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Except this is all your own fantasy. Who here has denied that anti-francophone sentiment exists? No one I can recall.
I just said I haven't experienced it in the Lower Mainland within my own bubble.
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Don't take the bait. Nothing good comes from the rabbit hole of "all anecdotes are valid" - it's just another of many ways they try to diminish the statistical fact of minorities facing discrimination. In a — orientation context, it's like a straight guy denying the issue of homophobia by saying that some gays call him a "breeder". Straight pride!
Anti-Quebec sentiment is well known, and that's almost entirely rooted in the threat of separation and the country's affirmative action for QC's self-imposed economic disadvantages. Discrimination against individual francophones, I've never heard of. Just about anywhere in this country being bilingual in both official languages is a win. |
Francophone doesn't mean bilingual. There are lots of unilingual Francophones, just as there are unilingual Anglophones. If you only speak English in Canada, you have much better economic prospects than if you only speak French.
Of course this doesn't mean that Francophones represent a hard done by victim group in modern Canada. But I am not sure anybody has asserted that. I do think that Francophones in Canada may sometimes have personal insight into what it's like to be a minority. |
Just so I'm understanding this correctly... we've gone from "black-on-black crime", to statues/pancake mix, to Asian exceptionalism, to language obstacles for unilingual Francophones outside Quebec (not even the kind that Quebec proudly imposes on its anglophones), as the latest filibuster to water down efforts to give black/indigenous people equal treatment in the justice system?
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