[deathfun]

What the ****?

OTTAWA - A handful of university students have hopped aboard the left-wing Rideau Institute's "white poppy" bandwagon for Remembrance Day, promoting their pacifist ideology by piggybacking on the Royal Canadian Legion's red poppy campaign.

"Young people don't want to celebrate war," Celyn Dufay of the University of Ottawa said. "We want to work for peace."

With the imposing National War Memorial behind him, Dufay unveiled a pin Monday he and a gaggle of activists will distribute this week.

The pin puts the Rideau Institute's "I Remember for Peace" slogan on a white poppy - a controversial symbol that has angered the legion before.

Bill Maxwell, secretary of the legion's poppy remembrance committee, said Dufay and the Rideau Institute don't understand Remembrance Day symbols.

"The red poppy is a symbol of sacrifice," Maxwell said. "It's not a glorification of war."

Conservative MP Erin O'Toole, a military helicopter navigator before entering politics, said the red poppy already stands for peace.

"That peace came at the cost of many, many lives," O'Toole said. "So, to run a simultaneous (white poppy) campaign that really detracts from the day I think is not only inappropriate, it actually undermines the message."

Dufay hopes to distribute about 2,500 white poppy pins, including at the national Remembrance Day ceremony next week.

Maxwell said that won't go over well with veterans.

"I think they may even take it personally," he said. "I'm sure they would."

Dufay said he'll distribute the pins anyway.

"We can't account for other people's feelings, however, no one has a monopoly over Remembrance Day," he said.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/11/20131104-142226.html


I don't even know where to begin on this one

[Luis Dias]

social justice marxist warriors FTW!

[Phantom Hoover]

Bunch of dickheads.

[StarSlayer]

Hey Canada, compare this to the WBBC and you are doin' alright

[Mongoose]

We don't do the poppy thing here, so the significance of changing the color is a bit lost on me, though I guess I can see how it might upset some people.

[Nuke]

if canada goes pacifist we can just walk in and take over. canada would hince forth be called new murica (or perhaps alaska 2).

[Phantom Hoover]

We don't do the poppy thing here, so the significance of changing the color is a bit lost on me, though I guess I can see how it might upset some people.

The significance here is that they are wilfully interpreting a day which is supposed to be about solemn remembrance of the dead as some jingoistic glorification of the war in which they died. I mean how much of a bigheaded little twerp do you have to be to think that anyone in this day and age is actually celebrating the first world war, christ

[Flipside]

It's also kind of silly if you consider the poem that inspired the Poppy symbol didn't actually specify a colour.

I suspect what they have done is misinterpret the third verse:

Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

I suppose that could be interpreted as 'keep fighting those we disagree with or we will haunt you forever', but when you read the whole poem, it's about not letting them die for nothing, whether that be through Peace or War, their ideals should not be forsaken.

[yuezhi]

if canada goes pacifist we can just walk in and take over. canada would hince forth be called new murica (or perhaps alaska 2).

C'mon over neighbour. Just remember to remove the hockey slowly lest you provoke a reaction in the form of religious fundamentalists.

[MP-Ryan]

We don't do the poppy thing here, so the significance of changing the color is a bit lost on me, though I guess I can see how it might upset some people.

The significance here is that they are wilfully interpreting a day which is supposed to be about solemn remembrance of the dead as some jingoistic glorification of the war in which they died. I mean how much of a bigheaded little twerp do you have to be to think that anyone in this day and age is actually celebrating the first world war, christ

Ignorance of history, particularly among self-indulgent 'crusaders' like these morons, should come as no surprise to anyone.

[Dragon]

Typical. History always takes a backseat to political goals these days. I mean, who cares what actually happened, right?

[Phantom Hoover]

As ever, Dragon, you are confusing something that's as old as history itself for some fresh affliction of the modern times.

[StarSlayer]

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."