You have no idea who that person was and whether they were just an asshole, a real wannabe Nazi or a agent provocateur. Now if you saw a dozen skinheads with Nazi flags, then it would be real for sure. But that is not what we saw. For the most part, these people had no real idea how to protest, because it's the first time in their lives they done so and that in itself is significant. If you watch the professional protesters, they have it down to a science and know how to get maximum effect with minimal people. So I am sorry a whole bunch of average Canadians who have never protested before, felt the need to travel thousands of kilometres to make your life inconvenient.
What in the actual hell does this have to do with
me? See below.
Not sure I see the distinction you're trying to draw tho. You're simultaneously saying people were "calling them nazis" because of the nazi flag, yet "[not] disparaging the entire group"? I'm not tracking.
I'll say it again then.
And to be clear, this is ALL I am saying.
@YZT580 implied (in the original post that this is a reply to) that the reason the protestors were being branded as "Nazis" (and racists) was because they were "loud and obnoxious".
I countered, stating that the reason the government and media associated the convoy protestors with "Nazis" was instead because of an actual Nazi flag (and a Nazi swastika drawn on an upside down Canadian flag) as well as several Confederate flags seen at the protest.
That's. Literally. It.
I am not stating the opinion that because there was one Nazi flag there that the whole group were Nazis.
I am not claiming their was more than one Nazi flag there.
I am not claiming whether or not the guy with the Nazi flag was a legitimate supporter of Nazism, or just a
provacateur.
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Or put more clearly, just in case, because no one seems to be listening to me:
Government A says that Group B are assholes because of X.
@YZT580 comes along and says "Government A says that Group B are assholes because of Y!"
I come along and say "Actually
@YZT580, it wasn't because of Y, it was because of X."
And then you all came along and start shouting "Oh, so YOU (
@Lumber ) think that Group B are assholes because of X?!"