Facts Are the New Hate

Posted on | February 7, 2015 | 65 Comments

In Canada, a group called “Emerging Leaders” proclaims its mission to create “a more vibrant, inclusive, and dynamic . . . community for the future” in London, Ontario. If you suspect “vibrant, inclusive, and dynamic” are just a roundabout way of saying flamboyantly gay, you’ve probably heard about the survey these Emerging Leaders conducted “to examine attitudes in London’s queer community and understand its demographics.” Their theory is that “a key to shifting from London’s declining manufacturing economy into a diverse, innovative, knowledge sector economy” is to make their town as queer-friendly as the Castro district of San Francisco during the annual Gay Pride Parade.

Alas, the Emerging Leaders survey of the local “LGBTQ community” found that “only 16.1% of respondents fully agree that they feel safe and able to express their sexuality while walking in public in London.” This allegedly hostile climate of homophobia, said the Emerging Leaders, is “troubling,” and they urged “improving tolerance of London’s queer community . . . through increasing the opportunities for LGBTQ community members to meet in public spaces.”

Whether or not turning Ontario into the Queer Capital of Canada actually would be good for the economy, you can understand why some skeptics might object to this idea, especially as it involved depicting the area’s non-queer residents as dangerously violent bigots. In response to the Emerging Leaders survey, local conservative radio talk show host Andrew Lawton posted this information to his Facebook page:

Number of sexual-orientation motivated
hate crimes in Canada per year: 185
Number of HIV/AIDS infections from
men having sex with men in Canada per year: 1450
Who is the real enemy?

Apparently, these are Facts You’re Not Allowed to Mention in Canada, and Lawton was forced to issue an online apology.

Alas, the local Diversity Fascists were not sufficiently appeased, and station manager Nathan Smith suspended Lawton’s program:

Perhaps, in the politest, most civil way possible, it would be a good idea to remind AM980’s Nathan Smith that until Andrew is reinstated, listeners will stop buying products and services advertised on the station. It might also be a good idea to remind some of the station’s advertisers of that.
You can email Nathan Smith at: [email protected]

Canada: Where Queer Freedom Is the Only Freedom That Matters.

Category: Canada, Gays

Comments

65 Responses to “Facts Are the New Hate”

Mal
February 7th, 2015 @ 3:26 pm

Wonderful post, Mr. McC. Hatefully factual.
In the 21st century, truth is no defence.
Hanzo
February 7th, 2015 @ 3:39 pm

Truth is not popular. We live in interesting times.
Carla Rolfe
February 7th, 2015 @ 4:11 pm

I clearly understood what was meant by “who is the real enemy”. If gay men in Canada should have *anything* to be more afraid of, the numbers insist, it would be HIV/AIDS infections. But we’re not allowed to say that.
Jeanette Victoria
February 7th, 2015 @ 4:25 pm

And the insanity march continues.
Adobe_Walls
February 7th, 2015 @ 4:31 pm

Time for ”Radio Free Canada”.
AwD
February 7th, 2015 @ 4:32 pm

Just what constitutes expressing one’s sexuality in public? Because I am not in favor of *anyone* feeling comfortable doing that kind of thing where I might see it, no matter what their orientation is. Get a room!
RS
February 7th, 2015 @ 4:54 pm

Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom has another take. All the parental outrage will do no good. Only removing one’s children from the leftist-progressive public school industrial complex matters.
RS
February 7th, 2015 @ 4:58 pm

It means “active, open, celebration.” Anything less, including indifference will be punished. Sexual deviance can only be viewed as an unalloyed “good” in society. It’s dangers must be ignored/whitewashed so that the deviants won’t feel bad about themselves. Of course, that works about as well as ignoring a minor tooth ache.
kyleyoder
February 7th, 2015 @ 4:59 pm

Canada’s veneer cracks.
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February 7th, 2015 @ 5:41 pm

[…] Facts Are the New Hate.. […]
Bob Belvedere
February 7th, 2015 @ 5:42 pm

I think we should have Pirate Radio stations down here ready to go. The time is coming where we will need them.

Question For The Tech Guys Out There: would we be able to set up Pirate Internet?
Bob Belvedere
February 7th, 2015 @ 5:44 pm

What she does in that post is a good tactic.
WarEagle82
February 7th, 2015 @ 5:57 pm

Many times I have said homosexuality is a a deadly life-style and little short of “suicide-by-sex” based on CDC figures. And virtually every time I have made that post, I am pilloried as a hater and homophobe.

If I really was a hater and a homophobe I would helping homosexuals spread their disease by opening a gay bar or bath house. Instead, I try to warn them of the dangers of their lifestyle and that just won’t do.

Homosexuality is truly vile behavior. It is NOT just a bunch of well-groomed, well-dressed, sensitive men sitting around, reading poetry to one another. But that is what they would have us believe, at least in the old days.
Adobe_Walls
February 7th, 2015 @ 6:50 pm

Pirate internet would be extremely difficult if possible at all. While I don’t ”know” I suspect that a secure ”Pirate internet” is a definite no. There are patriot comms guys out there.
Bob Belvedere
February 7th, 2015 @ 6:57 pm

We need our own Pirate Radio that is clearly separate from the loons.
Kathy Shaidle
February 7th, 2015 @ 7:32 pm

Thanks! Support appreciated. We need to fix this.

BTW: What Andrew didn’t mention was the rate of domestic violence between gay couples. Stats are hard to come by because it would mean airing their dirty laundry (shut up) in public, but I imagine gays are more likely to be “bashed” in their own homes than on the streets.

#GayLivesMatter dudes!
Zohydro
February 7th, 2015 @ 7:52 pm

Violence of all types affects the “transgender” mob at an inexplicably horrendous rate… Only a small fraction of this is attributable to “hate crimes”! I’ve read that just today that latest celebrity tranny freak, Bruce Jenner, was involved a fatal automobile accident…
Fail Burton
February 7th, 2015 @ 7:58 pm

Canada is the closest thing we have to Orwell’s nightmare of 1984. The U.K. isn’t far behind. Only the First Amendment is staving off a similar fate for America and that resolve among the rank and file is crumbling. We seem intent on putting failure in charge of the West. Eventually that will lead to either world war or American compliance to non-interference demands in certain spheres of geographical influence. It will probably be the latter as that will likely coincide with a breathtaking demographic overturn of America from what it was to a gentrified version of the Third World. That won’t last either – decline is never static. China and Russia are the success stories of the future due to the simple absence of political correctness. Eventually their success will attract the Third World hordes. Without guilt to subvert their own societies, they’ll likely machine gun illegal boats full of aliens rather than set up depots to let them filter into their lands.
Fail Burton
February 7th, 2015 @ 8:00 pm

There’s no reason we couldn’t go old school and broadcast. Remember how the Harkonnens used old artillery.
CountryGeorge
February 7th, 2015 @ 8:07 pm

What vile misleading manipulative shit. Mr Lawton is suffering the consequences of capitalism. Not political correctivism. Sponsors or lack thereof will determine the fate of Mr. Lawton. Not the extreme and indecipherable voices from either side of this debacle.
Finrod Felagund
February 7th, 2015 @ 8:26 pm

It’s not too difficult to set up an alternate root nameserver that passes through to normal nameservers for stuff it doesn’t know about. That doesn’t keep people from accessing you through IP addresses, though.
trangbang68
February 7th, 2015 @ 8:47 pm

If you are forced out of the public square because you dared to call sodomy disgraceful, unnatural behavior, that is indeed political correctness. Capitalism already spoke. Lawton obviously had an audience or he wouldn’t have had a show.. The station manager is a coward who caved into the lavender nazis.
Jeanette Victoria
February 7th, 2015 @ 8:54 pm

Ah there you go with another Hate Fact!
nicholasstix
February 7th, 2015 @ 9:11 pm

“What vile misleading manipulative shit. Mr Lawton is suffering the consequences of capitalism.”

This is apparently the current racial socialist talking point meant to fool people about their silencing of their opponents. It’s part of an ongoing propaganda campaign, in which RSs claim that “diversity” (racial, ethnic, and sexual discrimination) is just good business sense.
nicholasstix
February 7th, 2015 @ 9:13 pm

Time for Radio Free America!
Adobe_Walls
February 7th, 2015 @ 9:32 pm

Absent the fairness doctrine we have that, though it might not work out that way in practice.
Mark O'Realius
February 7th, 2015 @ 9:41 pm

Canada is about the most gay-friendly place on earth. Where else could a prancing, mincing, fey, excessively sibilant part time drama teacher have an excellent shot at being Prime Minister?
kilo6
February 7th, 2015 @ 10:07 pm

Wirsless Mesh Networks are a doable although lower bandwidth possibility. The military has been using this idea for a while.
theoldsargesays
February 7th, 2015 @ 10:19 pm

Actually, we are allowed to say it, we just have to be aware that it may cost us our job if we do. Apparently ideals such as freedom of expression only apply to some people these days. I know that I ain’t one of them but as we say in the Corps…f~ck ’em.
CountryGeorge
February 7th, 2015 @ 10:24 pm

Such paranoid delusional ramblings.
CountryGeorge
February 7th, 2015 @ 10:26 pm

Synapse collapse. So what are your thoughts regarding evolution. A sodomic fairytale?
nicholasstix
February 7th, 2015 @ 10:50 pm

Says the leftwing troll. And 2 + 2 = 5.
Zohydro
February 7th, 2015 @ 10:58 pm

We can all be relieved that Jenner is OK (!) though one nameless peasant was incidentally killed and several more were maimed…
M. Thompson
February 7th, 2015 @ 11:35 pm

We are passing into decadence.

And many will die defending it, to ensure that darkness does not fall.
RS
February 7th, 2015 @ 11:52 pm

So, “capitalism” is responsible for removing a show where the host indicated that there were 185 sexual-orientation based hate crimes in Canada per year, a fact you do not dispute. That means that in a country of over 35.5 million people, (of whom, five percent are LGBT, i.e.1.775 million), there is a 1 in over 9500 chance of being the victim of a sexual assault.

Yet, this minority feels it is unsafe in spite of those facts, and demands nonspecific and/or nonsensical changes within a community to accommodate those changes. (What does ” increasing the opportunities for LGBTQ community members to meet in public spaces” mean? Are there public spaces closed to them? Are they denied access to public spaces, where, oh say, model railroad aficionados are allowed?)

These are facts. These are legitimate questions. A small minority silenced the recitation of those facts and the asking of those questions. It did so, because the facts and the answers demonstrate their beef is ludicrous.

It is not about capitalism, because by definition, unless the five percent of LGBT Canadians include the 51% of the buying power in Canada. It is about silencing dissent from march of the Progressive agenda.

Your misdirection is cute. Your cursing on the internet is precious. Alas, it won’t work here.
CountryGeorge
February 8th, 2015 @ 12:05 am

The defence rests.
Mike G.
February 8th, 2015 @ 12:23 am

Fact #1- I don’t care if you are gay…I really don’t. That’s between you and your creator.

Fact #2- When you parade your sexual preferences around in public, be
prepared for ridicule. You want tolerance, then be tolerant of others
with different views than you and keep private stuff private!

Fact#3- See fact 1 and fact two.
Mike G.
February 8th, 2015 @ 12:30 am

Better pull down your skirt George, your progressive liberal credentials are showing.
Bob Belvedere
February 8th, 2015 @ 1:28 am

I just couldn’t look – thanks for taking one for the team, Mike.
concern00
February 8th, 2015 @ 2:03 am

To be fair to the Castro district, children are only allowed to watch and not participate.
Daniel Freeman
February 8th, 2015 @ 2:15 am

Short answer, no. Long answer, there are two approaches to that: cryptography and parallel infrastructure.

The former approach is currently being used by what is called the “dark web,” sending encrypted packets of data through routers that the Feds can sniff, and I don’t trust it. I’m intrinsically curious, but I will hold myself in check when it comes to the possibility of my life being ruined by sniffing around the wrong place.

The latter approach involves something like the laptops for Africa program — mental note, need to look into its progress — which was, among other things, going to use each one as a transceiver. Each one would extend the internet by not only receiving the internet, but also broadcasting it.

However, even if you could solve all of the technical problems, you could never solve the social problem of filtering access to the network. As far as the soft despotism of filtering access to data, fine, we can distribute it more no prob. When it comes to the possibility of being raped and imprisoned because the government knows who dissents, just ask the losing side in the last Iranian election.
Daniel Freeman
February 8th, 2015 @ 2:38 am

What nonsensical prevaricating. As if the sponsors were invulnerable to the air-raid sirens of politically correct whining; as if there were something wrong with pushing back.

I’m confident that you sleep well at night, happy with your deceitful manipulations. A happy liar.
Daniel Freeman
February 8th, 2015 @ 2:50 am

“Synapse collapse” is not an argument. You still haven’t answered his.

So what are your thoughts regarding thought-terminating clichés. A cis-het fairytale?
Daniel Freeman
February 8th, 2015 @ 3:10 am

You should get a bluetooth earpiece, so that people will think that you’re talking on the phone. Oh wait, were you talking about someone else?

Did you think that acting confused would substitute for an argument? You’re not the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, and this is not a SNL skit.
Daniel Freeman
February 8th, 2015 @ 3:21 am

The defence rests.

Well. Glad I’m not your defendant, since this is not Saturday Night Live, and you can’t actually win by simply pretending to be confused and frightened by the evidence.
RKae
February 8th, 2015 @ 3:24 am

…survey of the local “LGBTQ community” found that “only 16.1% of respondents fully agree that they feel safe…

I wonder if anyone will ever survey me to see if I feel safe, happy and included?

Also: These damned people are 2% of the populace. I think a society that caters to the other 98% is pretty darned inclusive.
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trangbang68
February 8th, 2015 @ 7:45 am

If they would quit performing unsanitary, unnatural acts on each other they might feel a whole lot safer. It’s called risky behavior for a reason.
trangbang68
February 8th, 2015 @ 7:46 am

Methinks Boy George has been swilling water from the cow pond. He’s not making a lot of sense.
trangbang68
February 8th, 2015 @ 7:50 am

I hope you’re not implying that the rise of the gay cheerleaders is an evolutionary leap forward for society. I would make the case that it’s the opposite, moral entropy on display, the collapse of civilized society into broken and degraded parts.