• 0 Posts
  • 39 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 12th, 2023

help-circle








  • Roundcat@lemmy.catoMemes@lemmy.mlstop it Joe
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Oh so we’re applying the founding fathers owning slaves justification to queer persecution? Guess it’s okay when everyone else is doing it.

    Then again nevermind. I’m used to having our history downplayed by conservatives and reactionaries, including the ones that cosplay in red.







  • It still was a scary situation to me, and reminded me a lot of the Jan 6 insurrection. It wasn’t just Ottawa either that was terrorized though. There were smaller convoys that terrorized towns in Alberta, and there were several border crossings that were blocked by truckers.

    Canada may be a more tolerant place than America, but it still faces a lot of the same vulnerabilities that we face here from being overtaken by a militant minority.



  • I mean going on your second point, I think it demonstrates the difference between a slur and a descriptor is how it’s used as a word.

    Like transgender is neutral term but we see it becoming a scare word by fascists recently by changing how its used in speech. Like “transgendered”, “transgenderism” or “transing” (as a note, it’s kinda scary how the first two no longer set off window’s spellcheck). Basically turning trans as a state of being adjective into a verb makes it seem like an act you can do to someone or have happen to you.