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CanSocDem

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3. Indeed.

Reply to CHIMO (Original post)

Fri Oct 24, 2014, 07:36 AM

Oct 2014

This is what the Harper gov't. does:

What I find so irritating about the innocence/virginity narrative, aside from its ignorance, is how it subverts the debate we should be having on where to go now. Stephen Harper wants to reverse the course of the last 50 years and that’s his right. Nothing is irreversible. He restored the “Royal” to the military, scorned the UN, rubbished international initiatives like Kyoto and signed up as an enthusiastic subaltern for imperial ventures led by the U.S. and NATO. But the innocence narrative implies that the alternative to Harper isn’t a realistic set of policies; it’s a natural state like childhood which must be inevitably overcome. Those who peddle the narrative aid that obfuscation.

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We didn’t lose our innocence. We never had it: Salutin [View all] CHIMO Oct 2014 OP

The commentary is right on point... Spazito Oct 2014 #1

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Indeed. CanSocDem Oct 2014 #3