Courtenay-Comox Conservative candidate drops out after social-media posts surface
Courtenay-Comox Conservative candidate drops out after social-media posts surface
Since-deleted posts by Damon Scrase, who was nominated in January, include a 2022 post calling some Pride parade participants “degenerates”
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Surprise surprise, a Conservative who's got a past full of hate.
Maybe we'll be saved by this upcoming generations desire to post everything including hateful content like this.
By the time they realize what it means, their true colors will be permanently recorded and we can pressure them out like this.
The only way you get by what this guy did is to have years of follow up history showing they've moved past it.
Narrator They haven't.
12 0 ReplyHopefully he does move past it by becoming a legitimate ally of his local lgbt groups
2 1 ReplyThat is always the hope.
An event like this can often be enough to reasses your values.
But the choice you make at this point is probably going to be a long standing, unlikely to change anytime soon one.
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The only way you get by what this guy did is to have years of follow up history showing they've moved past it.
Hard to have years of anything when he last did it a year ago.
2 1 ReplyWell then, let's check back in a decade
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That is conpletely true that there are Pride parade participants who are in fact degenerates.
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