A Patron of Economic Update asks: "I would appreciate hearing your thoughts about how this Canadian Truckers movement aligns with the international workers' ...
This is what culture war shit is. It's taking the worst aspects of individual members of a group (which I'm not arguing aren't overrepresented in this group) and then ascribing that property to most or all of a group. That way you get to feel like a the good guy by hating them all instead of ever engaging.
Dude everybody hates people who spew vitriol, but that's not what these protests are about and it definitely doesn't represent a meaningful amount of the protest. Dan put it well on Bottlemen when he saud the primary motivation for most of them is "I bet it makes you outraged that I'm here." Like thats what we're dealing with.
Yes everybody saw the one photo of the one flag that was posted everywhere. That's not what the protests are about, and call me crazy but I think the reason there is only one photo I've seen posted 25 times by libs trying to convince Canadians this is 1/6 is because it was only out for like a few seconds. That's not what the protests are like. They fly Canadian flags. They all do.
This is what culture war shit is. It's taking the worst aspects of individual members of a group (which I'm not arguing aren't overrepresented in this group) and then ascribing that property to most or all of a group. That way you get to feel like a the good guy by hating them all instead of ever engaging.
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Dude everybody hates people who spew vitriol, but that's not what these protests are about and it definitely doesn't represent a meaningful amount of the protest. Dan put it well on Bottlemen when he saud the primary motivation for most of them is "I bet it makes you outraged that I'm here." Like thats what we're dealing with.
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This. They're not condemning the nazis and throwing them out, which means they're accepting them.
If you go into a bar and you see 5 people sitting next to a nazi laughing and charting it up, you have a table with 6 nazis.
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I mean, they have a completely different media diet than we do. I'm not sure why you think they'd be convinced there are nazis on their ranks.
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You really have no idea what these protests are like do you?
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Yes everybody saw the one photo of the one flag that was posted everywhere. That's not what the protests are about, and call me crazy but I think the reason there is only one photo I've seen posted 25 times by libs trying to convince Canadians this is 1/6 is because it was only out for like a few seconds. That's not what the protests are like. They fly Canadian flags. They all do.
The ones with nazi flags would be a start.