Anti-LGBTQ+ ‘Million Man Marches’ Are Being Held Across Canada. Who is Behind Them and What Are They Really About?
Anti-LGBTQ+ ‘Million Man Marches’ Are Being Held Across Canada. Who is Behind Them and What Are They Really About?
Everything you need to know about the ‘one million march for children’ to stop the ‘indoctrination of children in public schools’
Exactly this also for intrusion into cryptography and end to end encrypted communication
They've told you one thing: they're hiding behind children.
It's time people started learning about the groups that create such events. This is all funded by the Tanton network, and they ship in professional protestors to participate, same as in antichoice marches, where they fly them in from the US.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2015/john-tantons-network
Haha, I thought it was just the lefties being paid by Soros to protest
“For the children” “to restore parental rights” ahh, right so you mean AGAINST the children. Easy mistake to make.
I doubt they will have much of an impact at all. That said, I hope that most Canadians are repulsed by this kind of behavior and vote against it.
(Because there are some iffy sources on lemmy, I tend to look up their reputability online. Here's this one:
If you think these people don't have any impact, you've not been paying attention to your neighbours to the south (or to us over the pond, or to anywhere where trans and other queer people are being targeted, really)
I meant these marchers, which seem disorganized and relatively few people. The overall trend, rightwing extremism, is a worldwide problem whose flames were fanned by Russia and China. The American brand of right wing BS is particularly destructive and infectious though. I know it, I moved from a place getting infected by it to a place where people like me (bi) are safer.
UK seems to be on a similar path, unfortunately. Though it's a slightly different take on it.
I feel like I need to defend us a little: US is pretty well split between two extremes right now, and you mostly read about this in the 1/3 of states that are highly conservative.
Even in Florida, with all its faults, all its hatred, it’s corrupt government, it’s attacks on education ….. a buddy in mine living in a community with a high percentage of lgbt folk, says it really doesn’t affect them directly. I’d worry more about raising kids there
Million Man March? More like "Double Digit Dumbasses"
The way the poster reads it looks like this is the 1 millionth march of 4 children. Which is kind of hilarious.
It's all distraction. Keep attention to the things out of the corner of your eye.
Have to keep the people divided otherwise they will be too powerful
for children the children
There it is boys.
I thought Canada had hate speech laws?
Parliament just gave a standing ovation to a literal nazi. I don't think the government gives a shit about hate speech.
Same folks that want to give up our sovereignty to The States under Drumph.
Pretty sure most of the people will be related to each other.
How the f do these people get off saying straight people are oppressed. Besides being the vast majority, without straight people our species would die.. like, who is that dumb to believe this horseshit?
So instead of looking into a more common ground in these issues, we see libral in social media labelling any conservative as "hater" "idiots" and then wonder why conservative get elected.
I have never seen a normal conversation that address any of the conserns that parents and people who have conservative values would have.
Instead, if they are religious we see comments saying they will do anything for their imaginary friend, and if they are conservative, they don't know how to raise their kids, and the best is when talking about blocker thereby, comment will dismiss everything as being non harmful which doesn't make sense.
I am also amazed that people with concern or question cannot say much because of the hate speech laws that are vaguely defined. So you end up with people "force" to be quite and only able to have conversations with like minded or extremist people. This also force academics/lawyers/medically trained individual to not say anything.
I always wonder if this is a work of trolls who aimd at dividing the country similar to what happens in the US and UK.
Edit: cool to see some of the replies actually prove a point.
I have never seen a normal conversation that address any of the conserns that parents and people who have conservative values would have.
Because their concerns are delusional.
You can't have a "normal conversation" about kitty litter boxes being placed in schools for students who are furries. It never happened, but someone told them it did and now they're angry about it. Try to tell them it's not happening and they fell for a hoax and then they accuse you of being blind to the truth and hurting children.
Constructive discourse is impossible. All you can hope to do is limit their influence by appealing to people who have not already fallen for their fear mongering. Engaging directly is a trap.
Yeah, it's conservatives who are the real victims, good thing they have clowns like you to focus on the important issues and advocate for them!
common ground
Where is the common ground between 'trans people are people' and 'trans people are abominations that should be relegated to the backwash of society until we find a socially acceptable reason to kill them.'?
Whichever side of the fence we're on I think one thing we can agree are on is that you need to work on your spelling
I have never seen a normal conversation that address any of the conserns that parents and people who have conservative values would have.
When conservatives learn to present their arguments in a non-hyperbolic fashion that doesn't ignore science and reality, and to have an adult conversation about the merits of those arguments, and to be honest about what is motivating those arguments, then this complaint will hold some water.
if they are religious we see comments saying they will do anything for their imaginary friend
I mean, yeah, usually the religious people demonstrating have things saying "you will burn in hell" or similar. Thats not an argument at all, other than they doing it for their imaginary friend.
Dearest doorknob, where did you receive your education? Serious question.
Indeed, discussion between the left and right no longer seems possible. Both sides focus on the extremes. The far-right arguments and the far-left arguments instead of the centrist povs.
I think that any controversial point that people have different takes works like this... Vast majority of people, free of influence from their others, are centrist. A bell-curve of dividing opinions. Most people would either not care, or not find a big issue about it. Few will take it to the extremes. But over time in political discourse, we move from a bell curve of opinions to two very divisive sides.
Since the main topic is apparently too hot of a take, I'll take pineapple on a pizza for example (Perhaps I'm getting into even hotter waters). Free of external influence (i.e. memes), I think most people will eat it without much thought. Some might like it, some might not, and I doubt it's all that controversial--likely less than anchovies. If you don't like it, you just don't have to eat it.
But if one extreme said we must ban pineapples from all pizzas, and the other end of the extreme said we must put pineapple on all pizzas, we have a very different scenario. I myself enjoy Hawaiian pizza and find pineapples to be a fine topping. But I certainly don't want to eat only pineapple pizzas all the time. So, I'd look at both extremes and side with no pineapples ever. That seems better of the two options. I can no longer be a centrist because the idea of having only pineapple pizza seems horrible. But I don't really eat whole pizzas by myself, I eat it with others. And if others are such great lovers of pineapple pizza, I'd be influenced to side with the other extreme of always having pineapple due to peers.
I want to highlight that both of these extremes are authoritarian. One forces you to eat pineapple. The other forces you to not eat pineapple. Neither are true libertarian choices. They are forced viewpoints one forces on the other. That's what forces people to have such strong negative emotion towards it. No one wants to be forced into things. This is important and I'll come back to this later.
Just look at every other reply to the comment I'm replying to. They highlight how the extreme right is horrible. Yeah. They are. It seems there's no arguing with them. They seem to have extreme authoritarian views. How do you deal with them as a left leaning person? You can't. The ones that can deal with them, are not you, but the centrists or the non-extreme rights. You can only bring them to your side by shunning your own extreme left. Vice versa the other way around too for rights bringing in the left. You need to recognize extremism and learn to shun them. But we don't do that. We get into team mentality and think your side is right and the other is wrong. The more people think like that, the more divisive people get because they associate the extreme with the rest. Just because I want to eat pineapple pizza doesn't mean I want to force everyone to eat pineapple pizza.
Look at this article. It constantly highlights how some members of the organization are extreme leaning. Yes, I'm sure there are. It's a team game after all. But then we're intentionally ignoring the vast quantity of people who aren't.
The right is seeing authoritarian regime from the left as their children are now forced to learn about things they don't approve of. Whether or not you think learning of LGBT+ in school is right or wrong is what you will be fixated on, but it is entirely irrelevant. Whether or not I want pineapple on pizza is irrelevant. Problem is forced. Problem is whether or not I'm forced to eat pineapple pizza. This is why you get such push away, why the centrists find themselves having to side with one or the other. They're siding with the one they feel less repulsed to. Though people love to (mis)quote the paradox of tolerance and how they must intolerate the intolerant, they don't realize this is said on both sides of the spectrum. Both sides feel forced by the other to suppress them, and then we continue to speculate on what is the other side through the extreme responses. This is why both sides keep saying they're victims. This is why they both claim the other is a fascist. You might not be the extreme authoritarian so you probably think the argument is idiotic, bigotry, etc. because you brought a sensible argument. But some of the people on your team are. You probably don't realize they're behind you. But they're the face the other side sees.
Though I did bring the solution, I doubt it's a plausible one. I don't think any significant number of people in the moderate political climate is interested in doing so. As seen by number of downvotes. Frankly, I think we're fucked.
So, I’d look at both extremes and side with no pineapples ever.
We can't be friends anymore. Go die with all your anti-pineapplist friends!!
Anti-pinapplism is hate. Nearly every act of domestic toppings in Marinara history has been committed by Anti-pinapplists. Nearly every act of mushrooms, green peppers, onions, and even anchovies ever committed in Dipping Sauce history has been committed by Anti-pinapplists.
Teach your children why it is inappropriate to make friends with, keep relationships with or do business with Anti-pinapplists. Marginalize hate by marginalizing me. Wait wut?
Frankly, I think we’re fucked.
Sadly, I think you are probably right. The US and several other major democratic powers seem to be trying to find their own recipes for civil war.
I think you shouldn't speak until you work on your spelling, my God it's atrocious.
Who is behind them? Um... Conservatives. All of them.
Conservatism is hate. Nearly every act of domestic terrorism in North American history has been committed by conservatives. Nearly every act of racism, bigotry, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia and anti-semitism ever committed in our planet's history has been committed by conservatives.
Teach your children why it is inappropriate to make friends with, keep relationships with or do business with conservatives. Marginalize hate by marginalizing the hate group.
Wilhoit's law -
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Left leaving people believe that every human is worth the same - right leaning people draw lines and exclude people from that equal group.
The more often they draw the line against a part of the population most people aren't part of the more likely is it that they manage to convince one of those that it's actually worth it for them to agree with those divisions
I think we all wish that were the case.
Marginalize hate by becoming hate.
Teaching children to hate, especially dogmatic hate, is disgusting even when one's stance is morally correct. If a stance is just, then by teaching children ethics and critical thinking they will come to the correct conclusion on their own. When one uses the exact same playbook as the worst parts of the group they hate, they become the worst part of the group they represent.
Since some people don't seem to realize what a bigot actually is:
Edit: Phrasing, mostly replacing the word "you" with generic pronouns.
You are mistaken. I am not espousing "intolerance of those who differ". I am espousing intolerance of a group of deadly dangerous bigots who demonize anyone who is not in their group. Do not equivocate the haters and their victims who reject them. That is a tactic of the conservatives.
I hate nazis.
Do you?
Teaching children to hate? Where did that come from?
This is about teaching children how to recognize hate and avoid making hate part of their lives. It’s education and boundaries. Discretion isn’t hate.