The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 25, 2024


Leftists punish Alberta town for voting the wrong way

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The small town of Westlock, Alberta voted in favor of restoring neutrality to their flagpoles and crosswalks by mandating that the only things that can be flown on them are the flags of the places they live: The flag of the town, the Alberta flag, Canada flag, or the Union Jack, and Crosswalks should be neutral.

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00:00:00.000 One big takeaway that you'll get if you watch Canadian left-wing activists long enough is that they don't believe it's democracy unless they win.
00:00:08.800 There's a story out of the small town of Westlock, Alberta, where the residents, after getting very sick and tired of all the constant pride virtue signaling being put in their public spaces,
00:00:19.000 voted in a very narrow plebiscite, 663 to 639, in favor of restoring neutrality to their flagpoles and crosswalks by mandating that the only things that can be flown on the flagpoles are official flags of the places that they live.
00:00:34.880 The flag of Westlock, the Alberta flag, Canada flag, or the Union Jack, and crosswalks should just be normal, white-lined crosswalks.
00:00:44.620 No rainbow crosswalks, no pride flags on the flagpoles.
00:00:48.180 All this stuff should be left to private residences.
00:00:51.540 If you want to put it up in your private business, if you want to put it up in your private home or on your lawn, that's fine.
00:00:56.620 But let's make neutral spaces neutral again.
00:00:59.800 The public space is supposed to be neutral, but because the residents of Westlock voted the wrong way because apparently people were lied to or this is a bigoted, like, bad vote, it's intolerant,
00:01:10.800 intolerant, now the progressive activists who don't even live in Westlock are basically trying to attack Westlock, punish the people for voting the wrong way,
00:01:19.840 so they are going to shove even more politics down their throat when the entire point of this vote was not to make it political in the other direction, it was to make it unpolitical.
00:01:29.780 The public space should be devoid of politics.
00:01:32.600 And so this is what a bunch of these left-wing activists posted.
00:01:36.740 This guy named Douglas says,
00:01:37.800 What do you mean need? Need of what? Politics all the time?
00:01:56.400 The people of Westlock said,
00:01:58.500 We are tired of the constant virtue signaling on our public properties all the time, and we'd like to go back to Westlock feeling like we're just in the small town of Westlock,
00:02:08.120 not like we're in the constant political campaign in favor of some social movement.
00:02:12.740 It's silly.
00:02:14.100 Here's another post from this man, Dr. Christopher Wells. 0.93
00:02:18.080 He says,
00:02:18.400 Thanks to an amazing donor, hundreds of these lawn signs are coming to Westlock very soon.
00:02:23.440 Pride can't be cancelled by a vote.
00:02:25.200 You'll soon see the most rainbows ever in Westlock's history.
00:02:29.060 Pride can't be cancelled by a vote.
00:02:31.080 Nobody cancelled it.
00:02:32.300 People said,
00:02:33.200 Keep the neutral flagpoles meant to represent where we are.
00:02:37.100 Just doing that.
00:02:38.520 Stop making them represent different political movements.
00:02:41.280 We just want things to be neutral.
00:02:42.760 Our crosswalks should function as crosswalks, not banners for social positions.
00:02:49.200 And the thing is, and they could say,
00:02:50.860 Well, it's just about tolerance.
00:02:52.380 No, it's not.
00:02:53.340 It's not about tolerance because everyone is completely tolerant in Canada.
00:02:57.680 There's nobody who is attacking you to the point where you are able to get public officials to put these things up in the first place.
00:03:04.080 But it's inappropriate for them to be up.
00:03:06.420 It's inappropriate for any flag representing a religion to be up. 0.95
00:03:09.580 It's inappropriate for a flag to be up that's representing another country.
00:03:14.020 I'm usually actually quite against whenever we display flags from other countries on our flagpoles.
00:03:18.840 We can support those countries, but they're not meant to be flown in our public spaces that are meant to represent the public space that we're in, the town location that we are in.
00:03:28.720 But that is considered cancelling pride because, really, these people just see the amount of power they have in the public space as being representative of how tolerant it is.
00:03:39.880 So to remove a pride flag from a public space, that is being intolerant.
00:03:43.880 To add an extra flag, that is to be even more tolerant.
00:03:47.120 The only neutral thing is to leave everything that they've put up in place.
00:03:50.600 If you take it down because, hey, guys, it's not Pride Month all the time, we don't want this here, that's intolerant.
00:03:56.340 And no, it isn't.
00:03:57.200 And this is very anti-democratic of what they're doing.
00:04:00.160 Yes, you can display these signs on your private property, but this is obviously trying to basically punish people for the way they voted by trying to get everyone in town who supported the no movement to just constantly keep pushing the issue.
00:04:14.580 And I hope the residents of Westlock stand up to this nonsense and push back on this toxic political movement of constantly needing left-wing political messaging displayed everywhere all the time, or else you are at risk of being called a bigan.
00:04:30.160 There are tons of LGBTQ people online who are in favor of what the residents of Westlock did because they get sick of it too. 0.99
00:04:37.500 The idea that you're somehow homophobic or transphobic or whatever because you don't want specific political flags being flown all the time is not – it's silly, whatever.
00:04:47.660 But, like, it's one of those things where nobody's saying get rid of it because they hate anyone.
00:04:52.020 It's because they like their town, and they like their town's flag and the Canadian flag, and it doesn't need to be constantly polluted with politics.
00:04:59.960 Here's another post from someone.
00:05:02.400 Brooke Arcan Paul, an NDP MLA, says,
00:05:05.320 I'm mad as heck, but tomorrow we will wake up and keep fighting for the 639 people that showed up and voted for equity in Westlock.
00:05:13.360 Sorry, so you don't fight for the people who voted yes? 0.83
00:05:16.340 So if they voted wrong, screw them.
00:05:19.020 You're here to stick it to them because they voted the wrong direction. 0.83
00:05:22.180 So we're going to keep fighting this forever.
00:05:25.220 We're not going to take a break, come back at it in a couple years, and maybe vote for what we believe in.
00:05:30.520 No, no, no.
00:05:31.120 They basically must be aggressed upon now.
00:05:33.760 I'll continue reading that.
00:05:35.720 Doing the right thing is hard, but in all my years I've never anticipated such a narrow margin of victory in that beautiful town.
00:05:42.140 We will prevail.
00:05:44.120 Let it go.
00:05:45.640 Maybe let people live their lives. 0.66
00:05:47.920 These people are effectively, like, social fascists.
00:05:51.200 Unless you believe in everything that they do, parrot the same things that they say, and, you know, fly the same flags they do on their public property, you're an enemy. 0.74
00:06:00.620 These people are supremacists.
00:06:02.160 Here is everyone's least favorite Alberta NDP MLA, Janice Irwin, and she says, by a vote of 663 to 639, Westlock has banned pride flags and rainbow crosswalks.
00:06:13.960 No, they haven't banned them on public, like, streets, on public flagpoles.
00:06:19.240 If you have your own flagpole on your property, you can fly it if you want.
00:06:23.760 If you have your own crosswalk on you, if you have a large enough property, you can make it rainbows.
00:06:28.580 You can make it rainbows from the sidewalk all the way up to your house.
00:06:32.460 The big walkup can be that way.
00:06:34.260 They didn't ban anything.
00:06:35.740 They basically enforced the idea that public spaces should be neutral.
00:06:40.280 Ugh, anyways, sorry.
00:06:41.160 Reading on.
00:06:41.560 Janice says, to Westlock's 2SLGBTQ plus community, I'm so sorry. 1.00
00:06:47.400 You may feel alone, but know that there's so many of us stand with you.
00:06:50.920 The fight for a safe, inclusive Alberta continues.
00:06:53.420 We can't back down.
00:06:54.620 We won't.
00:06:55.320 What do you mean inclusive?
00:06:57.220 How are the Westlock people not being inclusive?
00:06:59.820 Because they wouldn't fly it?
00:07:01.060 Are you not inclusive if you don't fly that Christian flag where it's like a white flag with that, like, blue square in the corner with a cross?
00:07:08.620 Are you intolerant to Christians if you don't do that? 0.54
00:07:10.940 I don't think so.
00:07:12.100 That doesn't make you intolerant for not flying it.
00:07:14.620 But you think people not constantly pushing your political values in the public is equivalent of bigotry. 1.00
00:07:23.120 It's stupid. 0.99
00:07:23.860 These people, again, just think the amount that they occupy in the public space, 1.00
00:07:27.840 the amount of sidewalk space that is dedicated to their political values,
00:07:32.420 that represents how tolerant the place is.
00:07:34.640 Not that everything's neutral and everyone lets each other live as they please and is perfectly pleasant.
00:07:39.500 Being pleasant and being neutral is not good enough.
00:07:42.200 That's actually bigotry in the minds of left-wing activists like Janice Irwin. 1.00
00:07:46.080 And you will be punished if your town votes the wrong way.
00:07:49.400 Remember that.
00:07:51.100 Here's Janice Irwin's follow-up, and she says,
00:07:52.880 And please, folks, don't paint all Westlock residents with the same brush.
00:07:56.300 Being there for a crosswalk painting last year was one of the most incredible events I'd been to as an MLA.
00:08:02.100 So many people were organizing and pushing back against this bylaw.
00:08:05.380 Send them so much love. 1.00
00:08:06.780 So basically what she's saying there is more than half the residents of Westlock are scum. 1.00
00:08:11.500 More than half of them are scum unless they voted no or they showed up to the crosswalk painting with Janice. 1.00
00:08:16.540 Then they're the good ones. 1.00
00:08:17.780 I don't think the people who voted no are nasty people.
00:08:20.660 They just had a different position than me.
00:08:22.580 And they lost.
00:08:23.620 And that's just how it goes. 0.95
00:08:24.740 Because some of them might be nasty people.
00:08:27.460 But I'm not saying that no voters are horrible people.
00:08:29.700 Like, I'm going to go to Westlock before I sit down at a diner wondering how they're going to vote in case they're some sort of person who doesn't align with my political beliefs and I have to set my hair on fire over it.
00:08:39.780 Obviously not.
00:08:40.840 But Janice Irwin thinks that if you voted yes, that means that you're terrible.
00:08:44.360 And the idea, like, this is coming from Janice Irwin, a lady who has never been able to condemn Hamas.
00:08:51.280 A group, a genocidal organization that killed 1,400 Jews on October 7th.
00:08:56.660 She's never been able to condemn them.
00:08:58.460 And she's only ever engaged in a Hamas apologia.
00:09:02.000 Janice Irwin is not just some political figure I disagree with.
00:09:04.980 We have different takes on things. 1.00
00:09:06.360 She's a nasty, horrible person. 1.00
00:09:08.360 She does not care if a Jewish child is stabbed to death in their bed. 1.00
00:09:12.380 She only cares if there's enough pride flags during the pro-Hamas protest. 1.00
00:09:17.220 She's a horrible person. 0.91
00:09:19.440 This is why conservatives need to fight back against these people. 0.99
00:09:22.620 Not aggressively.
00:09:23.940 Not being like the left and getting up in people's faces.
00:09:27.200 But in, like, you know, a noticeable, peaceful resistance to this nonsense.
00:09:32.140 Just voting in all the, getting involved in any election that you can to vote and campaign against their supremacist agenda of needing to fully take over the public space.
00:09:42.480 We are fighting for neutral public spaces.
00:09:44.580 They want to take over the public spaces.
00:09:46.680 That is the fight that is going on here.
00:09:49.220 Ugh.
00:09:49.900 Anyways, that should be it for me today.
00:09:51.900 I just quickly want to plug, as I always do, that I, Wyatt Claypool, am running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
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