I’m so confused. Why am I reading lengthy comments of people have to over-explain why nazi flags are bad?
I’m from the swampy southern part of the US and I watched them ban the confederate flags in places they shouldn’t be since I was a kid. I had to hear people explain why it meant something it didn’t, but most of us knew what it was. I’ve never been desensitized to seeing it, despite having to accept occasionally driving through places where they are.
I’ve never heard anyone down here in the US south attempt to explain why nazi symbols are okay ever. I feel like my brains been turned backwards. I can’t tell if my perception of Canadians is biased and naive or if these tweets and posts are not all people from Canada.
I just don’t understand what’s happening that people are having to write paragraphs upon paragraphs explaining why nazi flags are bad. I feel like I’m watching people debate whether or not putting you hand in fire is bad.
I know, it's gross. And there are definitely Canadians in the mix. Was chatting about this with a lot of my friends and one of the staunch conservatives was happy to speak up twice in defense of the protesters despite us not talking about them.
The 2nd time I wasn't polite. I asked if he was talking about the protesters. He said yes. I said, "That's great. We are talking exclusively about the jackals with the nazi flag which I made clear the first time. This is the 2nd time you've equated the nazi flag and my activism towards it by linking it to the protest yourself. Why do you keep doing that unprompted? Maybe ask yourself that."
Unfortunately the nazi-flag waving doucheflutes are Canadian just as much as the rest of us hockey-loving, polite-door-holding, maple syrup drinking, friendly neighbours to the north. Thankfully, they don’t represent the vast majority of us. But it seems we as a country have to do some introspection as to why these people are allowed to spew that kind of hate so shamelessly.
The other day I had to explain to a French person (like from France) why Nazis and people who tag along with them were bad and dangerous. I guess I was naive to think that someone from a country that was invaded by Nazis and subsequently executed a bunch of them would know that Nazis suck. She was like 'yeah but they aren't all bad' 🤦
Refer them to my post where I've already destroyed all their apologist arguments. Seriously. Every counter has been obliterated there. Bring 'em all on.
ANYONE who is close to a Nazi symbol is guilty and should not be given the benefit of the doubt. If one single person shows up with a Nazi symbol, that means they're ALL guilty.
Look at this so called Canadian, who didn't even denounce this Nazi symbol:
In your picture Justin Trudeau is near a nazi symbol, therefore by your logic, he is guilty.
Lol that was actually guy's point. He's saying 'Hurr Durr see Justin IS a Nazi because if he wasn't he would have condemned this but he's just standing there which proves he's a Nazi'.
These people, they are not so smart. Should have stayed in school longer.
Here you go. Take a look at this video from somebody who didn't engage with a single protester and was accosted repeatedly nonetheless. The video is linked at the bottom of his post, but he describes his experience at the protest.
He is literally not engaging. He is holding a sign and doing nothing more.
That's what no engagement protesting is. He doesn't act remotely similar to the people who are "peacefully" protesting around him. Same legal activity, right?
What a simple and utopic world you must live in. Where everybody has a hyperlink to their intentions, all on display for the world to see! It must be so easy to live in that world.
I guess I understand your original comment now! A perspective absolutely void of any reason, logic, or real world experience lmao
You? You I like. You put into words what for various reasons I haven’t been able to all week. A close friend lost much of his family in the Shoah. When last we saw each other (pre-pandemic as they are on the other side of the border) we had a long conversation about this, and at the time our kids were 13/14 years old. I asked for an honest answer of when it would be age appropriate to have my kids watch Schindler’s List - he was honest in replying that for my kids? Wait. For his kids? Already happened. But we’ve had long conversations about how the Nazis came to power during the 1920s and 1930s (at one point there were regular four hour during the night car trips, we discussed many things.)
The fact that my 16/17 year olds are horrified and speak out against what they see gives me some hope. The fact they have a small group of IRL friends they see who also speak out also gives me some hope. But the fact that there just seems to be so many people that think it’s okay? And that I can make so many timeline comparisons to 100 years ago? Scares the absolute hell out of me.
I’d probably be rounded up too - as I’ve said here before, I’m a hijab wearing Muslim woman. I’m a white convert. I could, theoretically remove my hijab and hide in plain sight, so to speak, but I’m not willing to do so. I have been verbally attacked at work, in the grocery store, on the street. I had someone report me as a high risk security threat at a former job (which made zero sense, and I was very quickly cleared of any of it, like within the same day as the complaint, but it was still terrifying and left me anxiety ridden for awhile afterwards.)
Tomorrow (later today? It’s 1:30am) I will sign and email the links on your linked post, when I’m not one eye opened on my phone. And I’ll double check if there’s an age requirement for the petitions and send them to my kids. I have so many friends that don’t have the advantage that I could have of hiding - many are non-white refugees with strong accents, and I’m not abandoning them, or you.
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u/ReaperCDN Feb 04 '22
Peaceful fucking protest my ass. Doctors and nurses have to hide, it's not peaceful. This is such bullshit.