Which leads me to another thing. Borderland Pride co-chair and director Douglas W. Judson has stated, “Mayor McQuaker’s role requires that he represent everyone in the community, including 2SLGBTQIA+ people.” But this is incorrect. No mayor’s role is to represent every single person in their jurisdiction. Not only is this impossible, it’s just not wise. What about the Local Pedophile Society? What about the Make Soup from Puppy Spleens Society? What about the Demolishing of Heritage Properties Society? So Judson’s premise, uttered as a universal truth, is false; not everyone's concerns in a community should be represented.

Now we can ask the question, should the concerns of “2SLGBTQIA+ people” in particular be represented? Let’s see — should an anti-family, anti-biology, perpetually divisive, marxist entity be something mayor’s should be celebrating?

For example, Dawson concludes, “I find this remark demeaning and disparaging.” Do you? She mentions, “The township is acting dismissive and demonstrating a lack of understanding.” Are they? Who are you to determine what is demeaning and disparaging? What if Emo finds your attempts to railroad their municipal autonomy demeaning and disparaging? And what if pride politics deserve to be demeaned and disparaged? And in what way can the endlessly moldable Human Rights Code function as any sort of objective metric to such things?

We saw similar tactics at work during the freedom convoy. People felt threatened. But feelings don’t determine threats. That’s why we don’t put OCD sufferers in charge of pandemic preparedness committees. When we let feelings determine threats, and consequently, response, we are engaging in what some have called, “toxic empathy.” On this, Allie Beth Stuckey states, "Empathy has become a tool of manipulation by left-wing activists who bully people into believing that they must adopt progressive positions to be loving.”

See, it doesn’t matter to Borderland Pride that McQuaker is an experienced, well-respected, father and grandfather. The only thing that matters is that he is a fly in the rainbow ointment. He is a glitch in the matrix. He is the flaw in the machine.