Workers don’t stand together anymore
It used to be that when one group of workers were being targeted by company owners, other workers would stand in solidarity with them.
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Not unfriending people is a privilege
About a year or so ago, I wrote a Facebook post where I mentioned that I was unhiding all the people and pages that I had previously hidden, that I was unsanitizing my own news feed, unsiloing it.
I’ve been contemplating that position recently. I’m still doing this, trying to expose myself to different viewpoints and trying to not dismiss viewpoints contrary to my own.
However.
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Why I don’t catcall women
You know, I have no memories of catcalling women or sexually propositioning women. I know now that these things are wrong, but I didn’t always know that.
I used to think it was acceptable. Society and my peers taught me that. But for some reason, I’ve never done it.
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Prayer, scriptures, and FHE don’t keep kids in the church
I used to believe that if families prayed daily together, read scriptures daily together, and held family home evening weekly together, it’d keep the children in the church.
I don’t believe that anymore.
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Tax cuts don’t lead to indirect job growth either.
I’ve been engaging with conservatives recently when they’ve been claiming that tax breaks lead to more jobs.
As I’ve shown them evidence that companies who receive tax breaks don’t hire more people when compared to hiring prior to the tax break, I’ve noticed an interesting trend: they start shifting the goalposts. Their claim moves to one of indirect job creation.
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Tax cuts don’t create more jobs
Conservatives love it when corporations make money. They love it even more when it’s a result of lower taxes.
They rationalize lower corporate taxes by claiming that it will lead to more jobs and indirectly to more government revenue.
Except that’s just a myth.
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Conservative governments can’t balance budgets
Don’t believe conservatives when they tell you that Justin Trudeau is piling debt onto Canadians. I mean, he is, but not in the way conservatives make it seem. 75% of Canada’s 2017–18 debt was created by only 2 prime minsters: Mulroney & Harper. Continue reading Conservative governments can’t balance budgets
How my mum gives me hope
I was reorganizing my Google Drive folders back in February and came across this old writeup I did for a book. I don’t even remember writing it, nor do I remember the request for the writeup. When I reread it, I thought I’d create a post out of it and schedule it for Mother’s Day. I wrote it in 2011.
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Mormons love to share only certain gay stories
A little over two years ago, LDS commentator Greg Trimble wrote an article entitled “The Place For Gays Inside The Mormon Church”. In it, Greg shares an experience he had with one gay man—yes, just one—who believed that there’s a place for gay people in the LDS church.
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LDS rhetoric pushes LGBTQ members out
Our third trans child approached us last month to say that they no longer want to attend church and no longer believe its teachings.
Half of our children now are estranged from the church. Each of them is trans. I don’t consider this a coincidence.
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