Halifax women's march roiled by divisions

CTV News ^ | January 21, 2018 | Adina Bresge, Canadian Press

[Loyalist]

HALIFAX -- The women's march in Halifax was roiled by divisions, as members of an offshoot event showed up to call for the recognition of marginalized groups after some people said they felt unsafe at last year's gathering.

Throngs of people returned to Halifax's Grand Parade square on Saturday for a rally on the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president.

People held up signs on issues ranging from worker's rights to the jailing of a Palestinian activist during an event that included a Mi'kmaq prayer, a Chinese lion dance, a traditional Indian dance and a drumming performance.

As former Halifax poet laureate El Jones took to the microphone for her performance, a group of activists arrived at Grand Parade banging on drums and wafting pink smoke through the crowd before they made their way to a separate gathering elsewhere in the city.

Organizers of that event, dubbed the walk for intersectional women, said some transgender, Indigenous, black and other marginalized people felt unsafe at the main event after facing attacks at last year's march and online.

[Loyalist]

You would think this article was a grotesque parody. You'd be wrong, unfortunately.

This nightmare was allowed to unfold in the streets of Halifax, the wonderful city I once knew in my youth now polluted by the very universities that were its crowning glory.

Take away this part of the story, in which is summarized the savage yet sterile end of identity politics:

Jade Byard Peek, a transgender woman of African-Nova Scotian and Mi'kmaq heritage, said she and others felt uncomfortable and under attack at last year's women's march. When she shared her experiences with march organizers, she said she received "near death threats" and was called an "angry black man" on social media.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"When the going gets weird, the weird get going."
 

[Gen.Blather]

“Jade Byard Peek, a transgender woman of African-Nova Scotian and Mi’kmaq heritage, said she and others felt uncomfortable and under attack at last year’s women’s march. When she shared her experiences with march organizers, she said she received “near death threats” and was called an “angry black man” on social media. “

Gosh...felt uncomfortable...near death threats...angry black man...Well, that certainly sounds...uhm...threatening. Near death threats. What exactly are those?

I asked how to tell whether somebody in an article was genetically a man or a woman and somebody responded, “just change ‘trans’ to fake and you’ll have it.” I guess that was a “near” threat.

[Poison Pill]

as members of an offshoot event showed up to call for the recognition of marginalized groups

Splitters!

[Gay State Conservative]

Organizers of that event, dubbed the walk for intersectional women...

Is "intersectional" Canadian for whackjob?

Or as red Green used to say,"nutbar"?

[morphing libertarian]

My letters to the LA times yesterday and today, never to be published.

Sat after no article about the DC right to life demonstration historically addressed by a president but two articles a long front page one and one in the California section about a #metoo march..

“Interesting to see the article covering the Women’s March which apparently addresses every problem in the history of the US and the #metoo article about the march against sexual harassment. There’s a controversial issue!.

However, the Times was remiss in not covering a historical event in DC on Friday; the president addressing the Right To Live March with thousands in attendance.

The use of editorial position to stifle events and not provide coverage is insidious and one of the major things wrong with todays media. Omission is as bad as propaganda.”

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Today after articles glorifying the March.

“I emphasize with the women who protested this horrible country. They have to live with a misogynistic president, who has lead the country to the lowest unemployment rate for women in recorded history. Where women have full equal rights including equal pay for equal work and they can take an innocent human life, if it’s inconvenient to take birth control or raise a baby. This is a country where someone can grab a woman’s butt and she can complain about it 20 years later and get national media attention. The horror!

My foreign born wife, who is from a country where women were oppressed, would have marched, but she was too busy working, being president of our condo association and working at a church event; to complain about her life and support her oppressed sisters. 7 more years ladies and you can hide your grievances, if a democrat is elected who “feels your pain” and does nothing. Pathetic!”

[Dilbert San Diego]

I heard that this year they were not wanting the pussy hats to be prominent. Reason being, those hats were supposed to be indicative of the vagina. But, to cater to trans whatever, they didn’t want to imply that all.women have a vagina. So that aspect of things was to be downplayed.

[ichabod1]

So why not have penis hats too.

[Peeps47]

These freaks want to identify themselves as different and then get upset when people treat them differently. They do everything they can to not fit in. Everyone is suppose to accommodate them but they won’t make even the smallest concession for anyone.

[llevrok]

the wonderful city I once knew in my youth

My wife is a Haligonian so I understand your comment and lament about Halifax.

From 1982-85, I lived and worked in Vancouver. When my company sent me back to the States, I was asked what I differences I learned between Canada and the US. I said that in the US (then), the majority rules. In Canada, every small minority has as much voice as the majority en toto.

Well, we have since become more Canadia-like. And Canada, from this and my current experience, has sadly become even more fractioned.

[Gen.Blather]

“These freaks want to identify themselves as different and then get upset when people treat them differently. “

I think the idea is to draw attention. You can’t draw attention if you make accommodations and just fit in. You have to act threatened. Nothing draws attention to an attention whore like being threatened. Hence all the false hate crimes. (Have any of them actually been real? And if they are real, what makes them hate crimes as opposed to just crimes? The political status of the victim. Once you have two classes of victims, one “hate” and one who’s just a victim, is there equal justice for the one who is “just” a victim?) The whole idea of “hate” crimes, as opposed to just crimes, is a terrible injustice.

[fruser1]

All those canadians voting for hillary and she STILL didn’t get elected.

[magua]

I want a one meter schlonge hat and beer rally. With springs in the schlongs.

[CaptainPhilFan]

Does this link work?I

The People’s Front of Judea or the Judean People’s Front?

These lefties write the jokes about themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4

[CaptainPhilFan]

PS:

“SPLITTERS!”

[Chauncey Gardiner]

No Target store bathrooms nearby?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

.... an event that included a Mi'kmaq prayer, a Chinese lion dance, a traditional Indian dance and a drumming performance.

In my professional opinion, we're looking at a full-blown hippie jamfest the size of which we've never seen.

[originalbuckeye]

The only place I have ever read/heard of Mi’kmaqs is in the Stephen King novel ‘Pet Semetary’. They are real?

[Fightin Whitey]

“SPLITTERS!”

Seems to be a good many cracks in the organsization.

[left that other site]

Yes. The Mi’kmaqs are real. They are a Canadian Tribe, but there are quite a few in Maine as well. Hence the Stephen King reference.

I am about 65% Mi’kmaq, Scots/Irish, and “Acadian”. The rest of me is Anglo/Saxon, Scandenavian, and “Iberian” (Spanish).

The Mi’kmaq are known fort their exquisite quill-work, beadwork, and basketry.

My sister lives in Northern Maine, and is quite active with the Tribe, most of whom are Conservative, Evangelical Christians or Roman Catholic.

“P*ssyhats” are NOT part of our traditional Tribal Regalia! LOL!