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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
Sun Jan 13, 2013, 11:26 PM Jan 2013

Canadian anti-Idle No More racism grows online

http://m.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1314100--mallick-canadian-anti-idle-no-more-racism-grows-online

Is Canada more racist than we think?

It turns out that writing a column about Idle No More and the ongoing battle by Indians in Canada for fair treatment attracts racists the way a wet lawn calls out to worms.

I had always thought that one of the joys of Canadian life was its abhorrence of racism. But judging by some of the email I received and the comments I read online elsewhere, it’s getting a bit Mississippian around here.

The racism unleashed after Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike, the Federal Court Métis ruling and the effort to get Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the same room as chiefs and the governor-general? It was extraordinary.

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Canadian anti-Idle No More racism grows online (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Jan 2013 OP
Yeah, its pretty bad up here in my experience NoOneMan Jan 2013 #1
I really dislike judges like the lady who mentioned the TV on the res lunasun Jan 2013 #2
I am so disappointed brush Jan 2013 #3
Racism has always been here. Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2013 #4
 

NoOneMan

(4,795 posts)
1. Yeah, its pretty bad up here in my experience
Sun Jan 13, 2013, 11:33 PM
Jan 2013

I was sickened and surprised since moving at how out in the open everyone was about it. I might here it a bit more at the fishing holes due to all the conflicts. Its a complicated situation, but it seems like a lot of people have forgotten that.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
2. I really dislike judges like the lady who mentioned the TV on the res
Sun Jan 13, 2013, 11:37 PM
Jan 2013

It could have been bought 2nd hand /used, or gotten in exchange for something else,or free off a move they helped on
She really doesnt know but decides she does
typical

brush

(58,042 posts)
3. I am so disappointed
Sun Jan 13, 2013, 11:55 PM
Jan 2013

Was hoping there was a place in this hemisphere where one could escape the . . . ah just fuck.

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
4. Racism has always been here.
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 12:29 AM
Jan 2013

But as the population ages, and the economy stagnates intolerance comes out into the open more. No different than the USA with the major exception that our Charter of Rights does a pretty good job at preventing it from becoming institutionalized.

But First Nations have always been subject to public contempt. There is also a virulent strain of anti-Muslim, anti-black, anti-francophone, anti-union and of course anti-Occupy sentiment expressed by citizens through Canadian media, around water-coolers, and at the local tavern. Its saddening and embarrassing.

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