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> I am writing this piece to ask Canadians like me whether we want our future protests to be judged and covered by standards applied to the truckers today [..]
by jevoten 5y ago
> I am writing this piece to ask Canadians like me whether we want our future protests to be judged and covered by standards applied to the truckers today [..] actual, authentic grassroots protests are a thing of the past and the only legitimate public demonstration is one choreographed from above, its participants carefully disciplined into reading from an identical script or into silence.
Obviously this is completely wrong - the author thinks there is any kind of principled consistency in how movements are covered. Protests have always been covered selectively by the media. If journalists or media conglomerates support the cause, they prominently feature the most sympathetic parts of the protests, and downplay others. If not, they do the opposite.
Had the author's views not been so in line with the establishment, he would have noticed this decades ago.
- yunohn 5y agoKinda odd why this comment is so downvoted, I was under the impression this was pretty common knowledge…
- pc2g4d 5y agoPerhaps that is true. Or perhaps having an ideal of objectivity can increase objectivity, and abandoning such an ideal dooms us to exactly what you are describing.
- AniseAbyss 5y ago"Grassroots" LMAO we are not even pretending anymore that Canada is a sovereign state. Regardless of one's views on the Canadian government COVID policy it is not okay for a bunch of foreigners to come in and disrupt society with violent protests. Is Canada now another chess-piece in the great American culture war? Always have been.
- DiggyJohnson 5y agoWhat are you referring to? Are you suggesting most of the protestors/truckers aren't Canadians?
- 8jef 5y agoOf course they are Canadians. Only their narrative is imported.
- 908B64B197 5y ago> LMAO we are not even pretending anymore that Canada is a sovereign state It echoes what a Canadian working in America told me: "you get the privilege of paying 30% more and earning 30% less, and you get to vote for someone who’s not there when the real decisions happen in Washington".
- DiggyJohnson 5y agoThat is not "obviously completely wrong" for a number of reasons. One example of how there are novel aspects to this situation is a reversal of the politics of traditional establishment versus protestors. In the recent past, protestors were usually associated with liberal progressives, and the establishment upheld conservative (usually still within the realm of "liberal", though) principles. Now we see the liberal-progressive establishment enforcing and narrating policies that concern conservatives (and many liberals - just my opinion). Additionally, the rhetoric used by the establishment is especially concerning, because the vitriol is coming from the highest levels without much effort to obfuscate.