Episode 37 - Antifa & The Far Right in Canada

I chat with Journalist Evan Balgord (@ebalgord) who covers the Canadian far-right and antifa. He’s been on the ground for a lot of the rallies and provides some very interesting insights. The rising far right in Canada is not covered enough in my opinion, especially as Canada seems to be discussed in this idealistic way in comparison to Trump Country. Of course, things are better in Canada and racial tensions are not as high as the US. But a lot of key far-right, alt-right, alt-lite figures are indeed from here (Lauren Southern, Stefan Molyneux, Gavin McInnes to name a few) - something to keep in mind. We talk anti-Muslim movements, the controversial and often misunderstood M103, plausible deniability as a far-right tactic, and some ways in which also the left misses the mark on addressing Islam. Here is Evan’s wonderful episode for Canadaland on The Rise of the Right: http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/the-rise-of-the-right/ We also discuss hypocrisy in the ‘free speech movement’, the SPLC lawsuit. Not everyone will agree but here are some links regarding my views on that:https://twitter.com/NiceMangos/status/909205261650399237I found this to be a good piece: https://www.popehat.com/2017/06/29/how-the-southern-poverty-law-center-enraged-nominal-conservatives-into-betraying-free-speech-values/And this part of the write up was especially concerning: https://twitter.com/21logician/status/885998178008477696More free speech hypocrisy re ACLU https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/884941607740375040——Some links we discuss: Shooting at Charlottesville https://gizmodo.com/new-video-shows-man-shooting-gun-near-crowd-of-counter-1798463559Texas mosque fake story http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41147572BLM escorting Nazis: https://twitter.com/qwrrty/status/898999067673378817https://twitter.com/qwrrty/status/898998907375464448https://twitter.com/qwrrty/status/898998824760487936https://twitter.com/qwrrty/status/898999471396212736If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting via Patreon. The show is entirely listener funded and only made possible by listeners like you! https://www.patreon.com/nicemangos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.