Far-Right Extremists Keep Targeting Canadian Schools and Residential Areas. It’s Getting Out Of Control.
Far-Right Extremists Keep Targeting Canadian Schools and Residential Areas. It’s Getting Out Of Control.
Ottawa school board speaks out against “increasing trend” of extremists targeting schools after students told to “shelter-in-place”
Just when you thought extreme right wing rhetoric couldn't get any lower .... they start targeting children at their schools to hold their protests
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“The biggest names in the Canadian far-right have pivoted to this issue,” Canadian Anti-Hate Network Deputy Director Elizabeth Simons told PressProgress.
“Many of the networks and influencers involved in the anti-2SLGBTQ+ hate targeted at school boards and drag events got their start, or at least their notoriety, during the Freedom Convoy and the COVID conspiracy theory movement.”
The off-brand MAGA hats tell me everything I need to know about this group.
A large portion, if not all of these people were just bitching about people (the government) telling them what to do with their bodies, and here they are doing the EXACT same thing to school aged kids.
And the irony is completely lost on them.
The trans flag is literally one of inclusion and equality for all, and yet they protest it too. At what point, while you're lying in bed after a hard day of 'protecting kids from pedophiles' do you go 'yeah, I'm so glad I'm actively viewing others as subhuman?'
Large, well-funded organizations
Never heard of these orgs but this sound like they're funded by foreign entities trying to destabilize our democracy. All theoretical of course.
Shouldn't the government prevent this kind of funding? Or at least investigate it? This seems unlikely that they would be funded locally.
You don't have to look outside the country in order to find organizations, institutions and corporations that want to break down democracy.
Big business, corporations and the wealthy elite are all about conservative ideals, wealth at all costs, fighting social supports, and creating a supposed world of the 'strongest surviving better than the weakest'.
What they actually support is fascists ideas that are undemocratic because people's complaints and needs just get in the way of ever increasing profits, and no one ever addresses the fact that their wealth and control is based on the exploitation of the poor.
Uncontrolled and infinite wealth is created through undemocratic means ... and to me, that is the root of where all this influence comes from.
We must protect the children by terrorizing the children!
Jokes aside,
Anti-2SLGBTQIA+ groups, livestreamers and right-wing media personalities descended on the residential neighbourhood last week
I think the number of people winding this sort of stuff up as an opportunity to get their name out there and turn their bigotry into a career in right wing media shouldn't be underestimated.
Lowest common denominators .... internet personalities continually keep circling the drain looking for the lowest hanging fruit to gain a minute of fame.
School
Residential
Yeah we know where they want to take this.
Not quite relevant to the article, but I just noticed the 2S is being put at the front of the acronym! I quite like it.
I'm saying the same thing I've been saying for years. We need a more simple replacement for LGBT if we want to be more inclusive. If there's anything that fails to gain public support, it's things that change or become more complicated.
Because 2SLGBTQIAP+ is a mouthful.
Always loved that word 'Two Spirit' ... even as a Native person is still amazes me every time I read it.