Councillor Lisa Robinson tried to equate the swastika with the anti-racism Black power raised fist, calling it a “symbol of hate” common to “Communist and Marxist ideologies.”

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    4 days ago

    This is the most wild deranged centrist take I’ve heard in a while. Like sure the Nazis have their hateful symbols but so do the other sides, and in that way they are totally equivalent.

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      4 days ago

      That’s not a centrist take

      She’s a nazi, she frequently appears as a guest on a neo-nazi podcast.

      Her followers kept sending in threats so they had to move council to online only for safety

      Then her followers called in with a bunch of nazi imagery on their camera that prompted this ban proposal

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        4 days ago

        I think it’s clear anyone who still calls themselves a centrist, at least in the US, just doesn’t want to admit they support nazis

        The progressives in the US would be centrists almost anywhere else.

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          2 days ago

          In Canada we consider Sanders and Trudeau to be centre-right

          When right wingers pretend to be centrist we call them out