The post was likely a mistake. But McKenna did not grant the same benefit of the doubt to freedom protesters and Conservative politicians throughout January and February.
Trudeau's former Environment Minister and resident Liberal Twitter scold Catherine McKenna tweeted a celebration of International Women's Day on Tuesday which included photos of Ukrainian women soldiers.
The only problem? It included a Nazi symbol.
McKenna has since deleted the tweet.
"This International Women's Day, standing with the brave women across Ukraine defending their freedoms, their rights, their country. #IWD2022"> #StamdWithUkrain"> e" the now-deleted tweet read.
Nice one, Catherine. https://t.co/O76pQdDVUk pic.twitter.com/X5WKhwxlGv
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray)
The Nazi symbol in question is the "Black Sun", described by Wikipedia as "a Nazi symbol, a type of sun wheel employed in a post–Nazi Germany context by neo-Nazis also in some strains of Satanism."
The women soldiers McKenna posted might be part of Azov Battalion, a right-wing militia closely linked to neo-Nazi organizations in Ukraine.
The post was likely a mistake, with McKenna not noticing the insignia. However, McKenna did not grant the same benefit of the doubt to freedom protesters and Conservative politicians throughout January and February.
In fact, McKenna smeared the protesters and her former colleagues in Parliament, accusing them of "standing with" and promoting "swastikas" and "confederate flags" after a few hateful symbols were spotted among the thousands of peaceful protesters.
McKenna outright accused Canadian truckers protesting to get their freedoms back of "promoting Nazi and antisemitic symbols" multiple times during the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa.
Conservative politicians egging on the convoy have a lot to answer for. None more than Pierre Poilievre who represents the Ottawa region.
Instead of standing w/ Ottawans, he stood w/ folks with swastikas & confederate flags who beat up homeless, denigrated memorials, closed biz. https://t.co/6rdNTExc8B
— Catherine McKenna (@cathmckenna)
McKenna has even called for regulation and censorship of social media to prevent the promotion of "violence and hate". Presumably, this means McKenna would be banned from Twitter herself for promoting a Nazi symbol on Twitter.
Time for Canada to regulate social media companies so they stop promoting violence and hate. Because apparently they - and their people - can't regulate themselves.
— Catherine McKenna (@cathmckenna)
McKenna's gaffe comes a week after Trudeau's Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland was busted posing with a pro-Nazi banner at a demonstration for Ukraine in Toronto. A reporter left her position at iPolitics after the outlet softened a news report on the incident.
The official Twitter account of NATO made a similar mistake to McKenna's this week.
"As part of an International Women's Day collage for social media, we posted an image from stock footage of an international agency. The post was removed when we realised it contained a symbol that we could not verify as official," A NATO spokesperson told Newsweek.
The NATO tweet for international women’s day depicting a female solider wearing a Nazi black sun symbol has been deleted. Here’s the screengrab. It’s the top left: pic.twitter.com/0P8LdJXJJg
— Maajid ??? ????? (@MaajidNawaz)
"As part of an International Women's Day collage for social media, we posted an image from stock footage of an international agency. The post was removed when we realised it contained a symbol that we could not verify as official," A NATO spokesperson told Newsweek.
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