Why does the media call hate rallies protests?
@QueerInTheCountry Because they are. The word "protest" doesn't have an inherent positive connotation. Assholes can protest equality just as a toddler can protest eating vegetables.
@QueerInTheCountry I disagree. Using hyperbolic or subjective language in reporting makes many people take it *less* seriously, not more. The job of the news is to present facts and let us draw our own conclusions, not to push the conclusions on us.
@LouisIngenthron That's all fine and well. I don't consider it hyperbolic to call it a hate rally when the pride flag is being vandalized, slurs to describe lgbtq people are being shouted in their faces, and they are fighting to strip LGBTQ people of their identity, and erase our existence, but you do you.
It's time to call things what they are. If this was happening to an ethnic group, I would also consider this to be a hate rally. The media is complicit in letting fascists frame things.
@LouisIngenthron Perhaps. But calling them hate rallies, which they were... I'm referring to protests all across Canada against LGBTQ rights... Would frame things more clearly for people on the sidelines.