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Originally Posted by cannon7

You know you can attack my ideas without making it personal, right? Saying "you're wrong, you don't know what that means, etc." doesn't push the discussion. I could counter with "neither do you", but I don't bother because it's equally pointless.

I know I'm largely wasting my time talking politics to posters who predominantly live in a country I left 25 years ago. Hell, I suspect my political perspective now is alien to most Canadians who have fully jumped on the speech code bandwagon. I generally avoid the non-hockey boards on this forum because, in my opinion, they only permit a narrow one-sided political perspective, which has become the norm in Canada. Which is fine, if you like having your views reinforced and unchallenged, then that's likely a safe space.

Canada, and especially Alberta, used to have a wide political spectrum. Every time I come back to visit, I find it a bit narrower than before. Not to say the same isn't happening elsewhere in the world, it most certainly is, but I still find it both sad and disturbing.

But if we all just want to tow the line and proclaim Don Cherry as a racist who should be made an example of and to hell with critical thinking, then that's fine by me. I don't come to this forum to convince you otherwise, so just as well.

Back to hockey talk.

Holy hell.

That's quite a powerful personal political spectral analysis tool to gather how an entire countries political beliefs are shifting in one visit!