A common right-wing response to protesters tearing down the John A. Macdonald statue is to claim that "those same protesters wouldn't tear down a Pierre Trudeau statue." Two strange assumptions are being made here. First, it assumes that the protestors are liberal or... (1/5)
somehow identify with P.E.T. These protesters are almost certainly more leftist than average liberals and would gleefully tear down a P.E.T statue. Second, these right-wingers reveal their assumption that everyone thinks like they do, putting party ahead of policy... (2/5)
These conservatives see politics and activism as team sports in which the left is attacking the founding father of the conservative team. "You'd never treat your own team this way," they weep. The most fabulous thing about today's leftists is that they care about POLICY... (3/5)
The left recognizes that those in power have failed us. That recognition has lead the left to demand action on priorities, not power for parties. The right looks for hypocrisies that arise from the disparities between what protesters do and politicians say/have said... (4/5)
The thing is, leftists don't conform to what politicians say. The left demands politicians represent them by champion leftist policy. But the right can't understand that because we are fighting for people's lives and dignity, while the right is picking teams in gym class. (5/5)
*standard acknowledgement that I have made generalizations about the the right, liberals, and leftists*
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