Dennis Prager: LGBTQ+ “Pride” Is Totalitarian

The New York Rangers National Hockey League’s (NHL) team pulled off something amazing on Saturday night. Although LGBTQ attire was not allowed, the team did wear it. “Pride” During pregame warmups, no one on the team wore jerseys.

Another example of LGBTQ+ defiance is this recent example “Pride” The NHL jersey demands — which are run by people as cowardly as those who manage Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association — were made by Ivan Provorov, a player for Philadelphia Flyers. He refused to wear a jersey. “Pride” jersey 10 days prior.

Fox News reports:

“Provorov refused to participate in pregame warmups where players wore Pride-themed jerseys and wielded hockey sticks wrapped in rainbow Pride tape. ‘I respect everyone,’ he told reporters after they won the actual game against the Anaheim Ducks. ‘I respect everybody’s choices. My choice is to stay true to myself and my religion.'”

Provorov is Russian Orthodox. (Question: Has one Protestant or Catholic NHL hockey player refused to wear a “Pride” jersey?)

Maybe the New York Rangers were aware of how much support Provorov received. “Multiple news outlets including the Post Millennial, OutKick and Washington Examiner have since reported that the Philadelphia Flyers Provorov jerseys have been selling out in multiple stores online.”

The Flyers, and apparently the Rangers, learned the truth about their supporters: While most of them (and presumably Americans and Canadians) don’t wish to discriminate against LGBTQ+, they don’t want their teams going public with their views. “Pride” For those who identify as LGBTQ+.

This mirrors the society in general. The vast majority of Americans believe that LGBTQ+ individuals should be tolerated, but not in organizations that show pride in them.

Why is it so?

Because “Pride” It is not about tolerance. “Pride” It is totalitarian.

Tolerance can be defined as a person’s behavior. “Pride” It is all about thought.

There are laws that govern tolerance but not pride. Even if there were such laws, most people would realize that they would fall under the purview of thought control.

Many people cannot comprehend the totalitarian nature LGBTQ+ “Pride.” But they sense it. Provorov’s Flyers jersey is the best-selling. Contrary to what almost every North American sports writer says (which is a sheeplike group, there are many), LGBTQ+ jerseys, nights and hockey sticks, lighting, and other displays of obsequiousness are not opposed by people because they hate gays. They feel that it is totalitarian and that their teams are being forced to adopt groupthink.

The Left chose the term because of this. “pride” And not “tolerance” — “pride” It’s about thinking. Leftism, unlike conservatism and liberalism, is totalitarian. To put it another way, totalitarianism can control thought and speech.

There is only one difference between the American Left (and communist totalitarianism): it has more opportunity. All leftists want control over speech and thought. It is not enough to treat homosexuals in your everyday life the same way you treat heterosexuals. You need to go even further. Express yourself. “pride” Gays and lesbians – and not just gays or lesbians – but the bisexual, the transgender, and the “queer” The nonbinary. It is not enough to say, you must also do. think, “I am proud of people who consider themselves neither male nor female” As if mental illness were a success.

Also, it is important to refrain from saying or thinking that having a mother/father is better for children, or that having one man married with one woman is better for society. It is important to not express reservations about teachers not calling students. “boys and girls”; about “drag queen story hours” For 5-year-olds. Or about giving hormone blocking drugs to children.

Next time you read about “thought control” North Korea: North Korea’s thought control is different “Pride” Days and nights spent at sporting events and with the Left are limited by degrees. Like the Left in North Korea and America, the Left demands that you think, not just behave.