Take a stand against the commission? Are you listening to yourself? This is the hill
you're choosing to die on. The commission told you to remove the flair and the cops are disobeying, but that's the commission's fault? Are you joking? That's the dumbest switcharoo projectionist logic I've ever heard.
And yes, this is important. If it's not important to you, take the stupid-ass patch off.
And FFS, I'm sure the commission can handle discussing a patch (this should be easy; cops are making it hard) and other things. Just because this is an issue doesn't mean they're not handling other issues, too.
And where did this "white supremacy" crap come from? That's not why police have been asked to remove this non-compliant symbol from their uniforms.
That's cherry-picking one piece of the opposition to it and conflating that with the larger problem of the symbol. Refer back to
this article:
Then you have Calgary Police Association president John Orr saying:
Yeah, well sometimes when a symbol you like is co-opted by racist elements and used in a way to increase divisiveness and intimidate minorities, maybe change your fataing symbol you dumb fata. Maybe I should start wearing a swastika around. It's a symbol I relate to from
before the Nazi's appropriated it, so why should I have to stop using it just because it has been misused and misrepresented by some?
That doesn't even
touch on the fact there's an argument to be made this is a desecration of
Canada's flag policy:
The symbol is racist and it's divisive in addition to being racist. I see a guy with a gun walk into my store with his thin blue line and desecrated Canadian flag and I'm uncomfortable. I don't like this guy is brazenly thumbing his nose and disobeying orders put in place to make the public feel comfortable. Does he not care that it's an intimidating symbol? I don't like when a guy has an us-versus-them attitude and I'm the THEM. And I have to do what he says, not disobey, and I must comply.
And it's not up to the police officers to pick and choose what they're allowed to flair up their uniform with, anyway. They work for us. They are overseen by us. The community does not like the symbol. Take it off you fataing pieces of #### while you still have a modicum of respect from the community.