Michael Knowles
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That stands for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit
Two-spirit, which is a term that they say it's an indigenous native term going back centuries and millennia.
It actually was invented by a lesbian activist in 1990.
And she said that the term came to her in a dream.
So it has no connection really whatsoever to ancient indigenous communities.
Anyway, on top of that, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, and asexual plus people.
So the addition here, it's not just the weird sex stuff, it's the missing and murdered part.
Missing and murdered.
So not only have these people been oppressed by the bathroom laws and the girls' volleyball team rules, no, they're also now being murdered and kidnapped.
The libs have taken this up, some extreme libs like this member of parliament, and blamed colonialism for this.
They've said, you know, it's colonialism, it's racism, it's prejudice, it's the patriarchy that is attacking the MMQPLB, whatever.
But I looked it up because that didn't sound right to me.
And it turns out that when you try to figure out who is murdering these people, 80 to 86% of the time, the people doing the murdering are intimate partners, spouses, family members, and acquaintances.
In other words, the people who are murdering the MMIWG2 LGBTQQIA people are the MMIWG2 LGBTQQIA people.
That's who's doing it, which has always been the case.
There was this meme some years ago, like three or four years ago, that said, you know,
Trans women of color are being murdered around this country.
And then you look who they're being murdered by, and they're being murdered by other LGBTQ LMNOP people.
Most of them are prostitutes and drug addicts who are being killed in criminal acts by other people of the same community.
Has nothing to do with the other communities.