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Originally Posted by Jimmy Nimby
The point I’m trying to make transcends borders. I’m pointing to ideological divisions and the resulting hypocrisy when it comes to tolerance for disruptive activism. On principle, if you’re tolerant of say the blm violence in the 2020 US protests yet outraged by the nuisance of the trucker protest in Canada you’re being an intellectually lazy hypocrite. So yes, I’ll bet you any money there will be a disruptive radical left wing protest on the horizon somewhere and I bet there will be Canadians who go into full ideological echo chamber mode regardless of the location.
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Point taken, people are always more tolerant of protests that align with their own principles. But I do think that all protests are not created equally, and this protest is demonstrably different from anything we've seen before in Canada, both in duration and the level of harassment of regular people going about their business (which I've seen firsthand in the Glebe, and we are getting a fraction of what Centretown is). People are right to be more tolerant of a peaceful occupation of a park (for example) than whatever this is.
I think the BLM protests are a bit of a strawman in the sense that it's hard to compare someone's reaction to reports of protests taking place in another country to something that directly affects them. The current occupation is enraging people in this city across the political spectrum.