The attempts to paint the Freedom Convoy protesters as violent, racist, and a group of misguided individuals has been an ongoing effort by the Canadian government and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. But while it might not be surprising that Trudeau is using government power to disband the protests, the Washington Post was caught recently trying to spread an article that suggested the protesters in Canada were racist and a “key component to white supremacy”.

Written by Taylor Dysart, who is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, the article called, “The Ottawa trucker convoy is rooted in Canada’s settler colonial history”, suggested, “The convoy has amassed significant support; its (now removed) GoFundMe raised more than $10 million (CAD) and it has been celebrated by several center-right and right-wing public figures, including Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and former President Donald Trump. The Freedom Convoy now touts itself as an ‘Anti ALL MANDATES Movement,’ desiring to remove all public health mandates.”

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Dysart added, “While the convoy’s supporters have characterized the protest as a peaceful movement, uninformed by ‘politics, race, religion, or any personal beliefs,’ many supporters have been associated with or expressed racist, Islamophobic, and white-supremacist views.”

Stating that people watching the Freedom Convoy are shocked, Dysart claimed, “The convoy has surprised onlookers in the United States and Canada, both because of the explicitly racist and violent perspectives of some of the organizers and because the action seems to violate norms of Canadian ‘politeness’. But the convoy represents the extension of a strain of Canadian history that has long masked itself behind ‘peacefulness’ or ‘unity’: settler colonialism.”

While supported by the Washington Post, online, users ripped it apart, writing, “If freedom is a white supremacist notion, as this @washingtonpost article insists, what should we be aiming for instead? Unfreedom? Incarceration? Slavery?”

Senator Tom Cotton added, “Why do conservatives want to keep critical race theory out of schools? Because it leads to the insane belief that ‘one’s entitlement to *freedom* is a key component of White supremacy.'”

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