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I am sickened to learn @CBCNews@x-activitypub-bridge.deno.dev / @cbcnews@flipboard.com & Ian Hanomansing are hosting a #CBC News special entitled, "51st State: A Cross Border Conversation". Not only is this horrifying, anxiety inducing, giving fuel to a very dangerous narrative, but it's irresponsible journalism at a time where #Canada's sovereignty is being threatened. This is letting #Canadians down, CBC.

For my fellow Canadians who wish to express their concern, here's the contact for Cross Country Checkup: cbc.ca/radio/checkup/contact-c…

in reply to Erica Hargreave

sounds like you haven't watched it. Maybe you would appreciate what it actually presents.

Sounds like you're prejudging the book by the cover.

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in reply to volkris

@volkris By giving it credence of a conversation is normalizing it, which is not okay and incredibly dangerous. This is not a conversation that should be normalized as it is a threat to #Canada’s sovereignty.
in reply to Erica Hargreave

Normalizing it? No. That strategy basically echoes the Streisand effect. It's not about normalizing, but about engaging to point out how abnormal the proposal is.

If you let the idea faster it doesn't go away, it grows in strength, as we see every single day today.

We are now experiencing SO many problems that arose out of proposals that people didn't engage with for fear of "normalizing" which just let them gain more followers instead so that they actually did become normal.

No, this whole concept of letting the conversation go out of fear of normalization is EXACTLY counterproductive. It gives those ideas room to become normal.

And again, this isn't theory, this is exactly what we see everyday today as bad ideas have become significant and adopted.

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in reply to volkris

@volkris
The proposal is illegal. Full stop. Many treaties disallow it being made. Making such proposals is legally a declarations of war.

There is nothing more that needs be said. Certainly not a radio show.

in reply to Amgine

but the point is to say it!

You can't just ignore that it's illegal. We have to engage and point out how goddamn stupid it is. How unworkable, inappropriate, stupid, ignorant, backwards, stupid stupid stupid it is.

By declining to engage for fear of normalizing just lets it fester without pushback. And we have seen that kind of thing happen over and over and over again.

Yeah, it's damn stupid. But it needs to be engaged with so we can point out that it is damn stupid. Otherwise, a whole bunch more ignorant people start getting behind the damn stupid proposal because they don't know any better. Because people aren't pointing out what they don't know, because they fear normalization, and that's exactly why that strategy backfires.

Over and over again.

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