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Originally Posted by Jason14h
Has there been an increases in hostility and violence? I've never seen stats showing this in Canada.
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Police reported hate crimes have more than doubled over the past five years.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1...pid=3510006601
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Originally Posted by Jason14h
I dont think people are sticking their heads in the sand either - But in a country of 40 million people, there is only so much outrage someone can have before they get tired (Unless you sit on social media all day looking for things to be outraged over).
Things are getting better for these groups by the day. It doesn't mean that terrible things worldwide don't still happen, but for almost everyone in the LGBT community life is exponentially better today then anytime in the past.
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This is part of the point. Your experience with these issues is almost exclusively online. So, for you, the level of reaction is equal to the amount of time someone dedicates to these things online. In real life, the real people that are actually experiencing these things do not have the privilege of simply ignoring it because they got “tired.”
That said, it doesn’t take personal experience to see that things are actually getting worse and the hateful ideas that “have always been around” are gaining more traction, both locally and abroad.
“Things are getting better by the day” is a harmless nicety, and comforts probably nobody outside of those who want to believe that’s reason enough not to dedicate any time or effort to it. It’s not nearly enough to look back over 50 years and say “gee golly, what progress we’ve made!” because, as evidenced by this thread, that progress is either enough or too much for some people, and even those who are impressed by the progress would rather remind people to be happy about it than actually put in any effort to listen to the concerns about what’s happening now and what the future looks like if good people don’t stay on top of these issues, let alone actually doing something about it themselves.
This isn’t directed at you, but it’s actually one of the biggest problems I have with people turning this into a “two sides” issues with “room in the middle.” I’m sorry, but you either believe LGBTQ people should be able to live their lives just the same as anyone else without discrimination, or you don’t. And I think most people do, so you (again not “you,” but the general “you”) are not “in the middle” or whatever, we’re all on the same side. The only other “side” is people who want to ensure other people stay lesser than.