I would suggest that some sort of "freedom of speech" principle might cure this, but like most Canadians, you want freedom of speech only for those who agree with you.
There are only two genders that I'm aware of
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Would your version of freedom of speech include telling lies?
Yup. Because calling speech you disagree with "lies" and banning it under coercive power is the oldest trick in the fascist playbook.
They already are. It's those damn "feelings" that kind of get in the way of rational conversations & people have lost their livelihoods because of those said, "hurt feelings," in Canada anyways.
Apparently, feelings are more important than facts. Huh, who knew?
Yeah, I know.
Like the feelings of those who insist "there are only two genders" and want to apply coercive power to force everybody to agree or shut up.
When you reach for a gun, or handcuffs, or the keys to a cell, you're nothing but a damn thug. Even if your excuse is "protecting THE CHILDREN!"
Yep, and all righties. . . oh, excuse me. . . "conservatives."
Simple fact is that both sides have tried to restrict speech.
There are only two genders. The rest is mental illness of varying degrees. For the most part, we don't care id someone wants to pretend they are something they are not. Up to the point where they insist we have to agree with them.
The Emperor has no cloths thing comes to mind.
Yep. Declaring people mentally ill is the very best way of shutting them up. In asylums. Involuntarily.
The Soviets did that a lot. I'm sure you approve.
There are conservatives, and then there are right wing nuts that may vote conservative because that is the party that they can at least partly understand. Your horseshoe political spectrum comes to mind.
There are a lot of us that get blanketed with the conservative handle, because we are fiscal conservatives, but lean leftish? ( another bad term) on social issues.
Book banning is one subject I strongly disagree with, but there are lots of advocates on both sides. Seems to me, if you don't believe what the book says, prove your point. This most especially applies to the residential school debacle. We have a quasi judicial body that recommended making it a criminal offence to disagree with their version of events. No proof of their story is required.
Thinking you are something you are not is clearly a mental problem. Delusion is the correct term.
Lock 'em up and "therapize" 'em until they start giving the answers you demand. Then talk about how "free" your society is.
Straight out of the Soviet playbook.
It's called Bill C-63. Look it up. The "On-Line Harms Act" euphemistically called the "Thought Crimes Act".
So taking an entire town to the Human Rights Commission to sue them for not acknowledging pride month would be what then? Fascism? Communism? Straight up self-entitled assholery?
How are there more than 2 genders? So you're telling me that biology is wrong; that science is wrong? Huh, who knew?