:canada: US-inspired protests and vandalism in Canada: Trudeau condemns destruction of Sir John A. Macdonald statue in Montreal

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Seems nihilistic vandalism and protests with an incoherent message are also contagious.

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Statue of John A. Macdonald toppled during defund the police protest

Protesters in Montreal and other Canadian cities gathered Saturday to demand a reduction in police funding. During the protest, the statue of John A Macdonald in downtown Montreal was toppled.
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Protesters across Canada march to defund the police

Peaceful protests were held in cities across Canada on Saturday as protesters urged governments to slash police funding and do more to tackle deep-rooted racism in this country.
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I shared this in June because it shows a growing anger people outside America have towards the American Left. But to be fair, it’s our fault for letting their influence to affect so many in our countries.

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Why American lives matter most

Once the US exported Coca-Cola, McDonald's and movies. Now it exports political pathologies
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Yet the global adoption of US causes has a more explicitly political function as well. As James Hunter, the first theorist of the “culture war” has argued, a culture war is also a class war, built around the controversial accumulation of status by educated and urban representatives of cognitive-cultural capitalism. Some form of contest will always occur when industry and agriculture decline, and when higher education swells in response, as there is so much status, and wealth, waiting to be claimed. But American media directs these contests onto battlegrounds of cultural values.
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[T]he Americanisation of culture wars deserves resistance in itself. It homogenises national priorities, obscuring cultural and political differences, to such a ludicrous extent that British people end up arguing about police violence in a year when, yet again, it was revealed that the police had sat back and done next to nothing as a gang of men had groomed and raped young girls in Britain. Police brutality and overzealousness might be a particular problem in a Midwestern US state, while not being a priority in a northern English county; the globalisation of politics obscures local conditions.

It also distorts our understanding of the world, limiting our awareness of international affairs to those which are the focus of the narrow spectrum of social media trends. Whether you are a progressive or a conservative, you should be so in the terms of your national circumstances, and with broader frames of references than those which have been provided by social media monopolies.
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Left-wing, right-wing, all sane Canadians reject vandalism and violence. Our politicians across the spectrum don’t try to justify such acts.

“We are a country of laws and we are a country that needs to respect those laws, even as we seek to improve and change them, and those kind of acts of vandalism are not advancing the path towards greater justice and equality in this country,” Trudeau said.

“Actions such as that have no place in a society that abides by the rule of law,” he added in French.
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“Whatever one might think of John A. Macdonald, destroying a monument in this way is unacceptable. We must fight racism, but destroying parts of our history is not the solution,” [Quebec Premier Francois Legault] said.
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