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> Trudeau himself accused another MP of standing with Nazis He's really damaging political discourse by taking such a simplistic view of the world. How many N
by dane-pgp 5y ago
> Trudeau himself accused another MP of standing with Nazis
He's really damaging political discourse by taking such a simplistic view of the world. How many Nazi flags do there have to be in a crowd of 8000 people in order to accuse everyone there of supporting Nazism?
Will any protest (no matter how peaceful) ever be taken seriously again if all it takes is a few people on the opposite political side to turn up and wave some "false flags" to give the government an excuse to claim that all the protesters are extremists who only understand force?
What if the flags showed the hammer and sickle (representing another regime which committed atrocities), or the black flag of anarchism, or the flag of an Islamic dictatorship? A government wouldn't even have to go to the trouble of smashing the window of a cop car or a local business in order to invoke "emergency" powers.
Perhaps the most short-sighted aspect of Trudeau's dirty political tactic is that his accusations work even better against himself. Consider this story from 2012:
"Trudeau was criticized earlier this month by some Jewish groups and media outlets for agreeing to address the [Muslim] conference because of allegations of a link between one of its sponsors, IRFAN-Canada, and the militant group Hamas."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-defies-critics-in-muslim-conference-speech-1.1150769 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-defies-critics-in-m...