@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca to British Columbia@lemmy.caEnglish • 29 days agoCourtenay-Comox Conservative candidate drops out after social-media posts surfacewww.timescolonist.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up139arrow-down1external-linkCourtenay-Comox Conservative candidate drops out after social-media posts surfacewww.timescolonist.com@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca to British Columbia@lemmy.caEnglish • 29 days agomessage-square6fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink12•29 days agoMaybe we’ll be saved by this upcoming generations desire to post everything including hateful content like this. By the time they realize what it means, their true colors will be permanently recorded and we can pressure them out like this. The only way you get by what this guy did is to have years of follow up history showing they’ve moved past it. Narrator They haven’t.
minus-square@thisbenzingringlinkEnglish1•29 days agoHopefully he does move past it by becoming a legitimate ally of his local lgbt groups
minus-square@NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•29 days agoThat is always the hope. An event like this can often be enough to reasses your values. But the choice you make at this point is probably going to be a long standing, unlikely to change anytime soon one.
minus-square@SamuelRJankis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•29 days ago The only way you get by what this guy did is to have years of follow up history showing they’ve moved past it. Hard to have years of anything when he last did it a year ago.
minus-square@NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•28 days agoWell then, let’s check back in a decade
Maybe we’ll be saved by this upcoming generations desire to post everything including hateful content like this.
By the time they realize what it means, their true colors will be permanently recorded and we can pressure them out like this.
The only way you get by what this guy did is to have years of follow up history showing they’ve moved past it.
Narrator They haven’t.
Hopefully he does move past it by becoming a legitimate ally of his local lgbt groups
That is always the hope.
An event like this can often be enough to reasses your values.
But the choice you make at this point is probably going to be a long standing, unlikely to change anytime soon one.
Hard to have years of anything when he last did it a year ago.
Well then, let’s check back in a decade