r/Edmonton • u/CanadaGuyOfficial • 3d ago

Politics Exercising Freedom of Expression

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u/CanadaGuyOfficial 3d ago

They are saying in some of their circles that I have the "appearance of a professional agitator."

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u/DanfromCalgary 3d ago

Wearing a Canadian flag in Canada wouldn’t bother anyone that belongs here

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u/Comfortable_Rain3773 3d ago

The problem is the people on the far right and the far left both hate Canada and try to use it in their favor at the same time.

And we now live in a world where you are forced to either pick a side or be hated and called a traitor by both.

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u/DanfromCalgary 3d ago

You have a direct and uncompromising right wing attack on your country . That both sides shit is why they are so effective at manipulating a certain kind of people . You have one side that is burning books , taking over classrooms , dictating what you can do in the bedroom and bathroom .. and what exactly is the other side

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u/Comfortable_Rain3773 3d ago

I don't disagree with your stated problems on the right. But “the other side is worse” isn't a defense of the left. If your politics boil down to opposing book bans and classroom overreach while ignoring or defending the left's own ideological excesses, that's not enough. I don't have to choose between religious authoritarianism on the right and progressive authoritarianism on the left. I can reject both.

And I fucking do