grte @ grte @lemmy.ca

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Jewish people aren't collectively responsible for the actions of this group.

I came across this interesting article when I was doing some prior research on another one of these "charities" which are entirely about political advocacy.

When Trudeau changed the ITA in late 2018 to allow charities to spend 100% of their resources on public policy dialogue and development activities (PPDDA) it means that charities, both “left”, “right” and “centre” registered charities, can spend 100% of their resources on PPDDAs! Yes not 10%, 20% or 49% but 100%. Yes that means that a registered charity does not actually have to do any charitable work – the Liberals have just redefined certain political activities as being charitable. PPDDA is similar to non-partisan political activities under the old rules. Charities are still not allowed to support or oppose a candidate or political party.

So prior to 2018 charities were required to do some amount of actual charitable work, while this change in 2018 opened the door for charity organizations whose work is 100% political action. It seems like it would be easy enough to change that back.

Check which community you are posting this to.

The thing is that this is actually not a vague situation. No one is arguing that parents aren't able to teach their kids right from wrong. The issue is when the parents' values come into conflict with the child's own inherent right to express themselves as one of the protected classes specifically outlined in section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Most topically along sex/gender lines, but also many others.

Thankfully being an asshole is not a protected class so we are free to teach people to not be that.

This is what I'm getting at, though. If the interviewee didn't fit the checklist of stereotypes Fox News was looking for, there wouldn't have been an interview aired. It was a hit piece. Fox News went looking for a way to run a segment discrediting a movement, and found one.

Finish the thought.

. But that doesn’t give them the right to override their children’s own rights under the Charter, notably their children’s rights to life and security of the person.

Parents have the right to teach their values not as a product of being parents, but as a result of their individual rights to freedom of expression. What they don't have is a right to enforce those values on their child if their child rejects them.

It was a Fox News interview. If the person who did the interview came off well they wouldn't have bothered airing it. Hell, if the person they interviewed didn't come off the way they did they wouldn't have bothered interviewing them.

Not these ones specifically but that's why I said, "these issues." The way they run their app store and their stance on sideloading is all coming from the same anti-competitive strategy.

I hear you but Apple's stance on these issues also stops something like an F-droid Iphone equivalent.

No, I made a specific bet that your cult's attendance collapsed by 40% and you countered with a very specific claim that it in fact had quadrupled. You've already accepted that this is something that can be counted.

So all this back-pedalling now just makes me assume you are a lying bser. I mean, I did previously but now I know it, I suppose.

You put a number on it. You said a 400% increase since 1990. That's a very specific claim.

You didn't make it up, did you?

Okay, I looked outside. There's trees, snow, and a mountain. Do you have any proof that whatever cult you're a member of has grown by 400% since 1990?

Okay, I'll bet harder. Prove me wrong.

Yeah, I bet.

I bet your church's attendance is down by 40% since 1990.

Yeah, whatever. Your faith is dying. Good riddance.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2020-08-11/religion-giving-god (archive)

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/06/organized-religion-decline-agnostic-atheist-nonreligious

Those Gen Z teens will look more like the Gen Z adults when they themselves become adults. They are being influenced by their parents. But religiosity has been and is continuing to collapse, basically everywhere. :)

Exactly. Quebec law is not the USA's business. American owned businesses understood they would be subject to Canadian law when they set up shop here.

I mean, in this case it's, "Mind your business." Quebec's language laws are not the USA's concern.