We have a new rental house across the road. The neighbours have decided to put up a no trespassing sign and an F*CK Trudeau flag. Our neighbourhood has always been a mix of different political backgrounds but everyone is lovely and respectful. Seems as though someone close by called the police about the flag. It wasn’t us although we have the same feelings about it. The flag is offensive but we decided to educate our child about why the display of signs like this are hateful rather than uplifting and supportive. Since the police showed up we heard them loudly exclaim “someone has too much time in their hands”. I’m guessing it was directed at us as we have a pride flag in our front window. Shortly after that the Trudeau flag showed up. How can one approach this? We’re all for free speech. But why act like a trash human to get your opinion across?

Rant over.

  • Heraldique
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    2 years ago

    I feel like people can put flags for pretty much anything as long as it’s not hateful of a particular group. Trudeau is a chosen public figure, so backlash against him is expected. We don’t really want to have a backlash with people that uses rainbow flag. If you want you could just have a flag that says Poilievre is a traitor or something

    • corsicanguppy
      2·
      2 years ago

      I feel like people can put flags for pretty much anything as long as it’s not hateful of a particular group.

      I think the law feels about the same too.

      It’s too bad that

      1. the party these guys probably believe in really have no platform other than ‘other guy bad’
      2. they need to pitch their platform with the grown equivalent of a number sticker.

      So much room for improvement