I’m fine with them making a statement but it’s been nearly an hour now. Its excessive. We all support you but let the parade continue.

They don't care about you. Only about fake shows of power. Palestinians saved: zero. Pride parades cancelled: one.

It did continue, it was just the way the community wanted instead of the way the corporate organizers and the mayor wanted.

"We all support your stance against genocide but only if the inconvenience is for 10 minutes or less. I want the corporate floats and pop music back." The human race is so cooked, man.

How was blocking the parade a “ stance against genocide”?

They are free to protest but hijacking the Pride Parade was not the right time nor the right place to get their message out.

Time to lock them up and charge them.

Fuck off back to the suburbs asshole

You sound like you'd be a lot of fun at parties.

I’m a law abiding citizen. Unlike these people.

You got a real short memory about why the pride parades started, eh?

Not by illegally disrupting a public event…..

Say, by throwing bricks at police cars?

I’ve been attending this thing for years. No one has ever thrown a brick at a car or anything close to

You're ignorant of history. Read a fucking book child.

I know plenty, thanks. No one asked you.

Not enough apparently. Fascist trash

Short memory, as I said. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewa...

Soft babies using Stonewall to justify a disruption of a parade they agreed to lead snacks of self serving nonsense. You are the polar opposite of Stonewall.

Soft babies? What does this comment even mean?

So you...don't know anything about pride.

So you know nothing about Pride

When in the past did they block pride parades? This a recent phenomenon.

i dunno. How long has there been a livestreamed, active genocide that our government is supporting? And what's your point, exactly?

If it’s not happening on Canadian territory, I really don’t care. The majority of Canadians feel the same.

That's not the flex you think it is.

Doesn’t need to be…. Just how we roll.

Well, you can continue to take pride in being a bad human being. I'm gonna keep trying to make the world better. Toodles.

Then protest the government. The reason you go after pride is because it is an easy target. You know there will be no pushback

They were protesting the government, as I recall.

This is not a good way to garner support for the "cause".

Chill out Dale

"If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas"

Of course queer Palestinians and queer people in solidarity with liberation and justice movements worldwide are protesting a genocide at an event that started as a public protest for the rights of queer people. This is a lousy take, Dale.

You're welcome to unfollow me.

And you’re welcome to take the critique and reconsider your words.

They choose to block the pride parade because it is an easy target with no repercussions.

I live in Ottawa and I am queer. I absolutely agree with you.

This is clearly the way forward for the Left: take all the good causes in the world, put them in a cage, & make them fight it out until one emerges bloodied & morally triumphant. Sabotaging each other has always proven to be the best way to advance human rights, democracy, & social justice.

Hasn’t Pride always been about protest? Suppose you could be pro-genocide and have Pride, but . . . .

How was the pride parade pro-genocide? Please be specific.

as someone who wasnt really aware of the parties involved but tried to figure out what happened im still do confused. as far as I can tell queers for palestine are wildly incompetent, sanctimonious, and pathetic jerkoffs who just use palestine as a tool to celebrate themselves.

ive seen some responding to it like what they did was a knife in the eye of corporate pride and moderate policy on israel - you cant have effective protest when people dont even understand what is going on. they had ONE negotiator who admitted to being sidetracked.

IN THE MIDDLE OF NEGOTIATIONS... when there were people actively stuck and waiting for the parade to move. and regardless of the moral implications... how can people just acquiesce to a random group they dont fully understand? who gave Q4P the authority to lead a new march? worthless maggots.

This is so breathtakingly dumb and wrong that I find it hard but not impossible to believe they are legit.

The Oct8th celebration by this group baffled me as it was obvious that the horrific attack on teenage peace concertgoers by Hamas, would result in Gaza's devastation. Neither act is justified, but q4p wouldn't survive a New York minute in any Middle Eastern country except Israel.

I'm not entirely without sympathy for them. There is a genocide going on right now and our government has done nothing. If we can't get our government to intervene in a genocide, what makes you think human rights on the home front are safe?

Bc Canada isn’t Gaza. This kind of thing doesn’t help people in GAZA. Many Canadians support Palestinian statehood, but we don’t support other events being hijacked. Their cause is important but it’s not more important than Pride is to the LGBTQ+ community. This was their event. Leave them alone.

I hate to be "that social media user" but the like ratio from the OP and my reply would seem to indicate more people support the anti genocide action than the people who were upset about the disruption.

You gotta know that’s not an accurate assessment right? It’s your followers, so people who already agree with you. Here’s a piece I wrote to explain, especially for newcomers, the history behind Canada’s tradition of non-violent political protests > unpublished.ca/opinion/the-...

Actually most of them are randos. Although it's nice of you to think I have enough clout to have followers.

I’ll put it on the list for a potential future poll.

Not a bad idea.

To be clear, the genocide of a population should be enough to motivate you. If it's not, though, why do you think they'll care more about you when your time comes?

Sudan is 100 times the genocide right now but I do not see any signs about that. wonder why Carl?

Are we funding the genocide in Sudan, and running cover for its perpetrators?

What should Israel have done in response to Oct 8th? This is the perplexing part to me as I have not heard any valid answers to that yet. Remember 250 teenagers were killed in the peace concert alone. many old folks and children were also slaughtered. All I saw on Oct 8 was celebrations in Gaza.

Fucking simpleton

A case could be made that the UN which we fund, paid for October the 7th but you don't see anyone demanding we stop funding the aid. Thanks for the exchange as this is much more complicated than an easy evil vers good scenario. I wish the Israel government responded without the war crimes.

Netanyahu funded hamas and allowed October 7 to happen so he could get his "final solution"

Do you even sound out what you post first? This is why there will never be a PA state as no one treats them as adults with agency and accountability. You act like they are blameless children.

He did not fund it at all he was asked by Arab sates about it and he did not object, as if his objection would have mattered. Peace comes from ownership of issues not blame of others. Otherwise its all out war like what we are seeing and mostly innocents pay the price.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

What the fuck does that have to do with gaza

He thinks that sharing an article from the daily fail about hate crimes against gay people in Palestine (as if that doesn't happen in North America) is somehow justification for a genocide. He's a worthless fascist

You could make that case. You'd be wrong, but you could try. But hey, keep on that script bud.

No answers from you just back seat driving and one sided misinformed takes that solve nothing and will never lead to peace. Name an Arab state that supports Hamas. Gay folks are hung from cranes just for being caught in the closet and that is why I do not understand Q4P as they would all hung there.

Hey, guess what's on the script? You're not even novel in your ignorance and evil. Off to the outer darkness with you.

Peace has no chance with folks that think the way you do. In fact it is your model of thinking that has led to the current situation. Enjoy that which you author I suppose. Until both sides find competent leadership and compromise towards peace this will continue.

Ottawa pride isn’t funding any international conflict

Ottawa pride submitted to pressure from genocidal zionists to remove statements of support for Palestinians. Supporting victims of genocide isn't antisemitism

Pro-Palestinians were allowed in the march. A select group of activists didn’t get everything they wanted so blocked they parade.

pride parade isn't place for misinformed political stances that we in Canada have no impact or influence on. I still do not understand how folks support Hamas who would hang every last gay person in a New York minute. This war between extremists been going on for centuries. Hamas & BB need to go!

When we fly the Israeli flag at city hall in Ottawa we giving moral support to genocidal fascists. It's a slap in the face of anyone who is against genocide

I asked you what the response to oct7th should have been. Clearly what BB is doing is a war crime but what would you have done differently? I am sick of ignorant folks who have no solutions just throw more hate onto the fire. It helps no one and the shame is mostly ignored after oct7. Hamas f'd up!

When we scream intifada forever and chant for Hamas , it’s a slap in the face of anyone who values human life.

It hasn't been going on for centuries. Hamas has only existed since 1986. You don't know anything

Lol stfu baby killer

Well, you're the reason Canada can't have nice things. You've been swept up in some wild ideas, and if you're gay, they'll toss you aside after milking you for all you're worth. Enjoy your self-awarded crown of importance, which is really just a badge of mass ignorance.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

.... and?

When has this occurred in the past parades?

2024 in Toronto. Still waiting on what your point is.

Supporting a genocidal terror group that hates queers is also bizarre. Especially when they support Hamas’ desire to destroy Israel - the one place in the ME where gays are safe. It’s all such nonsense!

Interesting that you think wanting an end to genocide=supporting a terrorist group. You're just a dogshit human being

Thanks for the usual thought provoking comments from the Hamas fan club. Have a good day 🌷

Keep eating zionist shit and losing your soul. You are no better than a holocaust denier

Ottawa pride is also a photo op backdrop for Canadian politicians who are

You tell me. Im sure you have a script.

Our movement is being used to launder a foreign conflict as if it were an American Civil Liberty fight, when it isn’t. Our battles can be won within our laws, Free Palestine cannot. This isn’t solidarity, it’s manipulation. 🏳️‍⚧️

Many of these activists are just narcissists who use such tactics for self-promotion and as a license to bully others. new-archives.org/carol-zou-mo...

Stonewall was an intifada.

Good.

Do you know what their demands are?

If I had to hazard a guess, something about stopping a genocide.

Well I meant more specifically to Pride : are there issues with Zionist groups participating ? (We've seen that in Montreal) Or is it that Pride didn't take a stance on the genocide ?

I wasn't there, but as I read it its that they stopped the parade in front of parliament hill for visibility. Not out of any anti LGBT or anti zionist motivations, but to encourage our government to do SOMETHING.

I was there. This was planned by a couple hundred people in order to center their politics over 20,000 others' Q4P are selfish liars

Protestors were doing their thing in Conf’tn Park & once the parade started & turned north, the front end of the Q4P group (who’d been given a spot near the front of the parade) kept moving while their support pickup stopped … allowing protestors to stream out of the park and join the parade

Whatever bud. You do you.

Pride had retracted a statement of solidarity with Palestine because the (zionist) mayor reportedly pressured them. So they did take a stance, and then were cowards and walked it back. Demands were around boycott and divestment, and striking a Palestine working group (details escape me, sorry)