Respect the flag.
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To be fair, our Canadian flag is plain jane af. Red, white, red and a red maple leaf. WTF? The Red Ensign was way better.
Out of all the things to represent our country, A FUCKING LEAF?!
I think the Libs getting rid of the Red Ensign was the tippy top of the Marxist slippery slope in this country. They replaced our real flag, which was full of history, meaning, and symbolism, with trite, meaningless garbage. They've been shovelling that same Marxist garbage into every public and cultural institution in this country ever since.
The left coming out of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s in North America is mostly preoccupied with social issues rather than economic. If Karl Marx was alive today, he would speak out against social justice warriors. The USSR would throw SJWs into the gulag. Which is ironic considering how SJWs fantasize about throwing their political enemies into the gulag. I pointed out once on a leftist sub in reddit that Karl Marx spoke out against Irish immigrants undercutting English workers in the 19th century and taking their jobs and I got banned. Do I need to bring up quotes from Che Guevara about black and indigenous people? And Che and Fidel wasn't all that long ago. In fact Fidel died a few years ago.
Marxism was not a racially egalitarian, pro-LGBT, pro-feminist, etc. ideology in its original form. It got bastardized later in the 1960s.
Fair points. I'm using the term "Marxist" in the vernacular sense, inaccurate as that may be. Care to suggest a better adjective?
It's hard for me to find an appropriate label for these people other than social justice warrior (SJW) or wokescold. Something of that nature. Maybe radlib (radical liberal). Which is a label that actually originated from old-school Marxist-Leninists online who are critical of identity politics (ie. BIPOC, LGBT, feminist pandering, etc.) It's bad enough that the label "liberal" has been perverted. I'm in my mid-30s. And I've always thought of myself as a liberal until the SJWs took over liberal discourse. When I first started becoming political in my teens, my attitude towards life was live and let life. And I felt that conservatives need to lighten up man. Now I feel that it's the "liberals" who need to lighten up. I didn't change. Liberalism changed. Liberalism morphed into something that is definitely not your daddy's liberalism or grand daddy's liberalism.