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Originally Posted by Slava
Politics has changed overall. You used to be able to have discussions with people and disagree. Afterwords, you could hangout and be good friends. One of my very best friends and I have that relationship where we argue over politics respectfully, never agree, and move along as friends anyway. Politicians used to be that way also.
Now it’s a fight to the death. When you look at things during Covid and the divisions it’s caused/causing, it’s not a good thing for society. It needs to become acceptable that people disagree and have differing opinions. Instead we have this “gotcha” mentality and the other people are “brainwashed” or “stupid”.
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I agree with you, politics has changed. I teach social studies in a rural Alberta high school. In 2020, I had students coming to me asking me if it was true that Obama, Hilary Clinton and Joe Biden were satan worshippers who drank the blood of children. Also the kids asked if it was true that all democrats were pedophiles. This wasn't a single incident. Other times kids asked if it was true that the UN was trying to turn the world into a single communist nations controlled by globalists. It happened several times, and I needed to spend entire classes discussing this issue with some of my classes.
I eventually found out that an educational assistant were telling the kids these things, along with some parents. There was also another social teacher who was fully into Qanon that was telling the kids some crazy stuff. The educational assistant told the kids in our school lots of things (some of which has been repeated on this forum) like all mainstream media in Canada is controlled by Trudeau, or that Trudeau is trying to turn Canada into a communist dictatorship. What's stupid, is the EA worked in the shop class as an extra set of eyes so the kids didn't hurt themselves, but I guess she also took the opportunity to teach them about her beliefs. Anyways, she was eventually let go for doing this. About 6 months later she was elected as town councillor in this community and affiliates herself with the UCP.
I guess my point is, am I to take this person seriously? Am I to look at her beliefs/views which are easily refutable and still respect her? I mean, I see her humanity and respect her as a person on this planet but her beliefs are absolute garbage.
There are posters on this forum who post things along the same vein, but maybe not to the extreme that she was doing. But any suggestion that Rebel, WS or TN or somehow anywhere close to the equivalency of other news sources (CBC, CTV, Global News, Globe and Mail, etc.) is just wrong.
We live now in an age where anyone (literally anyone) can start a website and call themselves a journalist and produce garbage. And then we as a society are supposed to accept them as 'different opinions'?
People from all parties used to accept universal truths, like Russia/Putin is not to be trusted. Now we have people in the USA and Canada arguing that Russia is the good guy? Wow. 5 years ago no one would have questioned that, regardless of if they were right or left leaning.