Anyways, he should have never made the comment to begin with (especially in this day and age of online public shaming). My dad is an immigrant that came over from his country to live here, and he always bought a poppy each year from work for Remembrance Day.
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Just to be clear i am not saying he is right or wrong. To be honest i couldn't care less if peoples buy the poppy, be it immigrants or born Canadians. My problem comes from the fact that you can't say ANYTHING anymore related to immigration in this age. The slightest "negative" comment will get you fired. (While he bashed on french peoples for years without consequences)
There is a weatherman in the US (i think) wich had a tongue bad roll up and badly pronounced "Martin Luther King" and was fired over that. Wich is totally ridiculous.
I am the first to comment on stuff on twitter, be it video games, movies or anything, so i LIKE the social media for that aspect. Look at the Sonic movie, social medias are responsible for the correction of it and i feel the movie will be much better now. But social media is starting to go more and more into politics and having an impact on what peoples can say or not. And thats not cool.
Unless you talk very hurtefull hate speech, you should be allow to have an opinion and say what you want.
As for your dad, i don't know him but knowing you a bit i say that he was a great immigrant and im more than happy to welcome peoples like him personally. Im not anti immigration or such. Not at all. Thats a "popular belief" among peoples who are anti SJW culture and want better control over immigration. And its a wrong one.
To get back on Don's comment, he want peoples to buy poppy and wear it, thats his opinion, it should be a right to say it. Personally i bough them in my life (when i stumble across them in store) but i never wear it on my cloath, i don't like that the pin pierce the cloath. But i really don't care that peoples buy/wear it or not.
