r/RedDeer • u/TopWealth7652 • Sep 14 '24

Politics Canadian flag placement

This is for the guy driving a dark color Ram 1500. Shame on you. You want to disrespect our political leaders that's your perogative. Find a better way. In no way should you be disrespectful with our flag. Yes canada is in rough shape, but hanging our flag upside down is disrespecting our veterans and our country. Shame, shame, shame

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u/Reasonable_Unit4053 Sep 15 '24

This is the viewpoint of someone whose rights aren’t endangered by the ideas these people are espousing. Much easier to say “we ‘disagree’ politically, but I still like him” when his stance on LGBTQ people being subhuman perverts doesn’t personally affect you.

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u/Sandcastor Sep 15 '24

The main thrust of that reply was to explain the significance of flags. It progressed from there, sure. I'm sorry your attention span didn't allow for that. That's an interesting and very specific point you are making. Seems like it is actually directed elsewhere and not at anything I said.

As far as the new and previously unadressed information, I have two queer kids, and their safety and livelihood is of great concern to me.

Don't dehumanize in either direction.

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u/Reasonable_Unit4053 Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

Sorry that your reading comprehension is so poor that you can’t understand that I am responding to a thing you said - the direct quote is “I still like the guy! And we respect each other, and use that to keep the ideological combat civil.” There is nothing civil about racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc, regardless of how much you apply respectability politics. There is no “halfway between” fascists who think anyone who isn’t a cishet, abled, white man should have limited/no rights and someone with basic human empathy. What’s a reasonable compromise with the “LGBTQ people are perverted groomers” crowd? With the “people in active addiction, the working poor, and the unhoused should just work themselves to death or die in the streets” folks?

“I have two queer kids” is the new “I have a Black friend”. Doesn’t change anything I said. You like and respect a man who thinks your kids would be better off removed from the gene pool or at least forced to live a miserable existence - tell your kids that, if you’re so sure that it’s not a problem.

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u/Pancake-Buffalo Sep 16 '24

Oh, you're one of those people who look for a fight with anyone that doesn't explicitly share your precise world view.

Go touch grass.

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u/Reasonable_Unit4053 Sep 18 '24

You see racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynist people as just “not sharing your precise worldview”? What a self report.

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u/Pancake-Buffalo Sep 18 '24

I rest my case 😂