Katheryn Speck said she used to be a Canadian nationalist, travelled the world with a maple leaf on her backpack and once lived in Quebec so she could become fluently bilingual.
But on Saturday she was among hundreds of people who rallied at the Alberta Legislature to support separation from Canada, with many in the crowd waving Alberta flags and a few even displaying the U.S. Stars and Stripes.
“I thought it was a beautiful, fantastic country. But now I’m so disappointed. I’m literally crushed that we’ll never be represented in this country and there’s never a chance of changing the government,” Speck said.
Earlier this week, Premier Danielle Smith’s government proposed legislation that would lower the bar for holding a referendum.
Call me crazy, but I don’t want nationalists in this country, full stop. We can love and respect our nation without being worked into a blind, fervent frenzy.
People are real quick to point out that the Nazi’s had “socialist” in their party name, and real fuckin’ slow to pick up that it was preceded by “national.”
I always believed that nationalism stemmed from the idea of the innate superiority of your nation over the others. Which I find incredibly problematic for obvious reasons. Now patriotism, on the other hand, I believe is something that we all should strive for.
I think the actual term you’re looking for is federalist
I think it was the subject of the article who described herself as nationalist
I am not.
Nationalist:
Federalist:
Both pulled from the OxfordLanguages dictionary that Google uses.
And, of course, Nazi is short for the German pronunciation of “National Socialist.”
The problem is not a belief in government. The problem is in the belief that there is something intrinsically better about your nation that gives you justification to look down on other nations. Fuck nationalism.
Sorry, i misunderstood your comment.
I think we both agree that nationalism sucks, but we want a strong and united canada
An apology and a reasonable dialogue. Fuck me, the internet might be OK.