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City of Peterborough grants permit to Neo-Nazis for a rally Saturday in public square
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It'll be like the one in Vancouver where nobody shows up, except TONS of people peacefully counter-demonstrating.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/anti-racism-rally-vancouver-city-hall-1.4253117
... hopefully
Astral/H3X
Member
What POSSIBLE excuse could they possibly have in Canada?
Racism doesn't stop at the border.
You can be the target audience for Nazi/Confederate ideologies without living in the South.
You can go to a lot of smaller and rural places in Canada and see that shit.
When I was growing up as a kid in northern Ontario, I just assumed it was a symbol of rural or redneck pride.
When I lived in Nunavut, I worked with a guy from New Brunswick who wore a Confederate Flag hat every single day. I got the impression that flaunting that is not uncommon in his hometown.
Killer Queen
Banned
Looking through his twitter it looks like no one really pays this dude any mind, so I doubt many people will be showing up.
BlazinSkatinAxel
Member
Providence rights!
Shadow Puppetry
Member
Staffs position is that its a peaceful protest but he (Goudreau) is not a peaceful person, Therrien said.
How did that worked out in Charlottesville?
How did that worked out in Charlottesville?
DorkLord54
Member
While most people remember the contributions Canadian volunteers gave to the Union during the Civil War (in fact, the composer of O Canada, Calixa Lavallée, served in the Union band), some Canucks did join the Confederate side as volunteers.
Alternatively (and more likely), the Traitor flag is pretty much a universal symbol in Anglo-America for redneck types and racist shitbirds.
Switch Back 9
a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
This is all it boils down to really.
Skellig Gra
Member
Make Hosers Take Off Again
michaelius
Banned
Confederation square? Is that dedicated to some event in history of Canada or to Confederate States of America ?
Rock And Roll
Member
Goddamn it I'm at a wedding this weekend. I want to crash this so bad. This kind of stupidity has no place anywhere.
DorkLord54
Member
It's a memorial to when Canada "confederated" (became the country it is today sans Newfoundland) in 1867, it has nothing to do with the Anerican Civil War.
mullet2000
Member
Unrelated to the US. Confederation is when the country officially came to be.
Barrel Cannon
Member
Jeez, I sometimes forget how many racists are so close to home. I'm like an hour away from there. Shame that there are so many uncultured creeps living there. There are so many great people I know from that city too, and I'd hate to be associated with neo-nazis
PeskyToaster
Member
Let 'em protest and then let 'em get surrounded by 10 times more counter-protesters.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
I thought this was Peterborough New Hampshire at first
Barrel Cannon
Member
Just racist edglords trying to be me-to's to their racist american counterparts
I wanna crash this too as well just to video tape all the stupidity to catch anything dumb they do/say and report it.
eBay Huckster
Member
this wiki article on Canadian Confederation might help
tl;dr: refers to July 1, 1867, when Ontario and Quebec (formerly the Province of Canada), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick "confederated" into the Dominion of Canada
Impeccable
Member
Lets see the turnout, lol
There are many "back off government" signs on land. So it might tie into "freedom vs. government" stuff. I also think it's just associated with redneck culture, country culture, hunting, dukes' of hazard type stuff. Edit. I should have said that many of the confederate flag people are racist. That I know.
If I saw a confederate flag around these parts I wouldn't necessarily jump to the conclusion that the person is a racist. My neighbour across the street is really into hunting and stuff, a real redneck, but lives across and beside 2 black families and an indian family. That guy has done a lot for these families, especially after a serious tragedy struck one of them. I know that's going down "but my friend is black!" territory, but I really don't think he's racist.
Professor Renegade
Banned
Utter bullshit that a permit was even granted in the first place. Hope those counter protesters drive them out.
FrankCanada97
Roughly the size of a baaaaaarge
We don't directly elect the prime minister in Canada. We vote for MP's in different ridings and whichever party has the most ridings, gets to govern. The leader of the winning party gets to be prime minister. The conservsative leader is just another Stephen Harper, and I doubt there is anyone who would label him a white supremacist.
Well that's something, at least. I remember reading troubling things about some conservative politicians, such as Kelly Leitch. I'll be keeping a close eye on the 2019 election for sure.
That being said there will definitely be racist candidates running as independents in some ridings. Not that any of them will win, but it does happen.
DeathbyCheerios
Member
The good thing about it is say we had Trump here. If he went off the deep end the party wanted him out...they could get him out and still be in power.
Good on them for basically hanging a sign outside their door that screams "I'm just a racist with no pretense of history or any of those other dog whistles"
The thing is, with the way party politics work here, what you really need to keep an eye on is what happens right after the 2019 election.
Basically when they pick a leader, that determines the direction of the party for the next several years. So people like Kellie Lietch were rejected by Conservative voters already, when the Conservatives picked their current leader Andrew Scheer.
Scheer is a right-wing theocratic creep, for sure, but he isn't quite alt-right. He's just the same kind of mom jeans wearing supply-side psycho that the Conservatives have been selecting for decades.
But after Scheer loses, he's going to get replaced. And that will be the time for a straight up white supremacist to try and take over the party.
ComputerBlue
Member
I lived in Peterborough for a couple years, the place is riddled with racist trash. The city and surrounding areas were beautiful, the people, not so much.
Obviously not all of them, but plenty enough.
Obviously not all of them, but plenty enough.
Mechanized
Member
Are you fucking for real right now? White supremacists don't have a "controversial" view. They have a racist, ignorant, hate filled view that is destructive to modern society and specifically incites acts of violence and perpetuates hate toward people of color. Fuck these fuckers and fuck you for your enabling bullshit.
fortunately here in Canada we dispensed with childish and reductive ideas like free speech absolutism
that's more of a thing for americans who are taught as children to worship a mediocre and obsolete piece of political theory written by slaveowning oligarchs
You seriously think the suppression, if not outright elimination of minority and marginalized voices, is simply "controversial"?
My right to exist, the rights of a queer individual, the rights of any person of color; these are not up for fucking debate.
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