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[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 80 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The Vancouver protest did well, outnumbering the assfaces by quite a bit. Multiples, maybe 5:1. Hard to tell.

Their talking points were incoherent and inconsistent. One person will tell you that they only care about teaching children and have nothing against trans people, and the next person will start screaming THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS.

Their chant game was absolute shit, they clearly hadn't workshopped for cadence or pithiness.

Lots of American politics mixed in, lots of attempts to shame the crowd about "free speech", they got a couple kids up to scream at the crowd.

[–] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (35 children)

Because there is literally no credible argument against teaching children about being tolerant towards gay and trans kid, other than hate on LGBTQIA+.

Hopefully with kids learning tolerance from an early age, they wont grow to be intolerant idiots like their parents

[–] Chefdano3@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I do hate on LGBTQIA+. It sucks! The acronym is too damn long, and a pain to type out. Can't it be something easy to say and type? Like WIE - We Include Everybody, PAB - People Against Biggots, NBE - Non Binary Equality, or something like that.

[–] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

LGBT is also ok

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[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As someone from the UK, it always makes me laugh when people try and claim free speech as if we have the constitution here because they've watched too many yank grifters online.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, it sucks but the literal peasant class in your monarchy doesn't have actual rights.

[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We do have rights, they're enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights. We just don't have an unfettered right to free speech that makes us have to accept Nazis like the US does.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Just the ones that allow Germans to lock up climate protestors for future crimes, or Brits for insulting their monarch~

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dude, governors are banning books en masse over here in the good ol' land of the free. Laws were never the problem. People always were.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago

The Vancouver protest did well, outnumbering the assfaces by quite a bit. Multiples, maybe 5:1. Hard to tell.

Good to hear