- 90 percent of Canada's truckers are vaccinated, so why are you using working class as a substitute for protestor, then using that to call this class warfare?
- Don't you think working class people will care most about this list? The people with the most time to scour lists and make angry tweets probably most likely aren't UHNW individuals...
- Don't you see the irony is claiming authoritarianism has landed under the guise of morality, then assigning morality based on party orientation? Somehow painting the right as working class victims, and the left as upper class aggressors?
> then assigning morality based on party orientation? Somehow painting the right as working class victims, and the left as upper class aggressors?
Actually you read that into that based on your own biases. I was deliberate _not_ to do this specifically. The establishment media and government mouthpieces, both left and right, have demonized the shit out of this protest and painted them as nazis, terrorists or any other fear word they can get away with.
Truly independent journalists have been painting a very different picture by doing the things that traditional media won't do: long form interviews with protestors and ordinary Ottawans.
I stated from the beginning that this is a class issue and not a left/right one. You in your very first reply said "being objective here" and then went on some screed about how this is obviously left wing vs right wing politics.
Then I stated that if you look at the only actual interviews being done with these people and hear them in their own words they say that this is not a left wing vs right wing thing here and you say that I'm commenting in bad faith.
Not anywhere did I tell you to refer to Fox News as a source for content. You picked that source entirely on your own to suit your argument. As myself and others have mentioned in the thread, the only long form interviews being done with these people are being done by independent journalists on youtube.
> I stated from the beginning that this is a class issue and not a left/right one.
And you are blatantly wrong. You omitted mentioning left/right when talking about a conservative protest, that does not change the fact it's a conservative protest.
You're certainly free to keep floundering about this but it won't change the simple reality:
Freedom Convoy is a largely conservative protest, as it is largely speaking to conservative talking points.
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That doesn't mean every person there is a conservative, it does not mean being against vaccine mandates makes you a conservative, it simply means the people most represented by the tenants of the convoy are conservatives.
You are commenting in bad faith because either you don't know enough about this subject to realize it's a right-oriented movement... or you're aware of this but intentionally trying to bury that fact to force a pretty unrelated diatribe.
> Not anywhere did I tell you to refer to Fox News as a source for content
You tried to blame my source of news for a take not at all tied to news articles, which was ridiculous.
To humor you I chose one that was opposite of the ones you mentioned, the source of news does not change the reality that this is a conservative movement.
I'm pretty sure OP is explicitly NOT assigning/painting left and right, but rather saying with the "pulled back the veil of opposition" comment that left vs right is an illusion/artifice, and the struggle is actually upper vs lower class.
I'm confused, aren't the protestors and their entire cause very openly right leaning?
Or am I getting browbeaten for making the connection the specific working class are in fact right leaning...
OP didn't write their comment in a vacuum. Can we not pretend that we're unable to apply context, like a massive conservative movement sparked by conservative anti vaxx sentiment.
Patronizing sign offs like "Okay, buddy" are surely a sign of a strong argument.
As are showing off facts that are completely baseless.
For example, sounds like you confused the numbers for vaccination from the CTA about all truckers? Since the certainly no rigorous numbers specific to the protestors...
The CTA is the largest organization of truckers and yet...
“CTA believes such actions — especially those that interfere with public safety — are not how disagreements with government policies should be expressed.”
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Kudos though, you totally pulled a fast one on dang acting like this was "about both sides"
Unfortunately you've slowly started to leak out the vitriol very closely associated with one side of these protests...
According to the Canadian Trucking Alliance, 90% of truckers are.
Also your wording is very confusing
"only 10% of truckers".
You realize it's not anywhere near 10% of truckers actively involved right? That it's a much lower number, with estimates putting them at most hundreds to a few thousand out of hundreds of thousands of truckers total
- 90 percent of Canada's truckers are vaccinated, so why are you using working class as a substitute for protestor, then using that to call this class warfare?
- Don't you think working class people will care most about this list? The people with the most time to scour lists and make angry tweets probably most likely aren't UHNW individuals...
- Don't you see the irony is claiming authoritarianism has landed under the guise of morality, then assigning morality based on party orientation? Somehow painting the right as working class victims, and the left as upper class aggressors?