@hackernews@die-partei.social "I am not writing this piece to advocate for the protest and its participants. I am writing this piece to ask Canadians like me whether we want our future protests to be judged and covered by standards applied to the truckers today."

The problem is that the author believes in the foundational idea that there should be a fair standard when the people he's trying to convince do not agree with that. They're perfectly happy to be hypocrites. They don't see that as wrong so long as it achieves their political goals.