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Originally Posted by rousseau
But I've checked out of the conversation (if I ever checked in very much) purely in the interest of self-preservation. My Facebook feed is filled with outraged family and friends (Canadians) hectoring all and sundry to "repeat after me..." about how to think about this while at the same time telling us, without irony, to "shut up and let them speak," and "if you don't support BLM then we are not friends," and remonstrating with us to "check our white privilege," etc. etc. ad nauseam. I've only been on Facebook for a couple months, but I now understand first hand what a powder keg it is. These people brook no dissent, and their voices get shriller and shriller as they agonize over how to appropriate (see what I did there?) the US situation into Canada.
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Perhaps it's just my friends, perhaps it's just living in Quebec where things are (a tad) more detached from these U.S. matters, but I haven't been getting calls to action on this one. Some people are commenting, and some have also changed their profile picture to black or the BLM logo. But so far no one has been trying to recruit or compel me to join the social media movement.