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metocin wrote

The thing is we had very similar actions here in Canada in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en first nation when they were resisting a pipeline being built on unceded land. Protestors filled roads and railways were blockaded. The difference in lack of support is night and day. There are thousands of people protesting in Ottawa right now that couldn't give less of a fuck about indigenous people in Canada because a) they're racist settlers and b) they support our racist settler state. Where were those people when those solidarity protests were taking place? At home complaining about the actions and probably telling their families about their fantasies of running over protestors. This convoy has gotten millions of dollars in support despite their disruptive actions when the entire nation was opposed to the same disruptive actions when indigenous people and allies did them.

People will say "Oh not everyone there is racist, not everyone has a Nazi flag", but these people were not shutting down streets for indigenous solidarity or black solidarity. They are protesting for their own selfish reasons and patriotically waving the flag of their racist, settle state while they oppose the current governing party's actions.

I think you may be right about the governments reluctance to act on this, because ultimately they will ease restrictions (and claim its not because of the protests), then a) the protestors will feel as if they won and b) the liberals who support whatever the gov does, including restrictions, will support the easing of restrictions as well. The other factor is that these are mostly white, state-supporting Canadians and it will look so much worse for the RCMP to come down on these protestors the way they do to land/water protectors and other POC in this country. The racist settle state cannot brutalize it's most ardent supporters.

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