Fascism Watch Quick Update: a brief note about changes in rhetoric

Here’s the Canadian Tory party leader going in on anti-LGBTQ shit, as relayed on Mastodon.

But let’s break it down a little.

Trudeau posted a fairly generic statement against anti-LGBTQ hate.

Tory leader Pierre Poilievre condemned that statement as “demonizing concerned parents,” pulling that in out of apparently nowhere.

But it’s not out of nowhere. It has a specific meaning and history. And, as the Republicans have done, it signals a return to the many decades of “all queers are pedophiles who want to rape your children and turn them queer” accusations.

I’ve talked about this before, but Project 2025 – which isn’t the Republican platform offically, but is basically the Republican platform since they no longer have one and it was made by the Republican power block – outlines the plan. They’re going to make all LGBT people illegal again, using the old fundamentalist argument that any mention of LGBT people is intrinsically sexual and thus pornographic, and thus unsuitable first for children, then for all adults.

They also say that if local prosecutors don’t act, they will charge the prosecutors until they’re replaced with ones who will. It’s all there.

This plan was refined and shaken out in Russia, and they’re just out and out saying they’re going to do it if they get power. It’s part of the Republican Project.

And this twisting of “LGBTQ people shouldn’t be subject to hate” into “demonizing concerned parents” is absolutely the entry point to that in Canada.

Just as it has been here.

(After this, a school right next to Poilievre’s riding got another round of bomb threats. Just saying.)

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