2y ago

City of Ottawa, police warn of traffic disruptions downtown for 'million person march' protest

ottawa.ctvnews.ca

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A million, eh? I'll be impressed if they number much more than a hundred, and surprised if they outnumber the counter-protesters. But this is the kind of protest The News loves to report on, so we're all hearing about it before it even happens.
- CTV NewsNet is reporting live in Ottawa and said that there are only "hundreds" of protesters and counter-protesters altogether.
- Their goal was to get 1 million across all of Canada, not just in one place.
  I live in SK, and based on what I what I saw, I would not be surprised if there were between 100-200 people at the pro-"making kids homeless by outing them to their parents" demonstration at my town.
  They're still not going to hit a million, but probably a more than a couple thousand.
...to protest the teaching of 2SLGBTQ+ issues...
The '2' and the 'S' are new to me. When were they added, and what do they represent?
- Two-Spirited is an Indigenous term for someone who isn't hetero.
  From https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-two-spirit-community-5089204:
  " "Two Spirit" is an umbrella term that is meant to unify various gender identities and expressions among Indigenous, Native American, Alaskan Native, and First Nations people.
  It does not refer to a specific gender and is instead a catch-all term that represents a wide variety of people who don't fit in with the traditional gender binary."
- 2S stands for two spirit
- Makes sense in hindsight. Only bigots would try to twist the... well, "brand identity", for lack of a better phrase, of a group they hate.
  There's probably a less corporate sounding version of those words, but I can't currently think of them.
  
  Only a conservative would throw their hands up at new information and decide that all hope is lost.
  The ability to process new information is lost on conservatives.
  When did we as a society allow aggressive stupidity to masquerade as a legitimate political ideology?
One of the fascists is streaming the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZCCSmmOWGU
- My thanks to said fascist. Skimming through that video gives some idea of what went down in Pickering (Ontario, population 100k), which would otherwise be impossible to get without investing way more effort than it's worth. Looks like they had more success there than in Ottawa.

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