the newly re-elected prime minister wore blackface for half of his 20s and early 30s and said 'oops' and it was no big deal and most canadians re-elected him with no issue
but yo complaining about people not respecting those who died while fighting off national-socialism and other evils is the worst

what a hot take

racists don't think of themselves as racists

indeed

Lol except the difference is politicians get away with a lot of things, and it's not about people not respect those that died. How can you expect new immigrants to even know about it? I bet most of the immigrants have no fucking clue what the poppy is for.if Don didn't specifically target them, and just said that everyone should respect it, then it wouldn't be an issue or anything

This post was edited by Secksii on Nov 19 2019 09:56pm

that's kinda what Don Cherry was trying to get at

saw that some schools didn't even pause for a moment of silence at 11am

lol that's not even the problem, it's just bullshit dogwhistling to cry about non-white people existing. You go outside and not many "old stock Canadians" wear poppies either. Because no one is obliged to. It's just a fucking small non-judgmental gesture. But dinosaurs and boars love grilling people who look like "immigrants" because it's a way to publicly bully and unload frustrations on people who won't bite back. What the fuck are even immigrants supposed to respond to all the mouthbreathers non-ironically supporting a senile racist rant? It only takes one Asian or brown person for the whole lot to be Canada-hating, welfare-leeching foreigners for not wearing a poppy or otherwise not conforming to some fucking nonsensical test of superficial patriotism.The concept that you have to constantly prove yourself "Canadian" even if all you know is Canada is really really fucked up and I wish people would take a fucking step back to think about it, instead of reveling on putting people down for no reason. And that's not even touching on the fact all of this came exclusively from Don's increasingly demented mind, so for all we know he just read a The Rebel article about evil un-Canadian immigrants and decided to daydream about it, not even having the courtesy of keeping track of what he saw in his head.

This post was edited by Hizkuntza on Nov 19 2019 10:18pm

Well written, patriotism as we are seeing it today is gross anyway.