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.”

  • mad_lentil@lemmy.ca
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    2 months 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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      2 months ago

      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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    2 months ago

    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.