Was macht man, wenn man neben einem faschistischen Staat lebt?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-what-do-you-do-when-youre-living-next-door-to-a-fascist-state/
Was macht man, wenn man neben einem faschistischen Staat lebt?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-what-do-you-do-when-youre-living-next-door-to-a-fascist-state/
6 Kommentare
There’s not a massive amount you CAN do considering they’re our largest trading partner.
So, diversification is the key.
This piece is pure clickbait. It starts with Reddit-friendly but unhinged-and-hyperbolistic statements protected by rhetoric including:
* Only naiveté blocks this conclusion.
* It is cold hard fact that many Americans are irredeemably racist and fascist.
He’s not presenting facts or discussion, just revving up the already-triggered and playing blood-sport.
That said, yes, Canada should invest in the military. (Hmm… isn’t it that fascist neighbor that has been begging for this for decades?), yes, Canadians cannot ever agree on anything, yes, Canada should allow free expression and currently does not.
But I’m not in agreement with:
* Canada should encourage unlimited immigration. Canada’s success with immigration has partly been due to the Immigration Act of 1976 requiring immigrants prove they wouldn’t impose „excessive demand“, which in turn has been considered racist. But at least it eased assimilation.
* Canada should hyper-tax the wealthy (he calls them „oligarchs“), driving them out (“ If Canada’s wealthy elite are not happy living in a democracy, they should leave. „) This seems a good way to discourage everything a country needs for success.
* Canada needs to provide the First Nations even more control, given recent court rulings on land ownership and usage.
It’s like a screed to push Canada deeper into failure based on a psychotic break caused by over-focusing on Trump. No discussion, vapor presented as unassailable facts and really bad ideas as requirements. Feh.
This guy understands fascism but he has a long way to go before he understands Canada, its history, or its people. I think he’s never thought much about our history or our situation until he needed somewhere to flee to and it kinda shows.
If the US were to invade, and the military didn’t surrender, it would need to break into gorilla units and adopt hit and run tactics. This is not going to be a Ukraine vs. Russia situation. If you listen to any Canadian military leaders from the past 20 years, they always say that. And frankly, it’d stand the best chance of success.
It’s also a bit weird to hear someone who doesn’t know our culture or history of anti-Americanism who thinks we need immigration to base our national identity around. Anti-Americanism is enough fertile ground. I will fight to the death not to be American. It’s been instilled in us from birth.
Lastly, global sympathy does not matter. If the US invades, we’re not being rescued by Europe. Whether they’re sympathetic to us or not is irrelevant. And frankly, they’ve gone anti-immigrant themselves so I don’t think they’d care.
Lastly, the very thing that is feeding Canadian reactionary politics is perceived over-immigration. Continuing to barrel ahead with high immigration, despite a lack of affordable housing or food, toppled Trudeau. You’d have to be an idiot to base your politics on that right now.
Also, the lecture on Canada facing its colonial past is always weird coming from Americans. Yes, we can do better than we have. But also, we are aeons ahead of the US on that front. It kinda sounds like the author is commenting on a part of our history and our current politics without actually understanding it.
Jason Stanley, an American who is currently a professor at U of T, says that Canada is an oppressive settler colonial state, while suggesting that we consider a draft to fight the Americans.
In Canada we call it „conscription,“ professor.
I only know about this guy because he’s been the main character of Twitter a few times. I don’t think he should be taken seriously.
Can’t be clearer than that:
„Canada should free itself from military dependence on the United States. Citizens of a country neighbouring a fascist dictatorship need to learn how to defend their country militarily, and, if necessary, defend it house by house“
The fact he suggests a draft shows he knows basically no Canadian history at all. Has he any idea what proposing conscription during either of the world wars did? It profoundly divided Canada along language lines, causing deadly riots in Quebec City, the first mention of Québec sovereignty and independence in the provincial legislature, a collapse of the Liberal Party and the emergence of the first Québec nationalist party (Bloc Populaire). All a „draft“ will do, especially when we aren’t even under attack, is further divide this country again.