Ottawa school board speaks out against “increasing trend” of extremists targeting schools after students told to “shelter-in-place”

Just when you thought extreme right wing rhetoric couldn’t get any lower … they start targeting children at their schools to hold their protests

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“The biggest names in the Canadian far-right have pivoted to this issue,” Canadian Anti-Hate Network Deputy Director Elizabeth Simons told PressProgress.

“Many of the networks and influencers involved in the anti-2SLGBTQ+ hate targeted at school boards and drag events got their start, or at least their notoriety, during the Freedom Convoy and the COVID conspiracy theory movement.”

  • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    We must protect the children by terrorizing the children!

    Jokes aside,

    Anti-2SLGBTQIA+ groups, livestreamers and right-wing media personalities descended on the residential neighbourhood last week

    I think the number of people winding this sort of stuff up as an opportunity to get their name out there and turn their bigotry into a career in right wing media shouldn’t be underestimated.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Lowest common denominators … internet personalities continually keep circling the drain looking for the lowest hanging fruit to gain a minute of fame.