Same. Posted fairly blissfully ignorant for a couple months, until I shared my experiences teaching Taiwanese and Chinese university exchange students in the same room. Obviously, I got banned.
That’s about the point I became aware I was hanging out in a nazi bar just because the atmosphere was nice and the beers were cheap.
Canada itself is a colonial apartheid state.
Was? Colonial settlement was not pretty, and our history is supremely fucked up, so while I dislike the use of apartheid specifically, the essence is there.
Is? Absolutely not. Fuck off with this propagandist take. You should be embarrassed to be comparing the genuine atrocities of the past/parts of the world with the current state of Canada.
Is it? It doesn’t say “in response to the America-Iran war…”. As the above poster pointed out, sanctions were occurring long before, and are continuing to occur after.
A war can have two villains. If you’d like to complain that Canada isn’t placing sanctions on the US for things they’ve done, feel free. But that is not the argument you’re making.
This has occurred alongside a growing lack of viewpoint diversity among faculty and concerns over the erosion of academic freedom in Canada… First and foremost, the agencies should commit to political and ideological neutrality.
“A lack of diverse opinions is bad, which is why we should commit to removing all opinions other than mine, which is the most objective and neutral.”
Okay buddy conservative.
My man, I can’t grow up on Kevin Smith films and miss the opportunity to sit between him and Jason Mewes. Are we kidding?
This isn’t a competition of who is a bigger victim. People are suffering in both halves of the world, and you’re here telling American’s they should be killing themselves in protest because their president is out there committing war crimes. The irony of your self-righteous attitude, as you sit here projecting your pearl-clutching sense of moral rightness onto others who are just struggling to keep breathing, is fucking insane.
America is not my country. I just don’t let bullies spew shit without being told. Do yourself and the rest of the world a favor, and reflect on the things you say.
I am choosing to tell you the fuck off. Don’t mistake this for an exchange of ideals. You are behaving in a disgusting fashion, and you need to be told. I respect that it comes from a good place, because we ultimately want the same thing, but to treat people who already feel powerless as morally bankrupt is beyond absurd.
You are kicking the powerless while they are down, because you don’t like the outcome. Get some perspective.
Jesus fucking christ, dude. Get some perspective, or shut the fuck up. They don’t “got theirs,” and choosing to “help” is quick suicide for no gain.
Honestly, it’s disgusting to watch someone like you parade some absurd moral high ground while having absolutely no grasp on the lives others are living.
It sounds to me more that they think antisemitism is morally correct based on their aforementioned conspiracies.
Because apparently blaming the people committing the crimes isn’t enough. You need to perpetuate hate against an entire ethnic/religious group, otherwise your opinion is invalid as “Liberal tears.”
Anyone who looks at everything that is listed in the Epstein files and concludes, “this is why Judaism is bad,” needs to pull their head out of their racist ass.
Appreciate this.
Trump’s political supporters say and do enough batshit, immoral things that we don’t need to be lying just to make our points.
The documentation on how China “solved” homelessness exists, mostly thanks to previous citizens that left.
Unfortunately, reliable modern information is scarce, because that’s what you get with an authoritarian regime obsessed with information control and social engineering.
The goal of keeping children naive towards sexual acts is to make them vulnerable and attractive to pedophiles. The Albertan government is working to infantilize children so that they better appeal to pedophiles.
The same can be said of America’s culturally in groups.
Unfortunately, thanks to authoritarian control of the media, it’s hard to tell exactly how many labour camps filled with “totally not homeless” people are propping up China’s economy.
It’s a little sad when our collective culture has convinced us that any woman being unapologetically horny online must be a bot.
I’ve definitely seen humans “behave like this.” Spend 15 seconds on any short-form social media, and it’s thirst post after thirst trap post, ad infinitum. We have had posters here in Lemmy that pretty perpetually post boomer-humor style content that aimlessly sexualizes women. But a woman goes “fuck it, I want to do that,” and it must be a bot, because that’s the culture we’ve built.
Women aren’t really different from men. Men act up being horny all the time. Women are like that too; we just look down on them when they do. It’s about time we stop claiming to be beyond petty sexism while continuing to seperate the genders so unabashedly.
They really need to stop devaluing the meaning of the word “racism.”
Equating the life of individual privilege that the leader of an autocratic nation lives with an oppressed minority is despicable. Even from the (completely dishonest) position that leaders like Kim Jong Un are actively making their countries better, there’s no perspective that allows one to depict someone in such a position of power as suffering akin to the murdered and marginalized communities that genuine victims of racism have to suffer through.
We hate Kim Jong Un because he’s a fascist, narcissistic piece of shit, warping the narrative in his own country to justify living a life of luxury while his people suffer. Race has nothing to do with it.
Thank you.
I reread it like 3 times wondering who thinks Trump is getting smarter, and why we’re worried about that.
Depends on if you place value on eroding progressive values or not. Say what you want about this Trump presidency, but he’s emboldened bigots to act on their values, and you can’t take that away from him.
Unironically, exactly right.
This is the same reason they see homosexuality as a sinful choice, and take issue with homosexuals just simply being alive. They struggled so hard to suppress their homosexual urges, and now these people are flaunting theirs, openly? And the rest of the world wants to celebrate this moral failure, despite it being something that everyone struggles with? I mean the mental gymnastics required to succeed in choosing to be heterosexual, while celebrating someone else who failed to do so is just absolutely insane.
You can see how this all logics together if you assume everyone feels the way you do, and you’re fighting an urge to do something you see as morally wrong. Obviously, abusing your teenage daughters trust to give yourself a mild sexual release is morally wrong, but the point stands. These people play the moral high ground card because they struggle with these thoughts every single day.
I’m glad you can find the clear distinction between Hitler and the Canadian people: we recognize our past mistakes and work to rectify them.