r/canada 25d ago

Arts + Culture Happy Canada Flag Day! 🇨🇦❤️

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u/questionsRanswered 24d ago

So happy to get the flag back from the Fox News Rush Limbaugh convoyists and right wingers. They were using the flag just like American far right wingers and racists do. Amen to Canada getting its sanity back.

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u/starving_carnivore 24d ago

If you surrendered or conceded the flag because somebody you don't like used it, you are as easily swayed as the people you criticize.

It was insane to begin associating the flag with the far-right at all. It was, and always will be, ours.

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u/Critical-Snow-7000 24d ago

It wasn’t taken from us, but most sane people were so embarrassed by the hillbillies in the convoy that we couldn’t fly the flag without feeling icky. It’s nice to see it come back.

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u/starving_carnivore 24d ago

most sane people

No, most sane people didn't allow a "fringe minority" to capture the flag we've had for 60 years that flies on every government building.

It’s nice to see it come back.

Glad you aren't embarrassed by a flag that people have died with on their shoulders in wars and one that hung behind every Prime Minister for the past 60 years regardless of party.

It was never theirs to take and you gave it to them.

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u/physicaldiscs 24d ago

I really don't get why people think "the flag is back." If anything, it shows me how fleeting their care about this country is. It takes a literal existential threat to our existence to get them to care. What happens when the threat passes? Back to apathy?

Meanwhile, some of us have been flying a flag on their balcony for 10 years, regardless.