Ontario school union tells premier to speak out after offices vandalized with anti-LGBTQ messages
https:// www.cbc.ca /news/canada/london/cupe-vandalized-london-ont-1.6972049 Ontario school union tells premier to speak out after offices vandalized with anti-LGBTQ messages
Good. We need to protect our kids from this anti-LGBTQ garbage. The premiere stands on the wrong side though, even if he were to pay lip service.
22Doug Ford was elected at least in part by the very people out there spreading the Anti-LGBTQ messages. I was spending the summer in one of the communities south of Ottawa during the 2018 election, I don't vote in Ontario, but I spend that particular summer with Ontario voters. One of the big draws of Ford in that election, according to the supporters of his I know, was that he would be against the school boards teaching , quote "little kids about gay sex, and anal sex, in grade 1". I told her it wasn't true as I had read the curriculum changes and no such thing was happening, I told her she could read the curriculum online herself and see that this was not happening, and all I got for that was told that "they talk about it in Church, it's true". The people out protesting today against gender and LGBTQ+ topics being dealt with in school are so easily lead around by the nose I fear no amount of reasoning with them will work. It will take their leaders standing up and telling them it isn't true, and maybe then they'd listen, but the problem is people like Ford will never, ever correct them because Ford knows he benefits.
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5I blame Harper for bringing the reform party in, it let them grow and now every Conservative Party has to cater to them
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The union representing frontline education workers in Ontario is calling on Premier Doug Ford to take action after three of its offices in London, Ont.
London police said in an email Wednesday evening that it is aware of vandalism to the CUPE buildings and investigations are active and ongoing.
"Irrespective of your faith, heritage, sexual orientation, or colour of skin, our government is firmly committed to the safety and well-being of all children in Ontario schools," said Isha Chaudhuri, a spokesperson for Education Minister Stephen Lecce.
Laura Walton, president of CUPE's Ontario School Boards Council of Unions said in a statement that the vandalism was intended to intimidate workers.
"Vandalism is a classic tactic of intimidation that has been used against organized workers and oppressed peoples by mobs that oppose freedom, equality, and justice the world over," Walton said.
The Thames Valley District School Board has told union employees to work remotely Wednesday as a safety precaution ahead of planned protests.
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7Hopefully Doug will.
2CBC reported that Conservative MPs were told to keep quiet about this; I imagine provincial cons would want to do the same
1Hopefully Doug will.
He probably won't. Oh, not just for this; his regular response is immeasurable without sensitive equipment.
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some stickers on a window. clearly some evil genius villains plan
-11If the premier stoking these problem people means they escalate their behaviour, at least the RCMP will be handling them as a hate group.
But all of these headlines should read something like "Premier's distraction tactic results in vandalism. Greenbelt sell-off continues to be investigated"
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stickers with sayings such as 'Keep gender politics out of school' and 'Hands off our kids' were plastered all over their buildings on Tuesday morning.
Why is this anti-LGB?
-18You'll notice the title says anti-LGBTQ. I wonder if you omitted a couple letters intentionally?
Don't kid yourself. Those who are currently after transgender people were also fighting against gay rights 20 years ago. They will happily take on that fight again given the opportunity.
31It's not anti-lgb. For historical reasons, lgb and t are wrapped up in the same bundle, even though lgb are sexualities and t is gender.
You say something bad about t, you're saying something bad about lgbt.
13"I don't know what a dog whistle is" -- Person actively using a dog whistle while they sealion.
7Because these messages imply parents want 100% control over their kids, when kids are individuals as much as anyone else, with their own opinions and identities. No one is pressuring these kids to be anything other than themselves, except for these parents who want their kids to be exactly like the vision in their head, which isn't going to happen most of the time (Free will and personality and all that). If the idea of kids being around other cultures and types of people is scary to a parent, they need to think about who's grooming who.
7parents want 100% control over their kids
No shit.
Yes whatever my toddler wants, I just give it to him. He has feelings and those feelings trump what I think he should do. I really need to stop oppressing my child.
1parents want 100% control over their kids
No shit.
Yes whatever my toddler wants, I just give it to him. He has feelings and those feelings trump what I think he should do. I really need to stop oppressing my child.
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They think teaching kids about sexualities and genders are "politics".
Also please don't leave out T.
6They're a terf, it was intentional. Don't say please, report/punch irl if you encounter. Erasure is just one step on the path of genocide.
6I think parents have a problem with adult strangers talking to their young children about sex.
As they should.
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Oh fuck off terf. Stop erasing us.
6Shouldn't you be at the march?
5Right, makes it much easier to target trans people if we can separate them from the bigger group that banded together against these attacks a decade ago and formed a larger group to show solidarity. Why is it wrong to break up that solidarity.
Just asking questions
3You're such an awful piece of shit, nice obvious dog whistle though.
3Well, you forgot a few groups.
But to answer the question with one, how is this different from the rhetoric that the bigots crowd have been using for decades?
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