In an attempt to tarnish the reputations of the tens of thousands of protesters who have converged on Ottawa and on the bridge between Detroit and Canada, CBC put out a hit piece claiming that the word freedom is exclusively part of the far-right lexicon, suggesting that it does not belong in “progressive” politics.
“Often associated with protests and rallies in the United States, the term has taken hold among protesters who are part of the Freedom Convoy, which rolled into Ottawa in late January and has become entrenched in the city’s downtown,” CBC Radio reported.
“For many, freedom is a malleable term – one that’s open to interpretation.”
The piece then goes on to cite someone named Barbara Perry, director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at the Oshawa-based Ontario Tech University, who maintains that freedom is manipulative.
“It is a term that has resonated,” she is quoted as saying. “You can define it and understand it and sort of manipulate it in a way that makes sense to you and is useful to you, depending on your perspective.”
Perry also linked the word freedom to far-right extremist groups, which she worries are growing across Canada in response to Justin Trudeau’s unrelenting fascism....<<<Read More>>>...
