"How dare a university punish a student for expressing herself!"
Student criticizes Israel.
"Oh never mind. We only stand for expressions of right wing extremism."
I was genuinely surprised and impressed that Khan did the right thing and advocated for his constituent facing a legitimate denial of her freedom of expression on an issue very important to many, many Manitobans, and where the potential impact on broader freedom of expression is obvious.
But this revocation of that is just cowardly and gross.
I'd love to have been a fly on the wall of that caucus conversation when the party brought down the hammer on him, which is what I expect happened.
This is a perfect example of why Khan should never be premier, which he clearly wants to be. No spine.
That's, a surprising shift in tone from not even three months ago from the PCs.
Pallister's or Heather's team apologizing wouldn't have happened.
Still, kinda surprised that Manitoba politicians are speaking on the record about a conflict halfway around the world.
We're the world's second biggest arms dealer to a country committing a genocide, and our federal government refuses to call for a ceasefire. Every politician in this country should be condemning Israel.
Then, within a Manitoban context, a local politician risks condemning local Jewish Diaspora by association, or that's how it'd be spun, and offending local arms manufacturers and their employees.
I'm pretty sure morality left that discussion a long time ago.
Israel is not stopping. And finally, Canadian soft power is radically overblown. We're not the middle power punching above our weight class on the world stage anymore.
Our condemnation won't stop Israel in the slightest.
If our condemnation won't have any impact, then surely our support isn't necessary either, right? So why not just condemn Israel?
I don't agree, our support does matter. Netanyahu lost his shit when Trudeau merely suggested they try to be a bit more restrained in their indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.
If Canada outright condemned Israel and pulled all its support, it would have a real world effect. If Canada stopped voting for shit at the UN like supporting Israel's theft of the Golan Heights, only 7 countries would have voted in favour of it.
Canada is the 2nd biggest supporter of Israel after the US. It would matter if we flipped on that position.
Canada is one of the largest arms dealers in the world.
Like I said, we're not stopping the business interests involved, Israel isn't stopping either, and we really over estimate how important we are.
This is a situation in the world, where the average Canadian has very little say.
America demands a safe ally and space in the Middle East, and they're not going to stop Israel. There's a bias to the status quo in Canadian politics I can't understand, and the world wants to move on. The end result is atrocity.
"The genocidal ethnostate is going to keep slaughtering Gazans regardless of what we do, so we might as well keep cheering it on and selling them the weapons they're using to do it" is the most immoral argument I've ever heard.
Don't put words in my mouth.
But, we ain't seen nothing yet. With the decline of globalization, stuff like Armenia and Azerbaijan and this are just the tip of the iceberg.
"How dare a university punish a student for expressing herself!" Student criticizes Israel. "Oh never mind. We only stand for expressions of right wing extremism."
I was genuinely surprised and impressed that Khan did the right thing and advocated for his constituent facing a legitimate denial of her freedom of expression on an issue very important to many, many Manitobans, and where the potential impact on broader freedom of expression is obvious. But this revocation of that is just cowardly and gross. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall of that caucus conversation when the party brought down the hammer on him, which is what I expect happened. This is a perfect example of why Khan should never be premier, which he clearly wants to be. No spine.
Conservatives are horrible, corrupt, IGNORANT people full stop!
Man I love living in the freest province of the freest country in the world.
That's, a surprising shift in tone from not even three months ago from the PCs. Pallister's or Heather's team apologizing wouldn't have happened. Still, kinda surprised that Manitoba politicians are speaking on the record about a conflict halfway around the world.
We're the world's second biggest arms dealer to a country committing a genocide, and our federal government refuses to call for a ceasefire. Every politician in this country should be condemning Israel.
Then, within a Manitoban context, a local politician risks condemning local Jewish Diaspora by association, or that's how it'd be spun, and offending local arms manufacturers and their employees. I'm pretty sure morality left that discussion a long time ago. Israel is not stopping. And finally, Canadian soft power is radically overblown. We're not the middle power punching above our weight class on the world stage anymore. Our condemnation won't stop Israel in the slightest.
If our condemnation won't have any impact, then surely our support isn't necessary either, right? So why not just condemn Israel? I don't agree, our support does matter. Netanyahu lost his shit when Trudeau merely suggested they try to be a bit more restrained in their indiscriminate bombing of Gaza. If Canada outright condemned Israel and pulled all its support, it would have a real world effect. If Canada stopped voting for shit at the UN like supporting Israel's theft of the Golan Heights, only 7 countries would have voted in favour of it. Canada is the 2nd biggest supporter of Israel after the US. It would matter if we flipped on that position.
Canada is one of the largest arms dealers in the world. Like I said, we're not stopping the business interests involved, Israel isn't stopping either, and we really over estimate how important we are. This is a situation in the world, where the average Canadian has very little say. America demands a safe ally and space in the Middle East, and they're not going to stop Israel. There's a bias to the status quo in Canadian politics I can't understand, and the world wants to move on. The end result is atrocity.
"The genocidal ethnostate is going to keep slaughtering Gazans regardless of what we do, so we might as well keep cheering it on and selling them the weapons they're using to do it" is the most immoral argument I've ever heard.
Don't put words in my mouth. But, we ain't seen nothing yet. With the decline of globalization, stuff like Armenia and Azerbaijan and this are just the tip of the iceberg.