Streaker Streaker:
kevlarman kevlarman:
Why is it wrong to love Canada?
Who's been saying that it's wrong to love Canada?
I have not been told it's wrong to "love" Canada in any literal sense. I don't think anyone's ever said that to me. What I was talking about is that as I was growing up I heard a lot of people express dissatisfaction, dissapointment, dissaproval, and downright hostile contempt for anyone who would express their love for Canada in any way other than quietly, politely waving a small flag on Canada day.
I watched as folks would be berated for bragging up Canada, suggesting we had a mighty armed forces, that we were just simply the best at peace-keeping or robotics, etc. I listened as those folks would be labeled as no better than a frothing-at-the-mouth, flag-waving Yankee for demonstrating their pride and love for Canada in conversation, in a little over-the-top display of patriotism for even enjoying a book or a TV show that bragged on us.
Those same folks who would berate you about bragging up Canada or just honestly extolling the virtues of living here would go on and on and on about saving tree frogs in the Amazon, extolling little desert tribes as being more sophisticated politically than us or how we couldn't do enough to match the majesty of some now defunct Arab empire that had now desended into despotism. They would always talk of Canada as being simply just to simple to understand that there was more sophisticated societies out there that either were older than us, or were more ecologically friendly than us or that they were better simply because they would not kill a cow.
These were also the same people that would try to drive home how the worst possible thing you could be was a healthy, white male. But that's another rant for another thread.
Those folks who did all that shit, I would like to see them lose their power politically. They are a poison to Canada's future generations. They are a sorry bunch of global apologists. They have a place in our universities as divergent idea-makers since learning to overcome diversity does make us stronger. But they don't deserve so much as the time of day for the giant guilt trip they piled onto the rest of us.
CKA Elite 
