i really don't get how "the truckers are just poor working class people who were manipulated by evil racists" isn't regarded a fascistoid statement. it essentially says that the truckers (and other protesters) are dumb cattle. either you believe in the agency of every single human or you don't. then we can skip the democracy shenanigans at large. at least be honest.

see, if there are thousands of people are willing to protest something, they usually have weighted the risk. individual people there think the mandates are worse for them than standing there.

there may be dangerous nut-jobs among them, but to extrapolate from individuals to groups is wrong. they aren't demanding some minority to be rounded up (fun fact: that is what the "protesters are literal nazis!11" side is asking for :). they are demanding that questionable mandates are lifted. this is true for every single protest going on in the world right now.

@bonifartius Easy: mass media is making them like that.

If you take a deep look into what they're saying, and take time to listen to them, people will figure out that they aren't protesting for nothing more than lifting what is restricting their freedom (and the freedom of the rest of the world, because it seems than when a country does something, so do the others) without any rational justification whatsoever except "because I say so, because a couple of persons think so".

The same happened with the yellow jackets in France (or the translation from "Chalecos amarillos" to english). Media sold them as "they're protesting because diese price is going way the fuck up", but in reality it wasn't just that but more taxes and _a shit-ton_ of other problems the government wasn't taking seriously enough, and people got fed up of Macron.

Also, the "they are nazis!1!1!!!!11" is just humongous. Why does anyone protesting nowadays towards the current governments have to be a nazi? Couldn't just be people fed up of the current politics in the world?

@captainepoch
> Why does anyone protesting nowadays towards the current governments have to be a nazi? Couldn't just be people fed up of the current politics in the world?

being fed up isn't allowed. not with "you will do everything we say, and you will be happy" as over-arching agenda.