Sorry, but I have to call shenanigans on that reading. OP stated that we were an anglophone extractionist colony with our own violent extremists. How is that inaccurate?
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It’s not.
But his statement before that about big talk implies a leveling of Canada and America that is just not warranted.
He’s basically both siding things.
This type of thinking is what got trump elected
I can see your point there, but I don’t think it’s so much an intent at equivalency so much as a commentary on the rather smug manner Canadians speak about US culture/politics, very often eliding or ignoring the fact that we have the same problems here in kind, if not in quantity.
Idk his intent but given everything that America has done in just the last month to make things substantially worse for almost everyone on the planet it’s a bit tone death to stand up and say he Canada’s does bad shit too
It’s almost like saying sure Ukraine has a corruption problem too
Slight difference though - by ignoring or downplaying our own slide towards ultra-nationalism we enable that slide to accelerate and progress. The time to say “holy shit, look how that stuff ends up” is **before** it gets worse.
Basically, let’s get off our high horses and clean up our own shit.
We have a far-right endorsing challenger for the PM-ship and an ongoing campaign of anti-gov’t activity funded by foreign right-wingers, along with a protracted (and dismayingly effective) strategy of backing alt-right candidates for school boards and other elected municipal positions.
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But his statement before that about big talk implies a leveling of Canada and America that is just not warranted.
He’s basically both siding things.
This type of thinking is what got trump elected
It’s almost like saying sure Ukraine has a corruption problem too
Basically, let’s get off our high horses and clean up our own shit.
Also where is this slide towards ultra-nationalism
I don’t see it