This is why the anti-lockdown/maks protests are falling on deaf ears.
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That's a bunch of gobbledygook to excuse someone waving a neo-nazi flag at a lockdown rally.
Why can't you just condemn these people and agree it's unhelpful to your cause when they show up and wave neo-nazi flags? There's no way to blame the media or big pharma for that.
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THIS GUY WAVING A NEO-NAZI FLAG AT A LOCKDOWN RALLY? WHY ARE YOU TRYING MAKE EXCUSES FOR THIS GUY?
Jesus fucking christ why do you feel the need to go to such lengths to run interference for a guy waving a neo-nazi flag at a lockdown rally?
Help me understand, is this an isolated incident that is being magnified or is this typical of the rallies?
It's a trend.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7512876/extremists-anti-mask-demonstrations-canada/
https://pressprogress.ca/notorious-canadian-neo-nazi-shares-photo-of-friendly-meeting-with-anti-lockdown-barbecue-restaurant-owner/
It's a trend that government media searches for racism then reports on it when discovered, in an attempt to undermine the freedom rallies.
Here's a video of hundreds of demonstrators marching in Toronto back in May when the article you originally posted is from.
I patiently looked intently and couldn't find one racist element.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYDuXLQ-7jw
How would you explain that?
Why are you trying to excuse people who bring white nationalism into lockdown rallies?
I’m not excusing anyone, I’m pointing out that the rallies aren’t hotbeds of racism.
I’ve already said I hate racism once to you already today, how often do you want me to repeat it?
Why are you so committed to spreading Liberal propaganda?
I was going to attend a antilockdown rally to support small businesses being shut down. Nazi flags dont make a good image. I just wanna support local shops, I haven't gotten a lap dance in over a year lol
One has to wonder how much attendance these rallies could muster if not for the lingering fear that if you show up, you might be photographed rallying alongside neo-nazi flags, tiki-torches etc.
And yet still, people just make excuses, blame the media etc etc.
It's as if a large segment of the right are deliberately playing to lose.
Most of this board still can't concede that tiki-torches are a bad look for a lockdown rally FFS.
Why? Why is it so unbelievable that there would be genuine neo-nazis among those anti-lockdown protests?
This forum is strongly anti-lockdown and I'm constantly having to ban racists ere. I literally just caught and banned one right before making this comment. So why would it be any different in a real-life gathering?
You can't just pretend these people don't exist. They do. And they ruin everything - from conservative discussion boards to anti-lockdown protests. The longer you keep ignoring them, the longer they'll keep discrediting your cause.
You have to take a stand and get rid of them if you ever want to salvage your cause's image, rather than just attacking the one guy you do see taking a stand, like you're doing right now.
Really. Not relevant at all?
Charlottesville had a hell of a lot of relevance to Trump.
Those neo-nazi staffers and the CNP offering to merge with the PPC are having a hell of a lot of relevance to Bernier.
These idiots waving neo-nazi flags and tiki torches at anti-lockdown rallies are having a hell of a lot of relevance to the anti-lockdown movement's credibility
You can pretend this isn't the case, but it is.
Bullshit. They give the left someone to point to when the normies say "What white supremacists?" These idiots waving the nazi flags and tiki torches are making the left's "white supremacy" narrative real in the eyes of the public.
https://reportingradicalism.org/en/hate-symbols/movements/modern-racist-symbols/sun-wheel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nordic_Realm_Party