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He mentions cherrypicking, but the co-organizers of the gofundme/convoy seem to not like Muslims[0]? Tamara Lich and B.J. Dichter, neither of whom are truc
by ChoGGi 5y ago
He mentions cherrypicking, but the co-organizers of the gofundme/convoy seem to not like Muslims[0]?
Tamara Lich and B.J. Dichter, neither of whom are truck drivers, are currently listed as the organizers of the GoFundMe page. Dichter was a late addition, only added this week.
Lich, born in Saskatchewan, now hails from Medicine Hat, Alberta, where she served as an organizer for Yellow Vests Canada, a regional coordinator for the separatist Western Exit or “Wexit” movement in Alberta, and now as the secretary for the Maverick Party – another separatist movement and fringe political party.
Attending and boosting Yellow Vest events starting in 2018, Lich social media posts from the time show her, in one moment, calling out some hateful rhetoric within the movement, while also posting Islamophobic articles of her own, like conspiracies about the “Muslim Brotherhood” operating in Canada.
Dichter’s website shares The Quiggin Report, and Dichter himself shares similar Islamophobic sentiments in public. In 2019 he claimed that “Islamist entryism” is “rotting away at our society like syphilis.”
“[The Conservative Party of Canada] is suffering from the stench of cultural relativism and political Islam,” he said during the first PPC conference held in Gatineau, Quebec. “It is suffering from the stench of extremism that same way in third-world countries suffer from extremist groups, separatist groups, communist guerrilla factions, paramilitaries, organized crime, and more.”
[0] https://www.antihate.ca/the_freedom_convoy_is_nothing_but_a_vehicle_for_the_far_right https://www.antihate.ca/the_freedom_convoy_is_nothing_but_a_...
- DiggyJohnson 5y agoGenuinely curious, how is what you're doing here not cherrypicking as well?
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- foxyv 5y agoI kind of wonder why we are seeing nothing but ad-hominem attacks on the protestors themselves rather than addressing the issue they are protesting. What does the white supremacist, anti-muslin, and xenophobic views of some of the protestors have to do with the COVID mandates that they are protesting?
- schreiaj 5y agoMixture of things - First - what they are protesting is mandating vaccines as part of doing a job and general restrictions meant to curb Covid, at least that’s my understanding as both a non Canadian and someone only vaguely focused on it. So really what they are protesting is a disagreement about the ethics of a government taking actions to protect people during a pandemic and where the line should be drawn. Second - if we assume my assertion above is correct it becomes relevant that these groups are being led by extremists because it undermines the belief they are arguing in good faith and not merely using the current situation for their benefit. If prior to Covid you advocated to secede from the national government over presumed grievances and now you’re leading some protest against it for something else I have to wonder if you’re not just an opportunist. (You here doesn’t refer to you but to the organizers) Basically - I don’t trust that the leaders are operating in good faith. It falls similarly to hearing Tucker and the rest of the Fox crew rant against vaccines, vaccine mandates, and any sort of reasonable public health tools knowing full well they are vaccinated and have a far more strict vaccine mandate than most places. They are using people, and in some cases getting them killed, for their own motives. I don’t like that.
- s1artibartfast 5y ago>secede from the national government over presumed grievances and now you’re leading some protest against it for something else I have to wonder if you’re not just an opportunist. Who knows if this is correct, but if true, this doesn't seem contradictory to me. If a group want to secede and have freedom from federal oversight, it seems natural that they would also want to limit the federal power as long as they are stuck within the system.