There's always some idiot that shows up to discredit the cause with completely unrelated shit that makes everyone look like a bunch of kooks. In this case the Red Ensign guy.
If you go one of these rallies and see one of these fucking idiots pull out a Red Ensign, or a confederate flag, or a modified 3rd Reich ensign or any of that shit you should take their flag and impolitely tell them to leave unless they want to get their guts stomped out, and then defend yourself if necessary. They are there to hijack your demonstration for the sake of their own stupid causes, and they don't mind destroying your cause's credibility in the process. They are the the enemies of your cause because they are there to discredit it.
Do NOT tolerate these people. The media don't appear to have figured out the whole Red Ensign = white-nationalist dog whistle thing yet, but you can be sure that the moment they do, they'll use it to believably frame you and your anti-lockdown cause as some sort of racist/neo-nazi/whatever movement. And with that they can persuade the public not to hear you out. That's the play that's being made here, and these ethno-nationalist flag people are either very stupid, or they're playing for the other team.
Edit: Don't you people get it? Don't you realize this is why we keep losing? Because our side has become overrun with crazies over the last five years?
"Hurr dur Make Canada White Again!"
"What? What do you mean we didn't win the election? Why do we keep losing to the leftists?!?! It doesn't make any sense! WWG1WGA!".
Fuck.
It's time for the sane people remaining on the right to purge our ranks of the crazies. They're dragging us down and condemning us to perpetual leftist rule. You can't even have an anti-lockdown march without some fucking dipshit pulling out an ethno-nationalist flag. Whether he's doing it sincerely, or he's working for the other team, he needs to be shown the door.
That's not the point. Why display white nationalist dog whistles at an anti-lockdown rally?
There's more ways to destroy your own credibility with the public (who you're supposed to be trying to persuade to join you) than just through violence.
I always feel like anyone doing retarded shit like that has a fairly good chance of being an undercover cop trying to shit disturb or discredit protests on behalf of the gov.
Let's be real though. There are plenty of genuine edgelords out there. Chances are that's exactly what that guy is. They infiltrate the crowd an commandeer the demonstration for their own causes because nobody in the crowd stops them.
That's gotta change. The right can't keep letting their public activities be tainted by these shitheads.
If they quit appearing everywhere and quit infiltrating/infecting every every right-wing/space, I could quit calling them out for it.
Why bring white nationalism into an anti-lockdown protest? Are you trying to alienate the public?
You realize the point of protests is to try and convince the public to agree with you, right? What do you think the public does when they see white nationalist dog-whistles in the crowd? You think that brings them more onto your side or pushes them away?
Why fucking defend people who try to hijack lockdown protests in furtherance of their own racial agenda, at the detriment of the anti-lockdown movement's credibility? Are you seriously that invested in white identitarianism that you're perfectly fine with white identitarians discrediting the anti-lockdown movement?
Ugh.
There's always some idiot that shows up to discredit the cause with completely unrelated shit that makes everyone look like a bunch of kooks. In this case the Red Ensign guy.
The reason edgelords have revived the Red Ensign recently is because it denotes ethnic symbols on it that basically say "Canada = white europeans". That's why you see all the douchey ethno-nationalist groypers waving it these last couple of years.
If you go one of these rallies and see one of these fucking idiots pull out a Red Ensign, or a confederate flag, or a modified 3rd Reich ensign or any of that shit you should take their flag and impolitely tell them to leave unless they want to get their guts stomped out, and then defend yourself if necessary. They are there to hijack your demonstration for the sake of their own stupid causes, and they don't mind destroying your cause's credibility in the process. They are the the enemies of your cause because they are there to discredit it.
Do NOT tolerate these people. The media don't appear to have figured out the whole Red Ensign = white-nationalist dog whistle thing yet, but you can be sure that the moment they do, they'll use it to believably frame you and your anti-lockdown cause as some sort of racist/neo-nazi/whatever movement. And with that they can persuade the public not to hear you out. That's the play that's being made here, and these ethno-nationalist flag people are either very stupid, or they're playing for the other team.
Edit: Don't you people get it? Don't you realize this is why we keep losing? Because our side has become overrun with crazies over the last five years?
Fuck.
It's time for the sane people remaining on the right to purge our ranks of the crazies. They're dragging us down and condemning us to perpetual leftist rule. You can't even have an anti-lockdown march without some fucking dipshit pulling out an ethno-nationalist flag. Whether he's doing it sincerely, or he's working for the other team, he needs to be shown the door.
That's not the point. Why display white nationalist dog whistles at an anti-lockdown rally?
There's more ways to destroy your own credibility with the public (who you're supposed to be trying to persuade to join you) than just through violence.
I always feel like anyone doing retarded shit like that has a fairly good chance of being an undercover cop trying to shit disturb or discredit protests on behalf of the gov.
Let's be real though. There are plenty of genuine edgelords out there. Chances are that's exactly what that guy is. They infiltrate the crowd an commandeer the demonstration for their own causes because nobody in the crowd stops them.
That's gotta change. The right can't keep letting their public activities be tainted by these shitheads.
LOL spotted the guy who waves Red Ensigns at lockdown protests.
Are you suggesting that I made up the claim that racists are using the Red Ensign now?
https://i.imgur.com/6aYvdne.png
I think I agree with you.
We're reactionaries. We like Canada and we like it's flag.
If they quit appearing everywhere and quit infiltrating/infecting every every right-wing/space, I could quit calling them out for it.
Why bring white nationalism into an anti-lockdown protest? Are you trying to alienate the public?
You realize the point of protests is to try and convince the public to agree with you, right? What do you think the public does when they see white nationalist dog-whistles in the crowd? You think that brings them more onto your side or pushes them away?
Why fucking defend people who try to hijack lockdown protests in furtherance of their own racial agenda, at the detriment of the anti-lockdown movement's credibility? Are you seriously that invested in white identitarianism that you're perfectly fine with white identitarians discrediting the anti-lockdown movement?
Do you have ANY capacity for rational thought whatsoever?
I'm going to explain this as simply as possible. See if you can follow:
The point of lockdown protests is to convince the public to join you in opposing the lockdowns, yes?
FACT: The vast, vast majority of the public oppose white nationalism far more than they oppose the lockdowns.
So if at your lockdown protest you signal to the public "We're white nationalists!", do you think that will help your cause, or hurt your cause?
You would have to be fucking retarded to not understand this.
The Red Ensign is ethnically oriented, whether you like it or not.
That's why the white nationalists have appropriated it.
Excet the red ensign actually is a symbol widely used by white nationalists. Are you seriously just going to ignore that fact?
So the question remains...
WHY BRING YOUR TOXIC RACE POLTICS INTO A FUCKING ANTI-LOCKDOWN MARCH?
WHO IS THAT MEANT TO HELP AND HOW?