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@streetfestival Exactly what I discussed with my partner. They're protecting themselves from any possible backlash, I mean elections are coming and most probably many of us in their position might do the same although we say otherwise. To be it's not about the NPD itself but the Canadian government and elected MPs in general.
The anti-Palestinian collusion on display the last month runs very, very deep. It probably plays into the mythology of (just) colonialism that countries like Canada were founded on, that US foreign/immigration policy is predicated on, etc. The only positive I can take away from all of this is that this incident has sensitized me (a white-Canadian in their 30s) to the enormous consequences and injustice of ethnocultural privilege and marginalization more than any other world event that I've lived through has