Washington Post hammered for painting Freedom Convoy as ‘explicitly racist,’ arguing ‘freedom is a key component of white supremacy’

The Washington Post was skewered for an opinion piece painting members of the Freedom Convoy as “explicitly racist,” and arguing that expecting individual freedom is a “key component of white supremacy.”

The article titled “The Ottawa trucker convoy is rooted in Canada’s settler colonial history” is written by Taylor Dysart – a Ph.D. candidate in the department of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania.

“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,” Dysart asserted.

“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,” Dysart stated.

“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,'” Dysart claimed. “But the convoy represents the extension of a strain of Canadian history that has long masked itself behind ‘peacefulness’ or ‘unity’: settler colonialism.”- READ MORE