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The protests were linked to concerns over personal freedoms and government overreach. Mainly related to COVID-19 mandates and stay at home recommendations.

Supporters saw the movement as a grassroots stand for liberty against government overreach.

*edit the freedom convoy organised 3 years ago in 2022 as pointed out by commenter's.

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 98 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Freedom Convoy was as much about personal rights as the Civil War was about state's rights.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Well said, there's even a deeper layer: Ask the question "states' rights to do what?" (A: slavery). The same can be asked of the freedom convoy: "personal rights to do what?" (A: infect and kill others with a highly contagious and dangerous disease). Their exercise of personal rights in the way that some people did, should have been prosecuted as goddamn manslaughter. Same for covid denying government officials in many countries

[–] Azal@pawb.social 4 points 19 hours ago

I've stopped asking about States Rights to do what, they just sidestep it. I just ask them about the confederate constitution.

Article I, Sec. 9(4), Article IV, Sec 2(1)(3), Sec 3(3) (I'll give a hint, it's where the CSA federal government outlawed states enacting laws to outlaw slavery. States Rights my ass)

If I get the sputtering boat of "butbutbut" after that it's what are the secession declarations of Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.

At that point either they really didn't fucking know... I grew up in the South and I was an adult before I knew a lot of these, it certainly isn't in the education system I'll tell you that... but if it isn't the really didn't know category, then they're as much a lost cause as their myth.