Antisemitism and Racism: Trucker Convoy

Fair warning: Some of the screencaps will show pretty bad antisemitism and racism. If you have a problem dealing with this kind of material, you might want to stop reading now.

No, I am not in Ottawa. However, these days you can pretty much follow supporters of protests and the far right in places like Telegram, 4Chan, and GAB. Therefore, you can suss out what animates a protest, and there are other places you can do that with the left. This is not about the left, but the far right. For the moment this has become a place where certain talking points have come to the fore. Indeed, I have been following this online, and we are seeing far-right talking points emerge in these places.

To be clear, some truckers are there because they want all COVID restrictions gone. I suspect that for a minority this is it. I cannot confirm this since I am not there, but this is my speculation. Given the experience covering Occupy San Diego, this was actually true. Some people were attracted to a movement because they identify with it. Occupy was organic.

Starting with the Tea Party, which was co-opted by the Koch organization, right-wing movements have become varying degrees of astroturf and conspiracy. In other words, they have not been as organic as Black Lives Matter, for example. In fact, some are very inorganic and driven from top-down.

What is animating this is not just COVID. Though it is there because it’s become a symbol of the New World Order that in the minds of many in the…