NDP's Leah Gazan calls MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ critics 'bigots' (www.cbc.ca)

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I originally thought it was an excessive amount of letters to describe those of us under the rainbow but no, it makes more sense in the context of the article I do not really agree with combining the two but to each their own I guess.

MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ stands for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual+. It's derived in part from the more commonly used initialisms MMIWG (missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls) and 2SLGBTQ+.

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[-] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

It's not nuts. It is uncalibrated and counterproductive. It's also what I've called the "curse of the intellectual", and why they rarely become polliticians, let alone successful ones. It's what happens when ideas are carried further than their utility justifies.

[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 13 hours ago

Having people being able to skip to the front of the queue based on the colour of their skin or disability, as though it was some kind of hierarchy of the oppressed is nuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPLQNUVmq3o

this is a cult, it's like a weird reverse powergrab, the one that's the most hardest done by gets to bark orders at everyone about how they should behave

[-] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

It's not fundamentaly different than the Heritage Foundation trying to find ways to bring back lynchings. People pick a position that suits their narrative and groups eventually evolve extremists. It exists everywhere. This only appears absurd because you're getting a rare glimpse of LGBTQ+ and neurodivergents trying to self govern.

It's not absurd. It's inevitable. These groups have never had a voice before, let alone the freedom to try and self-assemble power.

You judge a nascent phenomena in human civilization with a lense that was forged, refined and normalized watching the dominant power groups who have had fewer of the particularities of these minorities and a lot longer to work out the kinks of governance.

The real kicker here - tell me this well intentioned but unproductive spectacle here is "nuts" while I look at the dominant form of conventional politics in the news daily. It makes me want to pull out a lawnchair, sit naked on the frontlawn, crack a cold one and wait for the nuclear blastwave to free me.