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   Steven 🥖 (steven@zeroes.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 08:49:50 JST Steven 🥖

   Tomorrow is the date for a major set of anti-LGBT marches across Canada.

   Before COVID-19, these campaigns were led by biker gangs and European style neo-Nazi groups like the Hell's Angels and Soldiers of Odin.

   Those groups are still involved, but now they also include:

   - Anti-vax extremists who've spent the last three years threatening our doctors, nurses and teachers;

   - American-style Christian Nationalist anti-trans terrorists who've been calling in bomb threats to local queer events;

   - Convoy groups inspired by the US "Jan 6" attacks, who ship themselves into cities to harass their residents, and who have recently attacked BC firefighters;

   - So called "sovereign citizens" and Qanon-style conspiracy theorists like the followers of Romana Didulo, responsible for various political murders in the US; and

   -A new movement of fringe Muslim conspiracy theorists who support sex-trafficker Andrew Tate.

   https://www.antihate.ca/1_million_march_4_children

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     Steven 🥖 (steven@zeroes.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 08:49:59 JST Steven 🥖

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     These are not protests. These are fascist mobs whose sole purpose is to threaten LGBT people and their allies.

     Nominally focused on inclusive sex-ed in schools (SOGI), the goal of these conspiracists is to spread the dangerous and inciting lie that transgender and 2SLGBTQ+ persons are pedophiles who are “grooming” children

     They use a wide variety of language, to speak to a variety of audiences, from normal seeming language around "parents choice" to explicit lies about groomimg and pedophilia.

     The purpose of these mobs isn't to convince anybody of anything. It's to inspire stochastic terrorism and intimidate politicians with threats of violence.

     It is not a coincidence that they adopt many strategies from 20th century fascist street gangs, and that their talking points are only slightly updated versions of 20th century anti-Semitic conspiracy theories such as blood libel.