What was the point in spending our entire childhoods being taught what the Nazis did if we were gonna be expected to sit by and do nothing during a televised genocide?
Margaret Atwood didn’t see the future. She stole the history of Black and Indigenous women, gave it to some fictional white women, and profited off it. Stop idolizing her.
There are Olympic athletes who had to withdraw from these games due to becoming disabled by covid this spring. This is really disrespectful and irresponsible reporting. We are not post-pandemic.
AIDS was only able to decimate a generation of gay men because no one would listen, including a lot of gay men. It was too scary, so they pretended it wasn’t real until it was too late. Governments didn’t care. It was only unwanted people dying at first. Sound familiar?
It’s actually incredibly fucking cruel how so many leftists choose to just entirely ignore the disabled people begging them to stop pretending that covid is just miraculously over. It is the most ableist thing I’ve seen in my life and I’m a gay man who came of age during AIDS.
“Why are so many people sick? Why are so many concerts getting cancelled? Why are so many people in their 30s getting cancer and having heart attacks? Why are all these celebrities dying?”
Seriously painful watching people ask these questions everyday. It’s COVID.
When my youngest was born in 2009, the HCWs all wore masks. When my grandma was in the ICU in 1999, everyone was masked. Now we just say fuck it, who cares about babies or seniors or anyone in between?
People said this exact same thing to AIDS activists. They were wrong then, too. If we don’t act up, we will continue to be ignored. It’s been over 4 years now. It’s time to start making people uncomfortable with their genocidal choices.
Request: Before you go and get all offended on behalf of a rich white lady, consider how silly and unnecessary that would be. Especially since she’s admitted to the theft.
Some lady who gave COVID to her husband who had cancer (and unfortunately passed) didn’t like that I said COVID is increasing cancer rates and now I get to deal with her shitty followers.
COVID is everywhere. It impacts everything. It exacerbates every social issue. You are hindering each and every one of your liberation movements by ignoring and minimizing COVID.
Nurse at hospital: “we’ve had a lot of appendectomies lately. I don’t know what it is.”
It’s covid, just like the medical journals say. Covid nearly doubles your chance of appendicitis.
Violet Affleck should know that, even if it doesn’t feel like her speech accomplished anything, it did. It’s got people talking for days about COViD, people who otherwise wouldn’t have been talking about it. She likely saved some lives, and that is definitely an accomplishment.
COVID is a larger genocide than AIDS, and almost all of you are participating in it. How long do you plan on ignoring the people you’re killing? If you’re waiting for us to die out, I’ve got news for you: COVID will likely disable you and make you one of us before it kills you.
I wasn’t lying. Multiple things can be true at one time. COVID can increase cancer risk even though cancer rates were already rising before COVID. And tons of concerts are being canceled due to illness. I don’t just make shit up for fun. Minimizing covid is wrong. It kills people
Your event is not accessible if it isn’t covid-safe.
If your event is not accessible, your event is discriminatory.
Please wrap your heads around this. Disabled people are being erased, and you are contributing to it.
This week was rough. People are realizing that they can’t ignore the pandemic away and they’re feeling scared and guilty and angry. They’re telling us to direct our anger at the government, while they direct theirs at us, like we haven’t been warning them this entire time.
The West village NYC .
The annual Dyke march takes place with 1000s of people from the LGBTQ community and thier supporters .
Many holding signs in support of Palestine.
The Dyke march normally is held a day before the annual Pride parade in NYC .
COVID is genocide. It is eugenics. It has killed millions of disabled people. It is currently in the process of killing millions more. This should not be a controversial thing to say. It only is because so many of you are pretending to not know that you’re participants in it.
@123itsmeMary
I’m 40, I don’t drive, and I don’t think I’ve gone a month in my life without someone shaming me for it. People are very weird about driving. They’re like offended or threatened that I don’t do it. Like it shouldn’t be an option or something.
More importantly,
@TorontoStar
, why do you still have this negligent advice posted to your website? How many victims do you think you’re shaming daily?
If you’re hosting events that aren’t covid-safe, then yes, you’re infecting people with a disabling and sometimes lethal virus. Instead of getting pissy and stomping your feet when people point this out to you, consider just being a decent person instead.
This is to deter rent strikes. It’s for landlords, not renters. They think we’re all stupid because we’re stupid enough to keep putting up with them while the world crumbles around us.
Young Canadians put a lot of their hard-earned money towards rent every month. We think that should count for a lot more – like towards your credit score.
#ThanksTrudeau
, for adding $50 a month to
@VictorFedeli
's $430 gas bill. I don't know how he'll ever afford it. It's not like he gave himself a 14% raise and a 20% housing allowance increase or anything.
@offbeatorbit
I wasn’t making any of it up. Cancers increasing before COVID doesn’t mean that COVID doesn’t also increase cancer risk. And tons of people are cancelling concerts last minute due to “mystery” illnesses. I added just a few of them to the thread.
It’s hard not to hate the people who are just partying, unmasked, while disabled people are being forced out of society. Just pretending that people they once knew never existed or stopped mattering or are choosing their own isolation.
Like I’m sorry that you hurt your husband and that he’s gone now. Minimizing covid to ease whatever guilt you feel over that is messed up, though, and puts other people at increased risk.
If a queer kid doesn’t want to come out to their parents, they shouldn’t have to. This is only an issue to those who believe queerness is wrong and who want the opportunity to try to abuse it out of their queer kids. Conservatives are facilitating child abuse.
*to be clear, I didn’t tell her specifically that covid increases cancer rates. I just said it generally, to the twitterverse. She came across it and took offence.
@VictorFedeli
My equal billing is $80 a month. I live in a 2500 square foot home, with a 30 year old furnace, poor insulation, and have 7 people living in the home. You clearly live an excessive lifestyle, and are contributing more than your fair share to emissions.
Ignoring COVID while it tears through the most marginalized populations is a choice. It’s an ableist choice. It’s a racist choice. It’s a homophobic choice. It’s an ageist choice. It’s a sexist choice. Stop being a bigot and wear a damn mask.
I need help, folx. I cannot keep track of which countries are allowed to commit genocide and which are not. So far, I’ve got:
Canada - can
Israel - can
China - cannot
The similarities between her and CS’s rhetoric are unreal, btw. “Gay people love me, I don’t have a problem with any of them, except those asshole antifa extremists.”
No, you’re a homophobe and the only queers who like you are also bigots.
Not sure what Albertans are so upset about.
Unemployment in AB is only slightly above national average, at 6.6%. NL is at 11.5%, PEI at 8.8%, NS at 7.2%, and NB at 8.3%.
Average income in AB is the highest in the country, too.
Maybe Albertans are just spoiled.
#Rednexit
Trudeau attends climate march and ignores climate change.
Trudeau attends Pride and breaks promise to end gay blood ban.
Trudeau attends anti-racism protest. My advice: don’t hold your breath for any further action.
Counter-protesting at alt-right protests isn’t something that people do for fun. Counter-protesters aren’t saying, “Hey, look at me! Please shove a camera in my face!” They’re doing a public service, putting themselves between vulnerable populations and those that harm them.
We’re 4 years into COVID now and it’s not slowing down or going anywhere. 10s of millions have died, hundreds of millions have been disabled, and each week more of us die and become disabled by this virus. It doesn’t matter if you’re young or old, sick or healthy. You are at risk
ACT UP's founder often referred to AIDS minimizers as murderers. Not just institutional powers, but even the people in his inner circle. A lot of people hated him for it. His refusal to be corralled is what led to his departure from the GMHC and to the founding of ACT UP.
The richest 1% of Canadians hold 25.6% of the wealth in Canada.
87 families hold the same amount of wealth as the 12 million poorest Canadians.
A 1% wealth tax is a joke. We need hard wealth caps and 100% taxation above a certain income threshold.
Firstly, it wasn’t a “COVID” thread. It was an “extend Ashley Reese’s harassment campaign and shame disabled people” thread. Dishonesty about that the thread was isn’t helpful.
Seeing maskless people shouting ‘No Pride in genocide’ at crowded events during a huge covid wave is actually making me feel sick. You’re all participating in the largest genocide in the world. Hypocrites.
@offbeatorbit
COVID increases the risk of cancer. I didn’t say it was the only cause. Minimizing and ignoring COVID also puts additional strain on health care systems, leading to an increase in late diagnoses.
My sister took my nephew to the hospital a couple weeks ago. He was having suicidal thoughts. They just sent him home and gave her some numbers to call. Now he’s gone. They couldn’t get help quickly enough, even though they tried to. Everything is broken. No one cares.
@EdtheSock
@TorontoStar
Anyone who thinks that Trudeau's racist actions excuse the CPC for its continued bigotry is part of the problem. White people clutching their pearls while condoning a homophobic and Islamophobic leader are the epitome of hypocrisy.
#elxn43
#cdnpoli
@clauderivest
@theJagmeetSingh
Your family's well being is a result of and dependent on Canada's oppression of Indigenous people. If you're actually experiencing any negative impact from the blockades, it is minor in relation to the inconvenience Indigenous people suffer to maintain your way of life.
@RebelHeart529
@TorontoStar
@ellieadvice
This is beyond disgusting.
@TorontoStar
, isn't
@ellieadvice
the same person who only a month ago victim blamed a woman whose partner pointed a gun (because apparently cheating means she should have expected death threats). Get rid of this column NOW.
@pc_optimum
Not even close to enough. Limit the number of shoppers in all your stores. Limit how much they can buy. Most importantly, pay your employees a wage that reflects the fact that they’re providing an essential service.
Cannot deal with people saying, “I don’t care if I get sick,” re: covid. It’s not a fucking cold. You’re not invincible, nor do you live in a bubble. Wake up and stop hurting yourself and others.
This is medical misinformation and it kills people. Imagine saying, “an individual cannot prevent themselves from getting AIDS in perpetuity.” It’s factually incorrect and it encourages people to give up precautions that keep them safe. This message could have already hurt people
Well that
@actupny
meeting was painful. A lot of members really don’t get it or don’t want to, and sadly, they’re given way too much rope to hang the organization with.
Am I allowed to be angry that a person is dead, and a neighbourhood was terrorized, because someone thought it was a good idea to use dangerous aircraft as entertainment? Because I am angry, but I don’t want to cross a line and be disrespectful.
We’re still in a pandemic, folks. One that disproportionately impacts:
😷 Disabled people
😷 Queer people
😷 Racialized people
😷 Children
😷 Seniors
😷 Poor people
😷 Working class people
You’re not doing solidarity if you’re minimizing covid. Wake up. Mask up. For us all.
@PierrePoilievre
Pretending this is a Trudeau problem when housing prices have been increasing quicker than incomes for decades is admitting that you won’t actually address this extremely serious crisis.
Calgary gets more hours of sunlight than any other major city in Canada. It's not about facts for these people. Just 100% ideology. Makes them irrelevant and not worth listening to.
For 40 years, the AIDS Vigil has been a beautiful gathering where our communities can hold space for everyone lost and everyone living with HIV/AIDS. The AIDS Vigil reminds us that people might have been infected by a virus, but it is stigma that kills. May we remember everyone,
You are responsible for the harm you knowingly cause. Ignorance is only an excuse for as long as you’re actually ignorant. If you’re clutching to your ignorance by dismissing the people telling you that you’re causing harm, you are no longer ignorant. You are choosing to do harm.
The NDP is a party of hypocritical cowards. Singh spent yesterday condemning the federal government for its lack of action re: clean water on réserves. Not a peep about his buddy flooding unceded territory without FPIC, though.
JK Rowling is a danger to all queer people. She stokes fear and anger with misinformation, putting us all at increased risk, particularly trans women. If you stand with her, you stand with hate and homophobia.
#ICantStandJKRowling
COVID is currently the largest threat to the queer community, so I’m not really sure what organizations like ACT UP exist for if they don’t exist to fight COVID. Is it just a social club now?