
Brussels “Is Proud”: Von der Leyen Celebrates Pride
The European Commission president praised Pride Week as a celebration of identity and community.

The European Commission president praised Pride Week as a celebration of identity and community.

If someone is on the ‘good side,’ threatening rhetoric can be tolerated, political blackmail can be explained, and pressure can be relativized.

While appearing reasonable and necessary when taken individually, these measures collectively build an ecosystem of repression that East Germany’s Stasi could only have dreamt of.

The Commission lists as possible terrorist “motivations” the rejection of European values, anti-LGBT sentiment, or “anti-system ideologies.”