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Ray's avatar

Both sides need to police their increasingly growing and vocal extremists. Unfortunately, today’s incentive structure is for the politicians and media to pander to their extremist voters and audiences, rather than to banish them to outer darkness. Rational and moderate people are increasingly incentivized to stay quiet and keep their heads down.

We are in for very troubling times.

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Darcy Hickson's avatar

I’m not looking for a verbal fire fight with Ms. Gerson, but the media have an obsession with looking at protest movements on the right side of the spectrum for ANY sign of bigotry and hatred. And guess what, look hard enough and the bigots will be found. Usually right out in plain view, there is no hiding behind anyone for a creep waving a nasty flag or placard. They WANT the attention to embarrass organizers and to flaunt their extreme ignorance by accessing someone else’s hard work.

Who’s to say that some of these people aren’t plants? Professional agitators who lurk in the group just long enough for discovery and then vanish. A Nazi flag made ONE brief, very visible, high elevation appearance at the Freedom Convoy. Just long enough for CBC to capture the image and then the outrageous flag disappeared, never to be seen again. The Convoy organizers denounced the flag and the phantom person carrying it, but the damage was done.

In todays antisemitic climate there are many progressive activists who are showing their true colours. Now we know where they stand and it isn’t a good look. As the author of this article explains, moderate progressives have an obligation to denounce these people and their policies. A cancellation contest on the left seems appropriate.

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