It's time to stand for reason in Winnipeg as two extremes clash.
No matter what we stand for, we're called "nazis", "fascists", "racists" or some other derogatory term by the AntiFa left.
Meanwhile, the altright is feeding into their frenzy by encouraging authoritarian Marxism and obsessing over white culture.
AntiFa calls themselves "anarchist" while pushing the biggest most oppressive form of government... Communism.
The alt-right calls themselves "right" while supporting authoritarian collectivist rule, calling for a Pinochet type take over and in some cases actually calling for an ethno-state.
All this is doing is further dividing the populace. Everyone's infighting instead of fighting the actual problems we face.
We are standing against communism, socialism, fascism, nazism... We are fighting against coercive COLLECTIVISM!
All the while, the vast majority of people aren't either extreme. The media is propping up these insane "causes" and the state is sitting there, grinning, licking their lips as the populace brings itself to collapse. And liberty dies with thunderous applause.
AntiFa is made up of a bunch of gullible college and university kids who just regurgitate identities they see on TV to be trendy and fashionable. It's fashionable to be a white knight, playing identity poitics without an actual political view or understanding. Most of them are lashing out at "daddy" and while claiming to be anti-fascist and anti-oppression, they are propping up a fascist and oppressive system. Recently Todd McDougall of Winnipeg Alternative Media hosted a rally against state run mainstream media and their propagation of war. AntiFa considered that fascist (even though state run media is LITERALLY fascist) as well as white supremacy. So they showed up, threw things at him, called him names, tried to pull his pants down, spit at him and acted like a bunch of spoiled children. They acted like fascists against opposing views.
While the alt-right begun under odd circumstances and was a mix of libertarian and conservative ideology, it quickly instead transformed into this walking stereotype far from libertarianism and fell into extreme national socialism and in many cases fascism. Triggered by the AntiFa crowd begging for safe spaces, they want to make the entire country a safe space. They are ruining true opposition to the insanity we know as AntiFa and the far left collectivist radicals and encouraging MORE insanity. In return, AntiFa's encouraging them.
This is causing vast infighting. People are getting beaten up and labeled as a nazi or a commie from either side for simply voicing their opinions.
They could stand in the street and call for freedom of speech and they're somehow a "nazi."
They could stand in the street against police brutality and they're a "commie."
It quickly becomes the boy who cried wolf. Everyone becomes blanketly labeled as some cartoonish stereotype regardless of the substance of their message. Suddenly these words don't mean anything anymore.
You call everyone you disagree with a nazi or a fascist and that gives you perceived moral rights to suppress what they say and beat them up.
You call everyone you disagree with a communist and you do the same.
This goes in circles forever.
Let's show this crazy world that we are not just a bunch of divided polarized extremes. The vast majority of us are civil and willing to converse. We are not racist or begging for an ethnostate and we are not spoiled aristocratic communist trust fund kids trying to cause chaos and divide.
It's bad enough that for so long, so many Winnipeggers have been too apathetic to speak for what they believe in. Now most Winnipeggers are scared to go to events talking about issues because they don't want to be categorized and potentially attacked, even possibly put their employment at risk.
Let's remind this city that we are not the people the media claims we are. We can still have conversations and on Saturday, September 30th, we WILL converse.
If either side wants to show up and act out violently and make themselves look stupid, they can go right ahead, but we won't stand for it. We are civilized people and we will NOT be silenced.
Let us not bring upon the great Orwellian divide. The notion that "War is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength."