From Sue-Ann Levy’s latest, discussing Councillor James Pasternak’s desire to rewrite Toronto’s anti-discrimination policy:
Pasternak said he’s asked the new anti-discrimination policy ensures “no public funds or city-permitted space†is given to a group involved in Israeli Apartheid.
via No hatred at Pride this year | Columnists | Opinion | Toronto Sun.
I would think Queers Against Israeli Apartheid would very much support such a policy.
On a serious note: Levy’s column is problematic — it always is — echoing the repeated falsehood that the City of Toronto could withhold this year’s Pride funding if QuAIA did march (on what grounds?), and pushing the viewpoint that it would be simple for Toronto to craft an anti-discrimination policy that would rule out groups like QuAIA.
But she ends with a quick appeal to Mayor Rob Ford, asking him to march in this year’s Pride parade. To “be the mayor of all the people.”
Levy is never more sympathetic than when she does stuff like that. That she does so while followed by a Toronto Sun comment section that tells her to “Keep convincing yourself’s your normal and one day you’ll believe it but it won’t make it true [sic]” Â and to “Give it a rest, dyke” makes her stand all the more appealing.
Still, though, she’s wrong about almost everything else almost all of the time.
Tags: james pasternak, Pride, quaia, sue-ann levy