Post by iceland2018 on Aug 5, 2018 16:27:05 GMT -6
Saw this video on the internet about a right wing political group being booked at the Belgian Club:
You will have to click on the vimeo logo to access the confrontation. I honestly do not get what the big deal is. If you look at a history of Canadian Political parties, there have always been fringe groups. Christian Heritage Party, Communist Party, Canada Action Party, etc. have been around for decades at one point or another. They are groups with no real following, and no real power. From what I saw there were maybe 4-5 people at most, at the Belgian Club attending this party meeting. Is this really newsworthy? I can see it being a problem if the place was packed, and its leaders were promoting hate speech, but this is just a few people with oddball views.
I fail to see how it warrants so much media attention. I mean the Belgian Club forced the woman who booked the right-wing party to resign her position, apologized in a statement on their website and Facebook page, and withdrew from Folklorama. Yet many people online still are attacking the Belgian Club, and painting them as "Nazis." This is a club that has been in existence for 113 years, and up until now, has never really had any kind of controversy. It just seems like bullying to me. It's one thing to denounce the group that was booked, but why go after a club that probably did not look into the matter, and apologized for the incident.
Thoughts?
You will have to click on the vimeo logo to access the confrontation. I honestly do not get what the big deal is. If you look at a history of Canadian Political parties, there have always been fringe groups. Christian Heritage Party, Communist Party, Canada Action Party, etc. have been around for decades at one point or another. They are groups with no real following, and no real power. From what I saw there were maybe 4-5 people at most, at the Belgian Club attending this party meeting. Is this really newsworthy? I can see it being a problem if the place was packed, and its leaders were promoting hate speech, but this is just a few people with oddball views.
I fail to see how it warrants so much media attention. I mean the Belgian Club forced the woman who booked the right-wing party to resign her position, apologized in a statement on their website and Facebook page, and withdrew from Folklorama. Yet many people online still are attacking the Belgian Club, and painting them as "Nazis." This is a club that has been in existence for 113 years, and up until now, has never really had any kind of controversy. It just seems like bullying to me. It's one thing to denounce the group that was booked, but why go after a club that probably did not look into the matter, and apologized for the incident.
Thoughts?