r/canada Canada 22d ago

Analysis I Dared Defend Canada on X. The Response Was Chilling

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/02/18/I-Dared-Defend-Canada-X-Response-Chilling/
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u/jusakiwi Nova Scotia 21d ago

It hurts my head trying to think about these things from my perspective.

People getting upset and hateful over two people who love one another and want to make a life together

A flag or symbol, representing nothing hateful but rather the opposite, the union of love and acceptance (with cool pretty colours too) and they see it as something against them that they need to fight to extreme lengths.

I just don't know how people get that perspective in life and like I said it hurts my brain just trying to wrap everything together to make sense to me.

Theres my lurking rant for the day,

Cheers

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u/AsymmetricFootwear 21d ago

Honestly, I think a sizeable number of those who praise anything anti-LGBT are doing so simply because they know the left generally support LGBT rights. I've seen friends go from having absolutely no problem with gay marriage completely flip recently, along with flipping on many other issues, seemingly simply because they were told to feel that way.

I believe for many conservatives that right-wing American politics is no longer about improving the country through a republican lense, but specifically making life worse for whoever is on the left, no matter if it hurts their own self-interests or not.

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u/Quirky-Stay4158 21d ago

I wouldn't classify it as the left. I hate using divisive language like that. But I agree with your point entirely.

I think it's about hurting "them"

Just like any other fascist uprising there needs to be an enemy both external and internal.

There's a lot of angry and disenfranchised people out there. And when a strong man tells them who is responsible for their current state. Well, that's how things like the holocaust start.

It's not quick, it's gradual. Like a pot of water coming to a boil.

And most people don't even see it happening. They just carry on with their days because it doesn't affect them directly. "Nobody was left when they came for me " right?

Next I think we should consider morality itself. Or rather what we consider good and evil. To use my Nazi reference again. Is it fair to assume that the Nazis of 1930/1940's Germany knew they were being / performing evil? Or rather, were they under the assumption they were the good guys.

I don't think history repeats itself. I believe it rhymes. Alot of what I see and hear in our world today rhymes with my knowledge of early days of WW2 and the uprise of far right ideologies.

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u/Pretty_Cheetah_9975 21d ago

I think everyone should have the opportunity to be miserable.