Canadian Politics Today

Irrelevant. A dumb thing is dumb whether one person does it or a billion, and we should be prepared to call people out on it if their views are wrong.

Now if you had a specific issue with how people are assimilated into our country, then there might be a valid topic for discussion.Canada (and the U.S.) have a fairly low birth rate. We need immigration to help provide the population base to maintain our society.

I really had to give this some thought, because we haven't had to face these kinds of people before.  I also had a lot of division in my friend circles as to how to handle it.  Peaceful response won out.  No antifa.  Not yet, anyway.

I don't know how much more obvious I can be. If someone gets to stop the Nazis from speaking their offensive views, then they get to stop you too. Maybe it's because you aren't capable of seeing the forest for the trees. You zero in on Nazis and ignore the broader importance of freedom of speech. Or maybe you just don't have a problem with repressing other people's freedom of speech because you're convinced yours will never be repressed. But there is no way to write a law to repress the Nazis which will not leave you open to being repressed too if different people get into power. I'm not willing to take the chance just because of a small bunch of loonies and a somewhat larger group of offended snowflakes.

Not yet? Kluckers and Nazis have been marching around since before you were born.

Nothing has changed. There aren't more of them. They don't have more power. They're not causing more damage. Their beliefs aren't spreading.

Show me any writing from Marx or even Engels that advocates genocide. You're confusing authoritarian despotism for Communism.

It takes a bastardization if Marx or complete ignorance of his historical observations to even remotely proclaim that the purpose of Communism is to "slaughter millions."

I'm afraid not. If you read the cite it made it clear, as did the other two, that we choose people, and even places to live, based on how culturally compatible they are with our own values. Every city has those areas where people congregate because they're much alike. Ottawa has the Glebe, for example, where the precious progressives congregate. Boulder Colorado has the same reputation, as the cite points out. We wind up being friends with people who are the same economic class and have mostly the same levels of education and whose likes and dislikes tend to mirror our own. If you're a jock, who are your friends? Mostly jocks. You all love sports and go to games and watch them on TV. If you're a nerd, do you have a lot of jock friends? Probably not. If you're a progressive type, very progressive, your friends likely will be mostly of the same mentality. You probably aren't going to have a lot of devoted evangelical Christian pals. If you're gay, a lot of your friends will be gay and you'll like to live in a gay friendly area (thus gay villages in a number of cities).  If you love country music and rural life and drive a pickup truck you probably aren't going to be a progressive and won't want to live in places like the Glebe. You won't like the same music or TV shows either, won't read the same books and magazines, won't be into social media as much, if at all.

All of this is just within one society. Now when you bring in people from another society, one as vastly different as, say, Muslims, you're going to find them wanting to hang out together, too, and live in the same areas, consuming different media, going to different clubs and enjoying different things. And you're going to find a lot of Canadians not being happy living in their midst and moving out. Not because they're brown but because their whole culture is different.