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Thread: @nationalpost @CTVNews articles pushing @theJagmeetSingh @ElizabethMay @CharlieAngusNDP @DFisman @nenshi @kinsellawarren propagandized idea that people who attend the freedom rallies are either:
* closet white supremacists or
* connected to them
is really about this:
* closet white supremacists or
* connected to them
is really about this:
1/ The terms "nationalist", "alt-right", "nazi", "white supremacist", "white privilege" have been coopted to create an environment of self imposed, censorship.
...weaponized to control populist movements. Who wants to be slapped with a label like this? Not any Canadians I know
...weaponized to control populist movements. Who wants to be slapped with a label like this? Not any Canadians I know
2/ The Hill wrote a great article about it:
"The recent shift to use “white supremacy” as a catchall term for anything out of favour on the left is a blatant partisan ploy." https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/351159-liberals-abandon-logic-to-weaponize-white-supremacy
"The recent shift to use “white supremacy” as a catchall term for anything out of favour on the left is a blatant partisan ploy." https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/351159-liberals-abandon-logic-to-weaponize-white-supremacy
3/
"The progressive commentariat is abandoning the widely understood meaning of white supremacy and repurposing it to placate their angry, anti-Trump base."
"The progressive commentariat is abandoning the widely understood meaning of white supremacy and repurposing it to placate their angry, anti-Trump base."
4/
"They are also creating associations between anything Republican or conservative and white supremacy.
This is defamation by redefinition, and its intention is to frighten and punish opposing voices."
....these articles are meant STOP the growing opposition to lockdowns
"They are also creating associations between anything Republican or conservative and white supremacy.
This is defamation by redefinition, and its intention is to frighten and punish opposing voices."
....these articles are meant STOP the growing opposition to lockdowns
5/
These political hacks lack creativity and are simply implementing the US template for control.
Just keep an eye out for it - once you see it you can never unsee it.
The attacks are relentless and rarely based in fact.
They rely solely on emotion and a naive readership
These political hacks lack creativity and are simply implementing the US template for control.
Just keep an eye out for it - once you see it you can never unsee it.
The attacks are relentless and rarely based in fact.
They rely solely on emotion and a naive readership
6/ So what's the ultimate goal? Power and control.
These things are difficult to exert when you have a legal system with the presumption of innocence....
....BUT but the patriarchy....it protects MEN....but systemic racism....let's throw it all over https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-believe-the-woman-vs-the-presumption-of-innocenceand-kavanaugh-is-caught-in-the-middle
These things are difficult to exert when you have a legal system with the presumption of innocence....
....BUT but the patriarchy....it protects MEN....but systemic racism....let's throw it all over https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-believe-the-woman-vs-the-presumption-of-innocenceand-kavanaugh-is-caught-in-the-middle
7/
...and it's difficult to overrun cities with radical ideologies that most people don't support when you have a community based police force:
But we need to defund the police because of white supremacy, social justice! https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/defunding-the-police-will-actually-make-us-safer/
...and it's difficult to overrun cities with radical ideologies that most people don't support when you have a community based police force:
But we need to defund the police because of white supremacy, social justice! https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/defunding-the-police-will-actually-make-us-safer/
8/
....I mean we have free speech right? That's one of the cornerstones of freedom
But, but not if it hurts someone or god forbid passes on "FAKE" news..... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html
....I mean we have free speech right? That's one of the cornerstones of freedom
But, but not if it hurts someone or god forbid passes on "FAKE" news..... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html
9/
.....and we have the constitution which is entrenched right?
Not fast buddy that document was "pro" slavery https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/how-the-constitution-was-indeed-pro-slavery/406288/
.....and we have the constitution which is entrenched right?
Not fast buddy that document was "pro" slavery https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/how-the-constitution-was-indeed-pro-slavery/406288/
10/
....ok but surely the Declaration of Independence - we call all agree about that!
NOPE those dudes were slave holders https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/founding-fathers-and-slaveholders-72262393/
....ok but surely the Declaration of Independence - we call all agree about that!
NOPE those dudes were slave holders https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/founding-fathers-and-slaveholders-72262393/
12/
Well looks like I am going to go home to think abut this
Not so fast buddy - that house you're going to is still in white privilege too (Psst hint - you're not gonna own it for long anyway bc the World Economic Forum said you'll be happier) https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/01/14/dismantling-white-privilege-starts-with-undoing-racist-housing-policies/
Well looks like I am going to go home to think abut this
Not so fast buddy - that house you're going to is still in white privilege too (Psst hint - you're not gonna own it for long anyway bc the World Economic Forum said you'll be happier) https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/01/14/dismantling-white-privilege-starts-with-undoing-racist-housing-policies/
13/
Then w have techno racism (who knew technology is racist) https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/09/us/techno-racism-explainer-trnd/index.html
Then w have techno racism (who knew technology is racist) https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/09/us/techno-racism-explainer-trnd/index.html
15/
...and math is also racist https://mynorthwest.com/2604518/rantz-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-bankrolls-math-is-racist-lunacy/
...and math is also racist https://mynorthwest.com/2604518/rantz-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-bankrolls-math-is-racist-lunacy/
16/
Anyway I could literally spend all day.
While racism is a problem that needs to be addressed - what theme do you see unfolding in this thread?
I can tell you - the undermining of our rights, legal system, protections and education.
Anyway I could literally spend all day.
While racism is a problem that needs to be addressed - what theme do you see unfolding in this thread?
I can tell you - the undermining of our rights, legal system, protections and education.
17/ If you are part of a small elite group that wants to maintain control over billions of people how do you achieve this?
Identity politics of course. Inspire the masses fight with one another so you can dismantle everything that protects them....to create a feudal system.
Identity politics of course. Inspire the masses fight with one another so you can dismantle everything that protects them....to create a feudal system.
18/ Fighting for your charter rights is NOT fascist, it's not selfish, it's not racist.
It's a REQUIREMENT for passing our freedoms down to our children.
This holds true if you are black, white, brown, muslim, christian, jewish or atheist.
#unitedwewin #dividedwefall
It's a REQUIREMENT for passing our freedoms down to our children.
This holds true if you are black, white, brown, muslim, christian, jewish or atheist.
#unitedwewin #dividedwefall
