Trudeau flees as first 1,000 Trucks Arrive in Ottawa

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^^^ IMHO your cartoon is offensive. I know it's trying to make a point, but some images should be allowed to die on the sands of history and never used for any reason.

^^^ IMHO your cartoon is offensive. I know it's trying to make a point, but some images should be allowed to die on the sands of history and never used for any reason.

Really? Cartoon blackface making fun of a real politician who wore real blackface is your line? What is your reasoning as to why cartoon blackface is beyond the pale? (pun fully intended)

Someone who has experienced racism or who is aware the black face image is insulting to their race should not be subject to the image while browsing a thread.

Hmm, should I point out that there are no boundaries on this argument as offensiveness is highly subjective, or should I go with the infantilizing angle, treating minorities as if they're too fragile to handle an off color joke (literally) that isn't even at their expense? Decisions, decisions.

My opinion, and obviously you disagree.

Someone who has experienced racism or who is aware the black face image is insulting to their race should not be subject to the image while browsing a thread. It's that simple for me; I would never display such an image for any reason, period. If someone who is black wants to share it, then that would be their choice; they own the right, not someone like me, IMHO.

I'm not going to debate it; I have simply stated my personal opinion, which carries no official weight what so ever, and it is what it is.

When you can't rebut, pathetically deflect.

Wow. They cheered violent mobs throwing petrol bombs at police and vandalizing Legislative Council in Hong Kong. Now they found peace truck drivers in Ottawa “unacceptable”.

Thank you for the perfect example of a pathetic deflection attempt by yourself (after all, I don't see any attempt to rebut the post you quoted in your responce).

There's nothing to rebut, Trudeau wore blackface and it's fair to call him out on it.

not only are these swastika loons incredibly scarce, but even the scattered swastikas pictured at protests all seem aimed at *impugning* Trudeau etc as Nazis. This is obviously a brain-dead protest tactic. But it's the opposite of pro-Nazi: Theyre using Nazi as a term of abuse...

It's actually common among euro protestors. who talk about "pass sanitaire" as "nazitaire." That's what that bumper sticker seems to indicate. Yes, dumb. But the guy isnt like "Hooray for Nazis" He's saying that vax passports are so bad that only *hated* Nazis would like them"...

and yet, over last 2 weeks, we've all been asked to pretend away these obvious facts in the service of social-justice mind-melt...even tho the signs are basically the visual equivalent of (equally stupid) tweets accusing trump of being nazi. they presuppose (rightly!) nazi=bad...

this is why farber got busted importing his evidence of nazidom from florida: there's a nazi shortage on woke twitter. the only real naziness on offer has been the one moron with his "goyimtv" sign—and even *that* was destroyed by protestors. it's nazi social panic with no nazis

if some Indigenous/BLM dude came to a statue-destroying party in toronto with a big pic of Hitler & the words "Defeat White Supremacist Overlords," in a million years no one in the media would be like "Oooh that dude likes Hitler!" But that's how we're asked to treat the convoy

this is why I don't think the world is going to end bcuz some Palestinian-rights dude shows up at a rally with a swastika on his sign. with rare exceptions, he isn't rooting for, like, Hitler 2.0. he's comparing israel to hitler. again, dumb! but it's also implicitly *anti* Nazi

Back in 2018, when people were whipping themselves into another frenzy about the Nazis supposedly hiding under our beds, I wrote this for @Quillette about what the word Nazi means. It seems incredible that we'd need such a resource. But we obviously do.

5. Theatrical Nazis

When I was in high school, there was a disturbed student who liked to carve swastikas into desks. When I found his swastikas, I would fill out the carving so as to turn the thing into a box divided into four sections, and it became a sort of game between us until he gave up and began restyling himself as an apolitical goth. When we both got older, I asked him about the Swastika fixation, and he confessed to me that, at the time, he really had known very little about the Nazis, but had determined (correctly) that posturing as a supporter of Nazism was a sure-fire way to attract attention. This is an example of someone who is not a Nazi in any substantive sense, except that he properly understood Nazi symbolism to be shocking. If he had been able to achieve the same effect by sketching the Soviet hammer and sickle, or pentagrams, I suspect he would have done that, too.

6. Non-Nazis

As noted earlier, there is an unfortunate tendency to conflate all manner of conservative (or populist) thought under the label of “Nazi.” This ahistorical misusage is directed commonly, for instance, at pundits or politicians who seek to limit immigration or to enact policies aimed at the cultural assimilation of foreigners. (This would include U.S. President Donald Trump, who often speaks phobic, untrue and hateful things about Muslims and Mexican immigrants.) In some cases, it is claimed that these non-Nazis exhibit behaviours that suggest them to be Nazis in embryo—because “this is how the Nazis started.”

But as offensive, dangerous and intimidating as such figures may be, they typically have little true actual connection to the set of ideas that Nazism came to represent. That’s because the Nazis who burned Europe did not seek to assimilate or exclude so-called “inferior” peoples. They sought to enslave or annihilate them.

The essence of Nazism came to be that the moral worth of a human is encoded in his or her blood according to the hierarchy of race.

Or ... ask your friends. When I've asked mine, it's always been the same: don't display it.