Gay Pride In Toronto The Journey Continues

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Niflmir said:
Is that what this is about? Seems silly indeed.
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Pretty much. Every year Ford makes an excuse and takes a pass on showing up for the festivities. I don't blame him. I support gay rights and support having pride in your respective cultural group, and I refuse to go. It isn't about gay rights or pride. It's about exploitation and making a great big in your face statement.

Ya, I get he's the Mayor, ya, I get it's a big tourist boon, but ffs, who wants a wet blanket with a fake smile at the festivities anyways?
 
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willqccan said:
It was not my point >.>

There is still homophobia everywhere, it's a good thing to remember it and to keep our governments and laws out of our bedrooms (except for children and rape cases of course).
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lol Yeah. The sooner people get over it, the easier it will be to carry on with life.

CDNBear said:
Pretty much. Every year Ford makes an excuse and takes a pass on showing up for the festivities. I don't blame him. I support gay rights and support having pride in your respective cultural group, and I refuse to go. It isn't about gay rights or pride. It's about exploitation and making a great big in your face statement.

Ya, I get he's the Mayor, ya, I get it's a big tourist boon, but ffs, who wants a wet blanket with a fake smile at the festivities anyways?
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Yep. Ignore the stuff. I do. Just not into big flashy crap.
Not into shutting down the main street in one of the little towns near us so half the regular parking spaces and nearly all the parking spaces for the mobility impaired people can't park just to enable a few stores to sell trinkets to tourists either. It causedour friend in a wheelchair to be late for an appointment because he wasn't aware the street was closed to vehicular traffic. I told him he should send the bill to the City.
 
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Niflmir said:
To see why your argument fails, just replace gays with Jews:



Someone who is a mild anti-Semite (as opposed to someone who demonizes or discriminates) is still considered to have an invalid opinion, and everybody rightly considers the person to be slightly irrational. Given that Judaism is actually a choice and homosexuality has been shown to be innate, the argument is easily put forward that mild anti-homosexuality is even more irrational and invalid.

Everybody is entitled to their opinions, true, but we will form our opinions of others based in part on their opinions. I have met a person before who thought all women were genuinely inferior and deserved to be degraded proving his point by degrading a woman in front of me (to my shame, I stood by doing nothing), that may be his opinion, but I immediately thought of this person as the real inferior human being (I also thought less of myself for being unable to say anything). Whether a person believes that anti-homosexuality is deserving of such may vary, but that seems to be the direction society is moving in.
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You just made my point.
IMO, if any opinion that is not considered politically correct becomes a social Albatross around the neck of the one stating it then we are well down the road to hell, with the "social" aspect eventually becoming physical and only those who are considered the elite regarded safe...... for a little while.
The best defense of free speech is speech itself, excluding that speech which incites to, or advocates violence. Those who would muzzle opinion should be very careful what they ask for.
 
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Not all gays like gays. My bro won't go near the "Pride" events. he says they are waaaay too faggy and he can't stand lesbians.
 
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DurkaDurka said:
He is the Mayor of the city though, doing things he doesn't like comes with the position. I agree though, Canada Day should be celebrated but the fat prick can't even do that.



The thing is, it's not just a parade. It is a money bonanza for Toronto. I walked down Church Street today during the Dyke march, the street was literally packed from side to side with capitalism at its best. Food, booze, trinkets etc, it's a good time to make money. Fast Ass Ford needs to get over his homophobia and recognize it for what it is, tourism and money.
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At this point I don't see Ford winning either way. If he goes the PC crowd will say he is just doing it to get votes.(probably true) If he doesn't go they call him homophobic. (also possibly true).
However eve the mayor is entitled to spend a weekend with his family.
I have to go to a Bluegrass festival today, not because I want to but because our Lions club is selling hot dogs to raise money for charity. Otherwise I too would be with my family.
 
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All Mayor Ford has to do is make a comment like being cooked in a pot to get banned from the Gay Pride parade like former Mayor Lastman did and then it will be OK when he does not attend.
 
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CDNBear said:
If I threw a party with all my friends off the rez, you can be sure I wouldn't be inviting the dumpster.

Why it's such a big deal that Ford doesn't show up, is just silly.
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I agree. This is more about the dislike of Rob Ford than whether he's attending a parade.
 
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