaccinations, with a therapeutic that doesn't prevent infection, transmission, illness or death does not equate to insurrectionism.
Terry, I took a look at the anti-racism guidebook. IMO you have overflown the flag issue as the context is clear on how it is used. I also looked at the use of "conservative" and again the context of being more vulnerable to alt-right groups is clear (I would have never capitalized conservative to make it a more generic point. But certainly the PPC and the PP leadership campaign are aimed in part at attracting those groups. As to the "snitch" line language that you raise concerns about, hard one to finesse. I also don't like them in principle but on the other hand, do we want students and staff to remain silent? There is of course a real risk that some may report stuff that shouldn't be reported, and that institutions may over-react (enough examples out there), so it is not easy to find the balance between silence/complicity and reporting incidents.
OMG! Two very powerful articles. I really appreciate the two of you bringing these topics to our attention. I just happened to read retired Cdn Professor Tom Flanigan's article on the British web site UnHerd re how the "indigenous industry is thriving off fake news", thanks to the clout the New York Times has.
For all the money spent on reporting on our Indigenous and LGBTQ+++++++ issues, I shake my head that we still can't provide all of our Indigenous communities with potable water. How much farther are we going to sink before we wake up?
Nice work you two. Voices of sanity in a world of howling absurdities
What an incredible socially bullying and rude, damaging to many, narcissistic movement the LGB….. activist community has become. No wonder there is growing pushback. Please just get out of others’ faces and live their lives like everyone else. We have had gay neighbours for over fifteen years in two different locations and a gay family member. All would be embarrassed to cavort in one of these parades or even to attend.
Wonderful. We are in such trouble with the media sleeping at the switch. People really need to read Irresistible Damage by Abigail Shier. Queer identites are being pushed onto vulnerable youth. I have no hate in my heart, but when school changes your name snd pronouns without telling parents (current policy in Ontario schools), we need media to do its job.
Nuance, it's a wonderful thing. Nice to hear from rational voices like Fred Letwin (whom I'd never heard of until now). I would be remiss to mention that protesting against mandatory vaccinations, with a therapeutic that doesn't prevent infection, transmission, illness or death does not equate to insurrectionism.
Terry, I took a look at the anti-racism guidebook. IMO you have overflown the flag issue as the context is clear on how it is used. I also looked at the use of "conservative" and again the context of being more vulnerable to alt-right groups is clear (I would have never capitalized conservative to make it a more generic point. But certainly the PPC and the PP leadership campaign are aimed in part at attracting those groups. As to the "snitch" line language that you raise concerns about, hard one to finesse. I also don't like them in principle but on the other hand, do we want students and staff to remain silent? There is of course a real risk that some may report stuff that shouldn't be reported, and that institutions may over-react (enough examples out there), so it is not easy to find the balance between silence/complicity and reporting incidents.
OMG! Two very powerful articles. I really appreciate the two of you bringing these topics to our attention. I just happened to read retired Cdn Professor Tom Flanigan's article on the British web site UnHerd re how the "indigenous industry is thriving off fake news", thanks to the clout the New York Times has.
https://unherd.com/2022/06/the-truth-about-canadas-indian-graves/
For all the money spent on reporting on our Indigenous and LGBTQ+++++++ issues, I shake my head that we still can't provide all of our Indigenous communities with potable water. How much farther are we going to sink before we wake up?