DJjaffacake said:
I think you mean Her Majesty, you've got another a instead of the e. But yeah, I know ardent republicans who regularly say they admire the Queen for the amount of work she does, and would never want her job. Kinda suggests she does a lot. Also:Nice to see the first republican post, rather than making valid points and showing that anti-monarchists do have some good arguments, is just advocating murder.
About three days ago I promised to my self that I'd become a better, kinder person. Upon making this choice I knew that I'd have some hardships to overcome, but I never figured that such a test for my fortitude would come this early. Oh dear, is this ever going to be a tough one. As a topic, anything relevant to the queen makes me just a tad upset. There are many things to name, so where do I begin?
Firstly, it's very, very upsetting to see people get so defensive about her. It seems if anyone has something bad or questionable to say about the queen then they're automatically a 'republican'. The reason why this personally hurts me is because I love Britain and it's really sad seeing people resort to acting basically no different from those far right wing republican tea partiers in America. I'm not saying this to be rude or anything, but I can see a shocking parallel between them calling someone a 'liberal' as if it's an insult and numerous people that support the queen calling someone 'a republican' with the exact same tone and context.
I know this from experience, because I've actually been called a republican by one of them once, when I know for sure that I'm a very liberal person, evident by me being on the left on pretty much every - single - issue - imaginable.
Secondly, it's a bit frustrating to hear people throw around 'republican' when they're the ones that are defending the Queen - something which in the core of its nature is actually quite conservative. There's nothing wrong with Conservatives, but I think it's just a bit silly to call other people 'republicans' when the person doing the name calling is basically promoting a conservative ideal.
Thirdly, she's done terrible, inexcusable things that we'd usually find completely unjustifiable if it wasn't the queen in particular doing those things. Up here in Canada, she's built these estates all throughout our land which she never visits. They are costly, they've destroyed habitats, and the power is literally always on. Past justifications for these acts have been quite diverse ranging from making me out to be some kind of nationalist to saying that they'll have historical significance. Well, I simply don't agree to that. With all the people in the world we just keep pushing the animals more and more into small forests. We can't help that, but I think that one person - the queen - could if she simply stopped having so much estates built in our land that she never even visits. So, to clarify I don't get emotional over this issue because I'm some nationalist that wants to build a wall from basically anyone that's a Canadian, I just want people to have some responsibility in where they build their gigantic homes, on behalf of animal rights and conservation of our forests, land, power, electricity, and the numerous other things her estates are literally wasting.
Fourth, she is not above anyone. Technically isn't buying merchandise based after her family and giving her a gigantic mansion based around what vagina she came out of (my attempt at humor, I apologize to everyone if this came out as sexist or overly offensive.) just kind of submitting that she has greater value than you as an individual?
