STEVEN TUCKER
Can it ever be legitimate to compare today’s increasingly post-democratic Western ‘democracies’ to Nazi Germany and the USSR, as so many people do these days, in the era of Comrade Sir Keir Starmer? Yes and no simultaneously. On the one hand, there are no death camps or torture centres here, and we aren’t invading Poland. On the other hand, freedom of speech and conscience are clearly under severe and increasing attack.
Many would soothingly say that ours today is as yet more of a soft totalitarianism, a diluted, almost homeopathic-level one, compared to the far more intense horrors of the Nazi and Soviet past. Yet, a soft totalitarianism is still a form of totalitarianism, and it appears to be hardening fast, not least when it comes to the issue of state-enforced LGBT-worship.
One of the most common criticisms of today’s rainbow religion is to call the now omnipresent Gay Pride flag a “rainbow swastika”. All those Premier League footballers forced to wear silly rainbow captains’ armbands (discussed on the Sceptic recently) do look a little like camp commandants of the SS, and I have noticed this very idea appearing in the comments below the line, before nodding sadly in agreement. Such comparisons have been made eloquently before by the former London Mayoral candidate Laurence Fox, and the gay critic of Excessive Gay Pride, Andrew Doyle:
Fundament-al Human Rights
Yet, Hitler did not win the war, and the Soviet Union collapsed, and so democracy prevailed in the West – but only for a while. Westerners may not literally inhabit full-blown military dictatorships today, but neither are we fully free any more. At the moment, I think we’re stuck awkwardly in the halfway-between stage, just as adolescence stands between real childhood and full-blown adulthood. Perhaps the prime awkward teenager in the West today is Justin Trudeau’s pimply and mood-swing-ridden Canada.
It is true that Canada has no death camps or mass graves (except the fake ones imagined by the Left for the nation’s Catholic residential schools). Yet it may be observed nonetheless that all repressive regimes contain generic similarities in terms of how their overlords act towards their despised underlings. Imagine if, in Nazi Germany, a local Mayor had refused to fly a swastika flag, or had acted similarly with a hammer and sickle flag in Soviet Russia. Stasi-type agents would have sent them off to concentration-camp or gulag before you could even count up to 1984.
And now imagine what would happen if a mayor in a Western country today happened to refuse to fly a rainbow flag. Except, you don’t have to imagine, because, as recently reported on this site, such a thing has indeed just happened, in the tiny Canadian town of Emo. In a scene strangely reminiscent of the Asterix books, but with the queers of Canada standing in for the legions of Rome, this tiny and remote outpost of resistance to pink imperial rule has recently been targeted for outside conquest by a Canadian LGBTQ2 organisation called Borderland Pride (the “2” here stands for “2-spirit”, a largely invented indigenous Indian form of pseudo-historical ‘transgenderism’).
The whole furore began back in 2020, when the outfit emailed Emo’s town council demanding it publicly declare June to be Pride Month there, to “show community support and belonging for LGBTQ2 individuals”, even though Borderland Pride had no prior empirical evidence that the whole community actually did “support” such things at all. This was accompanied by a request for the Emo-ites to “email us a copy of your proclamation or resolution once adopted and signed”. Somehow, I’m guessing this request didn’t come with a tick-box option enabling Emo town council to say “no”.
It appears one possible reason Emo’s Mayor, the amazingly named Harold McQuaker, did not agree to fly the flag was because the place did not actually have a spare flagpole to fly it from. That, and the fact that, as McQuaker explained: “There’s no flag being flown for the other side of the coin… there are no flags being flown for the straight people.” According to one summary of the case, Mayor McQuaker also added that “Emo is a good Christian community and that he took in the thoughts of everyone in the area when he made his vote”.
Well, I guess in a truly free society, that would just be freedom of speech, right? To force an entire community to fly a flag they don’t all believe in is more like compelled speech than anything else. Imagine if Christians were trying to force San Francisco City Council to install crucifixes outside all their many gay clubs; the gays would tell them right where to shove them, like in The Exorcist.
A state-backed legal body called the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRT) was called in by Borderland Pride to enforce its will upon the straight Christian kulaks. Predictably, it was all too happy to oblige. In its subsequent judgment, released in late November, the HRT deemed that McQuaker and two of his fellow councillors who also refused to bend over before Rainbow Stalin did not possess the basic hitherto-assumed human right not to fly a random political banner they personally disagreed with.
When Emo’s local council first received Borderlands Pride’s entreaty to fly the flag for Pride Month, being democrats, they put it to a vote. By three votes to two, they voted not to do so. But, deemed by Borderlands Pride to have arrived at the ‘incorrect’ answer, a complaint was then made to the HRT, who also agreed the locals had arrived at the wrong answer – and so demanded they reverse their decision immediately, or else. You know, in the name of democracy.
What is democracy? According to Mayor McQuaker, it is this: “It’s a tough situation. We most certainly in the community have nothing against anybody who lives here or what their thoughts are. Democracy is made up of all different people and the majority rules. Sometimes decisions don’t suit all of the people.”
This particular democratic decision certainly didn’t suit a lawyer called Douglas Judson, Director of Borderland Pride, who has in the past honestly said this as regards his attitudes towards those who say things he considers homophobic:
As a lawyer who does this work, that means I’m going to start taking people’s houses and their vehicles and their toys and draining their bank accounts and garnishing their wages because no one is going to stop behaving this way until there are real consequences. Until there’s real financial pain that attaches to it. We’re going to keep doing that. Hopefully, the message will eventually get through that you have free expression, but that doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.
That’s tolerance for you. Is it really “freedom of expression” if you can later get sued for it?
HRT Therapy
After considering its complaint, the HRT ruled Borderland Pride should be awarded $10,000 from the treasury of the township of Emo for their sins, and a further $5,000 directly from Mayor McQuaker; although Borderland Pride had originally wanted much more from him, so this was really just a generous compromise, all things considered.
Even more generously, Borderland Pride offered to “donate” one third of Emo’s own money back to them (isn’t this how the EU also operates?) as a “gift” to the town’s local library – but only if they agreed to hold a Drag Queen Story Hour event there on a “date of our choosing”.
Just as bad, as a kind of mandatory therapy or moral reconditioning, McQuaker and one of his fellow wrong-thinking officials were also ordered to complete an online HRT-backed ‘Human Rights 101’ course introducing them to the many fascinating facets of the Ontario Human Rights Code and “provide proof of completion” to the Queer Commissars of Borderland Pride within 30 days, or else be on the receiving end of a very severe spanking.
Logically enough, this particular online course is easily available online, here. I went and had a go at finishing it myself. I think I failed. Just in case you think this sounds like some kind of cruel and unusual, Soviet-style punishment, however, please be soothed. It can’t be, as the course documents themselves specifically say so:
What a relief! If the document had not specifically reassured me in writing that “the Code is not meant to punish”, then, if I was Mayor McQuaker, having just been fined $5,000 and legally commanded to complete it by official representatives of the state or else face severe gay wrath, then I may perhaps have erroneously concluded otherwise.
In truth, the mandatory Human Rights 101 session is really much more boring and patronising than it is truly horrific, being made up of simple primary school-level tasks like the following ‘True or False’ quiz:
Here’s another question they left off: “True or False: Canada is still a fully functioning liberal democracy.” I’ll let you answer that one yourself, because, under Gay Gauleiter Trudeau, I really don’t know any more.
False Flag Events
The latest development is that, after various members of the general public denounced their conduct in this matter online and via e-mail, Borderland Pride has now issued an open letter demanding Emo town council issue a public apology for the “hateful rhetoric” of its supporters – words the members of Emo town council did not even say themselves. Two such unsolicited communiques of hurty words read like this:
- “Your intentions of a fully Communist Canada, and imposing your degeneracy on everyone without option, it is not going to work. … Just as you have shown none for years, there will be no sympathy when the tables turn.”
- “You paedophiles are f***ing fascist, Hitler would be proud of your actions… You ‘people’ are filth.”
I guess this is indeed “hateful rhetoric” – just to be abundantly clear, the highly litigious leaders of Borderland Pride are not actually Nazis, Communists or child abusers.
Borderland Pride has a full webpage devoted to its completely out-of-proportion campaign of intolerant tolerance against Emo, featuring photos of the local town hall that supporters have defaced with home-made gay posters. It also carries a wholly unashamed account of Borderland Pride’s 2020 plan to “Pride ambush Emo!”, which involved “taking truckloads of queer cheer” to the town by staging an entirely unasked-for Gay Parade full of out-of-town homosexuals through the place, whether the actual inhabitants themselves actually wanted this to happen or not.
Would it be correct or fair to compare such contemporary state-backed stupidities to the Nazis or Soviets? Again, yes and no. The ultimate aim of all three regimes is the same: to ensure enforced compliance with state-decreed moral and political norms. But the specific methods of doing so, whilst awful, are obviously less physically serious: no thumbscrews or racks here. As methods of Inquisition-like torture go, the Human Rights 101 course is more like Monty Python’s comfy chair and cushions than actual wound-inflicting pincers. Far more painful, I suspect, was Mayor McQuaker’s $5,000 fine.
So, I guess that’s moral progress of a kind from the days of Stalin and Hitler. But, compared to even 20 or so years back, when this kind of thing just didn’t happen, it looks much more like severe moral backsliding to me.
Life in today’s rainbow swastika-ridden West isn’t quite Hitlerite, then, but I think you could certainly say it’s Hitler-Lite.
Steven Tucker is a journalist and the author of over 10 books, the latest being Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction Was Turned Into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets (Pen & Sword/Frontline), which is out now.
This article (Is it Ever Legitimate to Compare a Pride Flag to a Swastika?) was created and published by Daily Sceptic and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Steven Tucker
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