Thanks for writing this thread @MgS_2011

People who continue to be unconcerned about the danger UCP poses have privilege to ignore the existential threat being made.
Those who are still fighting for social equality, use of their political agency, acceptance and political change to accommodate their needs don’t have the luxury of privilege.
The rights of the most marginalized are under threat while still being established. Existential threat.

Ignore that threat and you are giving conservatives tacit approval.
It shouldn’t matter if your own personal human rights are being attacked. An attack on the rights of one is an attack on the rights of all.

Denial is not a valid excuse.
Yes, this is really happening. Conservatives have adopted autocracy.

Those of us who remain socially democratic are all that stands between human rights being removed and open personal attacks to commence on the most vulnerable.
If you’re progressive, you have a responsibility and obligation to take notice and defend democracy.

There are no excuses. Complicity is inaction in the face of threat.

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23 May
I can’t let this go unchallenged. An emotional reaction to personal insult should not overrule critical thinking skills.

But it does and it is being used to elicit an expected response from those whose sensibilities and identity is being insulted.

salon.com/2021/05/18/now…
As a mother of a child on the spectrum, I can’t let this go unchallenged.

There is ample evidence that those with emotional vulnerabilities are more susceptible to SM propaganda.

That includes autism and ASD.
@MatthewRozsa
I for one would appreciate if the “shaman’s” defence lawyer was able to prove a targeted campaign to manipulate his thinking was the cause of his apparent break with reality.

It would create widespread public acknowledgement of how the far right is using military grade PSYOPS.
Read 25 tweets
22 May
This is a complete white wash.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

I have a physician of Nigerian descent. He’s the best doctor I’ve ever had in my life. And I’ve had quite a few.
I can’t imagine my physician having to face this kind of BS from a colleague and then a complete minimization of the incident by AHS and the hospital administrators.

How insulting.
Another racially motivated incident white washed as “a joke.” Every racially insensitive action seems to be a joke.

And investigating authorities permit that lame excuse to cover up racist behaviour. It’s so stereotypical it’s ridiculous.

How many times can it be just a joke?
Read 21 tweets
21 May
The problem with Ms Krause’s statement is that we learned a backlog of bitumen that Canadian developers create produces humongous profits for American refinery owners.
When Rachel Notley put a temporary limit on oil sands production, the price of oil jumped immediately.

By maintaining current production levels, and a bottlenecked transport system, US producers can manipulate the price they pay for Canadian product, & thus, the royalty rates.
After its refined, oil sands is sold at the same price as Brent Oil standard price back to Canadians and across the globe.

Resulting in astronomical profits for American upstream owners and shareholders.

At the expense of Albertans and the expense of Canadian fuel consumers.
Read 32 tweets
21 May
Excellent thread Norlaine! Deserves to be amplified and read far and wide!
The only thing I’d add is an explanation for how information is transferred from one person to another and how truth and veracity can be implied through manipulation to provide credibility.

It’s the use & manipulation of framing.
Explained here in a short clip by George Lakoff:



This link will lead to the longer in-depth review Lakoff delivered as a lecture several years ago. This is part 1 of a 6 part series.



Another option is to read his book.
Read 4 tweets
20 May
The question remains...

Why are parents obeying the commands of a lunatic proto fascist operative (La Grange) who is hell bent on infecting kids and their parents with covid?

The first rule in Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Don’t obey in advance.
The next rule is Defend Institutions.

Parents need to defend Public Education.

Teachers, Administrators and custodians are human beings. Sending your kids to school is putting the lives of those people at risk & beneath your need to work and make a living.
If you want great teachers, maybe putting their lives at risk isn’t the best strategy.
Read 19 tweets
20 May
This is an interesting thread that I’m going to use to illustrate current affairs in Israel.

The farther left are struggling with whom to support during this Palestinian Israeli conflict. They’re struggling with cognitive dissonance.
Characteristic of the further left is the desire to view the world through binary thinking. Good or bad, right or wrong, just or unjust.

Nuance and grey areas are forbidden. So a fissure has emerged between those who support Palestine and those who defend Israel.
It’s a curiosity to witness those who attempt to impose simplicity onto a complex and complicated situation. You can almost feel the angst this is causing within the progressive camp.

Support Jews who have been persecuted for millennia or Palestinians, indigenous to the region?
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