Wednesday, February 16, 2022

USE THE WORD FREEDOM, YOU'RE THE FAR RIGHT

   Mark Steyn:  Canadian truckers are such an obviously genuinely naturally "diverse" group that one would have thought the Canadian media's wholesale support for Jacinda Trudeau's libel of them as Nazi white supremacists would have been too insulting to the intelligence of even CBC viewers. The general vibe of what's happening isn't hard to discover: Convoy supporters play street hockey under the watchful gaze of a fully armed RCMP tactical unit, whose colleagues are busy preemptively destroying private property on private land.
   But physical lockdown seems to have inculcated in the citizenry a psychological lockdown that will be far harder to lift. So, on the CBC's Cross-Country Check-Up (a show once hosted by Rex Murphy), the word "freedom" is now suspect:

Why the word 'freedom' is such a useful rallying cry for protesters

The word has become common among far-right groups, experts say

No comments:

Post a Comment