Councillor Lisa Robinson tried to equate the swastika with the anti-racism Black power raised fist, calling it a “symbol of hate” common to “Communist and Marxist ideologies.”

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    Just having the debate was what she wanted. Now she gets to grift on “freeze peaaaach!” and how she’s so persecuted, plus the lie about BLM == Marxism gets more oxygen.

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    11 hours ago

    This is the most wild deranged centrist take I’ve heard in a while. Like sure the Nazis have their hateful symbols but so do the other sides, and in that way they are totally equivalent.

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      That’s not a centrist take

      She’s a nazi, she frequently appears as a guest on a neo-nazi podcast.

      Her followers kept sending in threats so they had to move council to online only for safety

      Then her followers called in with a bunch of nazi imagery on their camera that prompted this ban proposal

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        I think it’s clear anyone who still calls themselves a centrist, at least in the US, just doesn’t want to admit they support nazis

        The progressives in the US would be centrists almost anywhere else.

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    A symbol of equality is similar to a symbol of genocide? I love American conservatives

    Edit : sorry to everyone I started to use American for the continent and US-Americans for the shithole but forgot that it is not wide in use. Sorry to everyone all Canadians I angered, squared screws rock