Because a 50-year plan by extremist christian sects to drive the world back to the social dark ages is coming to fruition?
Frankly for us, it’s due to the USA’s influence on Canadian politics and society. Look at the current trans genocide going on in various US states/federally. When they’re done with us, they’ll come for the rest.
Copy and pasted from a response to another comment that tried to assert that Canadians aren’t bigoted save for US influence:
I think it is very funny to suggest that Canadians would need to be tricked or convinced into being bigoted. Even if that was why, those values can only be promoted through social media algorithms and other media production because a substantial number of Canadians are already bigoted, and therefore feel comfortable with said influence. Transphobia and homophobia can be promoted that way because they are already legible to Canadians.
The US and Canada are not two separate planets, they’re cooperative settler-colonial states with a shared interest in maintaining heteronormative hierarchies the same as racialized, gendered, and class hierarchies. It isn’t a coincidence that many white supremacist leaders in the US are Canadian, or that the Canadian state invests a substantial amount of money into “heritage” subsidies to produce media which portrays Canada as anything other than a brutally genocidal, extractive enterprise. When people talk about racism in the US, they don’t consider Canadian influences despite their effects.
It’s true that Canada is subordinated politically and culturally to the US, and honestly, it would be accurate to describe it as a part of the US empire for many reasons. So, it isn’t necessarily untrue to say that the US influences political or cultural developments within Canada, but it is distortive to suggest that this is why Canadians subscribe to preexisting settler-colonial values. Why not mention the UK then? They’re as foreign to Canadians as the US is. J.K. Rowling alone is largely responsible for the rise in trans genocide rhetoric in the past decade even if just by merit of the wealth transferred by her into the hands of bigots globally; the UK government has readily integrated that rhetoric into policy.
The US dedicates wealth to promoting these values the same way every imperialistic state does, including Canada, because they need them to exist. Yes, it effects how rhetoric is applied and by whom, but it works on Canadians because the Canadian state already socializes its citizens to subscribe to these values.
People are fucking stupid. An overwhelming number of them will believe literally anything if it is repeated enough, and most of them just believe whatever the viewpoint of the prevailing power structure is.
You can say that again!
Oh no! I want people to consider it themselves and come to their own conclusions. You’ll not get me, propaganda!
When your news and media is owned by right wing US oligarchs, they’ll spew whatever make believe Christian bullshit they want for the plebes to slurp it up and repeat their hate.
Canada needs to block all US news and if not, it needs to be labelled as US owned so when you’re reading the Calgary Herald, you know that it’s a filthy US propaganda rag, by way of post media is a grotesque idea of journalism.
Less America, more Canada.
I’d preface with asking when was it ever accepted?
Then point to immigration, we try to get as many pro-US/right wing people as possible because our native population doesn’t accept what the government wants. As an example in the lead up to the war in Iran, we let in something like 90% of refugee claims from that club.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-refugee-claims-acceptance-rate-1.7424323
Now we actually have people celebrating the US bombing civilians and the media focuses on that instead of the people who want Canada to fight against the US.
Some caveats; there aren’t any countries left of Canada that people would want to leave to come here. So there’s an inherent bias for immigrants to get more right wing than Canada. Poverty also impacts political beliefs, and rich people aren’t incentivized to leave situations that made them rich. Immigration as a scapegoat, the problem is how we select them not the people themselves so the blame is on the government. They could just as easily approve asylum claims for gay/trans/coloured people from the US, we saw the educated exodus of the US get met with 50 year wait times.
