they did some "say his name" chant for charlie kirk
Made me chuckle. Canadians are so obsessed with Americans that it's freaky.
Maybe instead of chanting an American political commenters name, they could have chanted the names of the
children killed by Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, the immigrant that
bribed his way through trucking school. Or maybe they could have chanted slogans that derided the role that the
CEO of Conestoga College plays in the
student-to-illegal-worker scheme. Or maybe they could have even focused on the
youth unemployment rate, the rise in
housing costs, and their relation to the surge in immigration numbers. I can't fault them for not touching on women's issues re: immigration, because the Canadian news media is so against reporting on this, to the point where one has to
browse the Hindustani Times to find articles about it. But no, let's do a chant about the American guy - that
totally won't derail the point of the protest, if there even was one to begin with anyway.
The problem with a lot of the political-minded people here in Canada is:
- Usually, they're terminally online. They are divorced from the reality of the place in which they live and only gleam it from their virtual interactions. They believe that because their posts can get likes or shares, that this would translate into an innate ability to organize a mass protest.
- As a consequence of their virtual lives, they can only perceive issues and understand them from a heavily Americanized viewpoint. They apply American political ideas and American sociocultural norms onto Canada, often to their own (or, their movement's) detriment.
It feels like any bozo thinks he can organize a rally or a movement nowadays, completely oblivious to the actual time, effort, and resources that go into planning one. This goes for both right-wing and left-wing bozos too: they both think whoever screams the loudest or has the most people is the "winner," when really there are no winners or losers in this sort of thing. Protests shouldn't have to be dramatic - they should focus on highlighting issues, sharing ideas, and convincing others of their importance. But, for a lot of these people, none of that matters: the only thing that matters to them is sticking it to "the man," because so many of them have untreated Oppositional Defiance Disorder.
P.S., I'm not talking about you specifically with my post Harbringer. I'm kinda annoyed on your behalf that you wasted a day at a protest that was so poorly organized and so unfocused.