Thread by @sunnshiiny

When I agree with Erin O’Toole, it makes me angry.

It means the extremism being witnessed on the left is out of hand.

F you for putting me and millions of others in that position.

https://twitter.com/erinotoole/status/1409595901295931394

Get your head out of your behind and do the hard work of reconciliation.

That does not include destroying property.

I don’t care how effing angry you are.

There is absolutely no justification for destroying property.

None.

You want to act like a two bit arsonist to prove a point? The only point you’re proving is your utter lack of consideration for indigenous people who attend those churches.

Learn to cope with this information. Millions of indigenous people have and have not destroyed property.

As for those believing this is an appropriate and acceptable response. Turn over everything you own. You’re on stolen land. You came to own it from stolen resources and your legitimacy is gone. Please join the homeless and start begging for handouts.

Obviously that is not a valid or legitimate response. Neither is burning a church!

Grow the frick up. There IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR VIOLENCE. Burning a church down is an act of violence. People don’t need to die for it to be deemed violent.

I suspect, but have no proof either way, that burned churches are either severely disaffected indigenous activists who care nothing for their community and have taken justice into their own hands like vigilantes.

Or far right operatives seeking to make the grief process a nation has embarked upon less valid.

Both have precedent in US BLM protests.

Except Canada isn’t protesting. People are grappling with shock, disbelief and horror.

Ya think that process might be important?!

It is reconciliation in motion. People of Canada are reconciling what they once believed with what’s our reality.

Quit interfering in that process. Idiotic rationalization of violence disrupts that process. Duh!

Those of us seeking reconciliation would like it to progress.

And if your leader is rationalizing this behaviour, or any other political leader, they are declaring to the nation how unsuited for their position they hold. Regardless of their race, culture or platform.

There is no case where violence is an acceptable response. Period. End of argument.

Just have not destroyed. Angry tweeting makes for mistakes.

And for every person who equates the condemnation of burning churches with conservative ideology, stuff it.

I’m not conservative. Neither is O’Toole’s request conservative. It’s rational and logical to request an end to violence under the circumstances.

Which is why I’m pissed.

You’re giving CPC an opportunity to appear rational and moderate. Something O’Toole has been pining for an opportunity for months.

Thanks. Thanks for making CPC look reasonable.

Thanks for making the guys who are the ideological descendants and current champions of this ideology to seem like rational and reasonable people. They aren’t, but your idiocy has provided them a gift.