The fact that the City of Toronto immediately DESTROYED the statue after taking it down (despite the statue being erected only 17 years earlier as a gay icon at the request of the same gay community organization that was contemporaneously demanding it be removed) signifies that they know what they are doing is wrong and this is simply a purge so that their damage can't be reversed when they are removed from office and the pendulum swings back.
Let's not smear witch hunts by comparison to this insanity. The most common accusations of witchcraft were related to a woman's husband mysteriously dying or disappearing.
"witch" was just a psychotic, criminal woman, oftentimes a murderer, but because men always have been simps, on paper they pretended she was like, doing satan things and stuff, because they didn't want to admit women can be nuts. So in that sense witches were real.
That wasn't not the case in the witch panic events, mass hystarias involving often hundreds of accused (the accused in turn accusing the others under torture with outlandish claims being taken seriously, similar to the Soviet spymania of the 1930s during the Great Purge).
The fact that the City of Toronto immediately DESTROYED the statue after taking it down (despite the statue being erected only 17 years earlier as a gay icon at the request of the same gay community organization that was contemporaneously demanding it be removed) signifies that they know what they are doing is wrong and this is simply a purge so that their damage can't be reversed when they are removed from office and the pendulum swings back.
I could think of a few ways to extract payment from them, but not enough people are willing to do what's necessary.
Let's not smear witch hunts by comparison to this insanity. The most common accusations of witchcraft were related to a woman's husband mysteriously dying or disappearing.
Right after the accusations centered around the fact that the woman claimed to be a witch that could curse your enemies if you gave her money.
"witch" was just a psychotic, criminal woman, oftentimes a murderer, but because men always have been simps, on paper they pretended she was like, doing satan things and stuff, because they didn't want to admit women can be nuts. So in that sense witches were real.
That wasn't not the case in the witch panic events, mass hystarias involving often hundreds of accused (the accused in turn accusing the others under torture with outlandish claims being taken seriously, similar to the Soviet spymania of the 1930s during the Great Purge).
Guy was probably just trying to be PC back then.