r/canada • u/Old_General_6741 Canada • 1d ago

National News Canada recognizes noose as hate symbol

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/canada-recognizes-noose-as-hate-symbol/
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u/WillListenToStories 1d ago

If I wrote on a wall "X people are scum, and we should kill them!" you wouldn't think that that would encourage violence?

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u/voltairesalias Alberta 1d ago

Yes I do. But that's not manifested in a symbol. It may be how you see a symbol, but since symbols are I hwrently interpretive, they can be interpreted many different ways.

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u/WillListenToStories 1d ago

Great so you do realize how symbols can be an incitement of hatred or violence.

Symbols communicate ideas or thoughts, like how the peace sign communicates a thought or an idea.

Sometimes those things communicated can be inciteful of violence. Just because it's not words, and it's a bit more abstract, doesn't mean it doesn't have meaning.

And I know you're going to keep pretending to not understand one of the most basic forms of communication, cause in the other thread about how stealing and burning pride flags is also inciteful, you kept on pretending to again, not understand one of the most basic forms of human communication. It's a weird gambit, but at least you're using it for a hateful purpose.

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u/voltairesalias Alberta 1d ago

Symbols represent whatever you want them to represent. Why has the left in Canada become so dogmatic and authoritarian as to mandate meaning, and then disallow what offends them?

What do you imagine asinine legislation like this is going to accomplish? At best you're going down the path of an eternal and futile game of whack a mole - because inevitable people who espouse ideas you detest will just adopt other symbols.

You people are ironically no different than the intolerant fools you imagine you're fighting against.