Confirm that bias!

Vincent J. Curtis

22 Sept 23

RE: “What the 1 million march was really about” Opo-ed by Torstar columnist by Edward Keenan.  The Hamilton Spectator 22 Sept 23

If you thought the million man march 4 kids was about protecting Canadian kids from the teaching of gender identity theory and from pornographic books in school, you’d be wrong!  At least according to Torstar columnist Edward Keenan, whose opinion piece is a textbook example of confirming progressive biases.

He begins with discrediting the entire protest by opening with a description of all the hangers-on, who are portrayed as the usual anti-progressive freak show: people with F- Trudeau flags, a woman shouting about “totalitarian ideology” (which would never happen in Canada, last year’s seizure of bank accounts notwithstanding); a person handing out dystopian warnings about “15 minute cities” (as if it wasn’t a progressive ideal already being implemented in European cities); people warning about the dangers of COVID vaccines, as if there actually were some; and the tyranny of another mask mandate, as if such a mandate wasn’t raised by PHAC head Dr. Theresa Tam.

On top of all that, “the protest organizers included “significant misinformation about what is being taught!” Gosh, you’d think “parents grew up in world in which the existence of these gender questions were ‘essentially invisible.’”  No big deal, “my kids have friends who are trans and non-binary” and are nonchalant about it.

Actually, twenty years ago, nobody heard about Gender Identity Theory, it was snuck in without warning. Parents have a right to be suspicious, because keeping secrets from parents on sexual matters is what the teachers are openly advocating.  Parents want this wretched stuff stopped now.

In typical progressive diversion tactic, the concerned parents are condemned as transphobes and homophobes.  But they must love their kids, because they are out there protesting; they don’t want their children  to be groomed into an alphabet person; and it simply doesn’t follow that that love for their children makes them transphobes or homophobes.  The niceties of close reason doesn’t help the progressive cause in this case, and so progressives go coarse and stay coarse with the aim of cancelling their opponents, and avoid having to meet them on the field of reason.  Love for their kids makes them transphobes; that’s quite a leap!

Keenan’s column confirmed biases against anti-progressives, and ours about Torstar columnists.

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