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Originally Posted by rousseau
This exchange perfectly represents the myopic idiocy of the woke cult.
The hyperbolic exaggeration is staggering. Visible minorities in 21st century Canada are subjected to hundreds/thousands of racist experiences? Really?
Your evidence is a perceived micro-aggression that was apparently so blatant and bizarre that the "victim" remembered it. Meaning that kind of thing hasn't actually happened to this person hundreds and thousands of times. Is a hick in a small town a snarling racist because he makes an assumption that the white guy understands English and the East Asian might not, or is he just guided by his experience with tourists, or maybe his upbringing when Canada wasn't so racially diverse? He's definitely a bit stupid, though, because she clearly spoke English to him. Sure, it's rude to completely ignore someone in that context. He's a small-minded rural guy. Did he hurt her feelings by his actions?
Boo hoo. Meh.
My visible minority wife has experienced one incidence of racism in her 22 years in Canada. One summer evening about fifteen years ago while walking along the street she made out the word "ch--ky" in the boisterous and mostly incomprehensible shouting from a passing car full of teenage idiots.
She was shocked and angry about it. I was, too.
Here's where proportion comes in to play. Had she been subjected to this kind of abuse "hundreds and thousands" of times over the last 22 years, along with legal and administrative prejudice and any other number of racist behaviours and actions, and not just from drunken teenage boys invariably destined for lives of penury and even incarceration, but from a plurality of adults holding regular jobs who are generally a part of the mainstream of the community, then I would be right with you in decrying racism in Canada and pushing for change. Or she and I would have returned to her country of origin because the racism here was so exhausting and debilitating.
But it is not, and she has not. Uh, yeah, this is anecdotal. But how likely would it be that she is one of the few exceptions to the rule? How is it that so much of the evidence provided for white supremacy and racism in Canada amounts to microaggressions like not looking someone in the eye? Or, say, boil water advisories in remote native communities that are being addressed to the tune of billions of dollars of wealth transfers from non-indigenous people to indigenous peoples? Ironically, this actually is "systemic racism" in the sense that, you know, people are being given facilities for producing potable water free of charge solely due to their race.
A sense of proportion and logic. You have neither. You do have a flair for scatological insults directed at the one tribe left that the woke have decreed you can be prejudiced against, though, so you got that going for you.
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Since it seems like anecdotes are admissible as "evidence" now...
My best friend throughout my youth was a visible minority guy. We liked to go out - a lot.
I mean, we'd go out 4-5 nights a week sometimes.
We'd go on party trips so I've been out with him in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Gatineau, Quebec City, Toronto, and all sorts of places in small town Quebec and Ontario in between.
Out of what were probably hundreds of outings in bars, pubs, taverns, restaurants, discos, etc., do you know how many times he was told he couldn't enter, or made to feel he didn't belong there?
ZERO.
And this was in the 1990s. 30 years ago.
I know this for a fact. I was walking in the door and standing right next to him all those times.
Interestingly enough, I hadn't seen him for a while as he'd been living in another city for a while, but recently returned to the region.
We went out for dinner and drinks about a month ago, and since we like to talk about everything under the sun, this topic came up. He's actually the one who brought it up. He mentioned that the only time he really felt racially excluded was when we were teens,when he recalled a mutual friend of ours said something like "you know, you're not really like us, you're not really one of us"... He said that shocked him at the time but since then things have been pretty quiet.
I find that with most minority people they all have these types of incidents that stand out, like my friend and your wife. Some certainly do have more of them than just one-offs like these, and I'd suppose it would also be quite exceptional for a minority person to have none.
Still, the idea that the average individual minority person gets insulted or attacked as a regular part of life, isn't something I've ever heard anyone I know complain about.
So someone tell me why should I believe a bunch of random white guys on a forum instead of the minority guy who was the best man at my wedding, and his family who are like my own second family?
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