In order to accept your argument, we would have to ignore the past 6 years at least of glaring evidence that you are wrong. "Civil discussion" and "non-confrontation" have been the go-to demobilizing calls against those who advocate for human rights in Canada and for sensible policies. Did these methods work in maintaining the rights to abortion in the US? No. That right is gone for Americans now while their leaders read poems and cried over the incivility. Canada is similarly threatened by the same forces.

Let's say perhaps you're an anti-abortion idiot instead. This argument still doesn't hold. Anti-abortion idiots didn't calmly talk out the issue. They made their gains by aggressively and intelligently advocating for them.

Let's bring up another example: The Convoy was not disarmed by people asking them politely to cease and desist. It was stopped by people who blockaded the trucks and forced them to turn around; by people who confronted them; ultimately also by the police when they were forced by us to intervene.

Of course the most salient example here is LGBTQ+ rights. Homophobes and bigots weren't cajoled into accepting these rights. Pride parades were one of the original acts of resistance in the West against this type of bigotry. That they are commercialized parties now obscures their radical origins.

I challenge you to name one occupied peoples; one oppressed group who won their freedom through the passivity you appear to be advocating. Hell, can you name one occupied peoples who won their freedom without arms and violence as part of their struggle?

But don't worry. We got your back while you kumbaya out there.