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From the Toronto Star:
Wrapping Muslims in flags stifles the struggle for equality
Equality does not come from a Muslim woman wearing an American or Canadian flag hijab, but from the unravelling of injustices that these flags represent.
A demonstrator holds up a poster from the “We the People” campaign of artist Shepard Fairey in Berlin, January 21, 2017, one day after the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
By AZEEZAH KANJI
Thu., Jan. 26, 2017The drawing of a Muslim woman wearing an American flag as a hijab has become one of the most iconic images of resistance to President Donald Trump, raised on protest signs and shared on social media accounts around the world. The picture is part of artist Shepard Fairey’s “We the People” poster campaign, a series of stylized representations of people demonized by Trump: a Latina woman, a black woman, and the Muslimah draped in stars and stripes.
It is telling that the Muslim figure is the only one depicted by Fairey as parading her patriotism on her body. This is a sign of how deeply the suspicion that Muslims are a foreign enemy force has been ingrained – so that our loyalty must be overtly displayed, worn figuratively on our sleeves if not literally on our heads.
In Canada, too, proclamations of Muslim patriotism have been seen as a way of combatting Islamophobia. Last year, for example, the Canadian-Muslim Vote initiative embarked on a project to erect Canadian flags in front of every mosque in the country.
But the compulsion to swaddle Muslims in flags is not a cure for Islamophobia – in fact, it is one of its symptoms. Instead of acceding to the demand placed on Muslims to profess their loyalty loudly and repeatedly, we should ask why Muslims are required to engage in such exceptional professions of allegiance in the first place.
“The idea of the ‘conspiratorial Muslim’ long preceded [Donald Trump],” notes Kevin Schwartz, research fellow at the Library of Congress and former visiting professor at the United States Naval Academy. “It is the outcome of a staggering array of policies and cultural practices, kept alive by a general complex of power, surveillance, entrapment, and Islamophobic think-tanks that have perpetuated, peddled, and promoted its narration.” (According to a 2016 report by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, 37 groups in the U.S. “whose primary reason for existence is to promote prejudice against or hatred of Islam and Muslims [ . . . ] had at least $119 million in total revenue between 2008 and 2011.”)
The basic idea underlying Islamophobia is the unfair and fallacious assumption that Muslims as a whole should be subject to collective suspicion because of the actions of a few. Like the denunciations of terrorism that Muslim leaders and organizations regularly deliver, ostentatious expressions of Muslim patriotism fail to displace this fundamentally flawed premise.
Exhibitions of flag-wrapping also obscure the oppression and exclusion lying behind the flags.
We should recognize that flags are not only symbols of national pride but are simultaneously symbols of national violence: Canada and the United States were built on the dispossession and genocide of Indigenous peoples, the enslavement of black people, and the exploitation of migrant workers.
The American and Canadian flags may represent rights and freedom and justice on one side – the side that we proudly wave – but they are signs of colonialism and racism and militarism on the other.
This is why NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the U.S. national anthem at football games; “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of colour,” he said.
Equality does not come from a Muslim woman wearing an American or Canadian flag hijab, but from the unravelling of injustices that these flags represent.
Azeezah Kanji is a legal analyst and writer based in Toronto.
Other articles by Azeezah Kanji include:
These borders kill: Canada’s lethal immigration system
Being Muslim in Canada: Subverting stereotypes and challenging narratives
Don’t worry, white men. You’re not oppressed yet
A most colonial strategy: Saving Muslim women, demonizing Muslim men
How has “Allah” become code for “terrorism?”
Personally, I blame Ms. Kanji’s hostility toward Canada on Trump. I mean, what else could be the cause?
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Start screaming “allahu Akbar!” at any white snowflake carrying that hijab art.
Demand that the hijab is not enough and that she must wear the burka.
Demand to know why she is in the street without her father or brothers present.
Demand that she submit to Allah and obey the sharia.
Etc.
Do this with extreme psychotic passion. It’s a favor to her to show her exactly what is coming.
This is pretty typical in the Star. It’s like a Guardian for the mentally handicapped.
You will typically get 3 or 4 of these type of columns from various victim groups when doing a quick scan of a weekday issue. There’s also a lot of this stuff shoehorned into articles that have nothing to do with SJW issues.
I can’t get through a daily paper anymore, but sometimes I do a quick glance at the headlines just to see where conventional opinion is heading.
Mind you, sites like NYT are catching up.
That was worth my getting out of bed this morning. I don't need much.
No, the “idea of the conspiratorial Muslim” is a fact. That’s what religions are, for the most part: conspiracies or, if you prefer, cooperative groups.
I once commented to Mrs. Anon that I saw a muslim woman in our neighborhood wearing a hijab. She asked if it completely covered her face. I said no, and she commented……..”Whore!”.
Mr. Anon:
Consider yourself very, very lucky to be associated with Mrs. Anon. Thank your lucky stars!!!
Not only is there alliteration but it follows the Rule of Three! That’s some powerful speechifying.
The Toronto Star. Please.
Maybe she’s aspiring to a job at CBC.
More of the left’s compulsive dishonesty. Who is “wrapping Muslims in flags”? Nobody.
Good. Post this article for all your progressive friends to see. Sow division among them.
Pictures of Kanji and her mother shown neither wear any head coverings. She was born in the U.K. and appears to be an upper class Indian Muslim.
They are quite often the leaders of left wing anti-white groups, especially 2nd generation children of successful professional immigrants from India and Pakistan.
Such 2nd gen Indian Muslims are like the Conquistador Americans who see themselves as the natural leaders of America’s rapidly growing mestizo and indio population.
Shepard Fairey strikes me as someone not bad at what he does.
But it does seem time for him to switch sides.
You’re welcome here, Shepard.
Why is the chubby anti-Trump Mongoloid man holding up the poster of the hijab Muslim woman? Is he a Muslim from Malaysia or Indonesia?
http://www.noorculturalcentre.ca/?page_id=13213
Pretty impressive, though probably quota-helped. It never fails to amaze me how pretty accomplished and high functioning folks deliver such primitive drivel, you’d expect something much better and (dis)ingenious.
This works fine until people start using these expressed-for-social-reasons ideas to think about reality. Then, suddenly, their decision about whether to vaccinate their kids is determined by what TV hosts they like. (Think of it as evolution in action.). Or worse, the whole country's decision about whether to invade Iraq or what kind of education reform to implement falls out of ideas being expressed to achieve social goals.
Mark Steyn wisely pointed out that we should be glad that the US flag is worth burning.
On a similar note from the Canadian equivalent of the New York Times:
We can’t let Canada’s politicians divide us with populist labels
Goldy Hyder is president and CEO of Hill+Knowlton Strategies (Canada)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to cancel his plans to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos so he can undertake a cross-country tour and engage directly with Canadians is a symptom of a much larger and more troubling trend where it has become increasingly fashionable for political leaders to frame public-policy decisions in terms of their potential impact on “ordinary,” “real” or “average” Canadians.
These terms, which are now at the heart of debates about everything from health-care funding to the benefits of globalization, have come to be used almost interchangeably with the equally popular “middle class.” To the extent that many Canadians consider themselves, rightly or wrongly, to be part of the middle class, these labels are intended to convey a sense of inclusiveness.
Yet the opposite is true. As we have seen in the United States and Britain, when these types of generic terms are used to describe large groups, they are generally defined on the basis of who they exclude: the so-called elites.
These terms are, in fact, inherently divisive. Just as few of us would self-identify as being “abnormal,” our characteristic Canadian modesty prevents us from thinking we are particularly exceptional. If we are not among those frequently maligned “elites,” we must therefore, be part of some “middle-class” majority. (Even the math holds up, as we’re told “elites” are only the top 1 per cent.)
The problem with vague terms like these is that they invite people to fill in the blanks with their own biases about who fits into each group – and we’ve seen the consequences that has had in other countries. Canadians should not be urged to divide themselves on the basis of income, education, ethnicity, religion or region. To do so would be to unravel our rich multicultural tapestry by pulling on loose threads.
We don’t want Canadians to be inherently distrustful of experts, to presume that a person is less ethical because they have a higher or lower net worth, or to believe that those with global outlooks aren’t patriotic. Any proliferation of populist labels risks creating an “us versus them” conflict within the country, something that can be exploited by those looking for an easy way to galvanize and mobilize a political base.
Some may suggest I am being alarmist, but I have spent the better part of my career in the field of communications, and in my professional experience our choice of language matters a great deal. It has also been my personal experience. As an immigrant and a Muslim, I have witnessed firsthand how quickly the word “different” becomes “foreign,” and how easily “foreign” can become “un-Canadian.”
At a certain point, assigning some meaning to arbitrary or artificial terms inevitably becomes a question of defining values. That is where things get complicated and where the real fissures can emerge. Canada’s 150-year story has many chapters in which divisions between people defined the politics of an era. Some of our worst mistakes have been made by governments in attempts to satisfy one group over another.
Without question, governments must consider the very different realities in which Canadians live when they develop policy res-ponses to pressing issues – but that is about technical implementation. What governments must avoid doing is using the levers of policy to divide Canadians on the basis of their different circumstances, as opposed to building a broad consensus based on shared values and interests.
Moreover, governments must avoid making decisions – such as whether to attend a global conference with the world’s most powerful economic stakeholders – based solely on the perceived optics of those decisions.
In these uncertain times, we cannot afford to make mistakes or miss opportunities. We need to seize every advantage we have, and that means ignoring those who call for us to marginalize or vilify others. Instead of targeting a particular class of Canadian – whether upper, lower or middle – let’s avoid entirely the temptation to engage in any type of class distinctions or, worse still, to inflame class warfare.
When the Fathers of Confederation created our country 150 years ago, they sought to unite us in common cause. Let us invoke that same spirit in this anniversary year by uniting Canadians, not dividing them.
I really doubt Mr. Kaepernick said “people of colour”. He may be half-black but that’s no reason to think he can’t spell right, like a Canadian. Quit with your stereotyping of people-of-coloooor as bad spellers* – they’ve been disadvantaged for crying out loud! (his grandpappy would have been whipped to near death on the plantation for less)
BTW, spell-check’s got a problem with BOTH the man’s last name AND the word color. I’d trust spell-check over your sorry rag-head ass any day of the week.
*It’s just the Canucks, the Limies, the Aussies, and Kiwies who have the horrible spelling problem.
Because they work hard at it. It doesn’t come from any innate brilliance. Most white males operate below their potential while most Asians/South Asians operate above their potential.
“Muslimah”? Shouldn’t that be ‘Muslimx’?
The Toronto Star was The Huffington Post before there was a Huffington Post. It reads exactly like you’d expect a newspaper written by second year journalism students who’ve all gotten into university on affirmative action scholarships to be.
The good news is, in recent months they’ve been forced to lay off hundreds. Still the propaganda continues. Like so much of the msm they’re determined to be ideologically correct even if it kills them.
You will typically get 3 or 4 of these type of columns from various victim groups when doing a quick scan of a weekday issue. There's also a lot of this stuff shoehorned into articles that have nothing to do with SJW issues.
I can't get through a daily paper anymore, but sometimes I do a quick glance at the headlines just to see where conventional opinion is heading.Replies: @Mike Zwick, @Frau Katze, @random observer
I always thought it was Canada’s version of Pravda.
If the Canadian and American flags (and countries) are so oppressive, maybe Ms Kanji can relocate to Karachi, where she can bask in the freedom accorded to her in an Islamic environment.
I can only sympathize with Azeezah’s ordeal. It pains me to think about the sufferings of this poor Mohammedan soul; life must be awful for Muslims among those racist Canadian right-wingers. Hopefully Toronto will soon elect a Muslim mayor to start the healing process. Hang in there Azeezah!
I agree with her, though for different reasons: it is a cynical and tactless campaign to wrap a transparently hostile ideology and people in patriotism.
But the author is missing one important factor: that the posters are designed not to comfort Muslims but to send a message to conservatives; the message being 'this isn't your flag and it isn't your country any more'. It's about who gets to define what being American means. Some have that right....and some clearly don't.Replies: @Marcus
“Canada and the United States were built on the dispossession and genocide of Indigenous peoples”
Emma Lazarus was contemporary to the conclusion of the Indian Wars. But doesn’t seem to have commented on it one way or another.
But non-white arrivals from the 1960's onwards like to talk about this supposed "dispossession" as it is very much a self-serving argument for them. "You whites shouldn't complain about us taking over because it never belonged to you in the first place" etc.
Canada is actually a really scary place now, and this article is a very accurate representation of Toronto and Vancouver (Canada’s biggest cities). These cities are almost totally Asian. I’ve heard of people going to public schools in Canada that are 85% Muslim, or 80% Asian. Canadian cities aren’t really white liberal anymore. Justin Trudeau is really a remanant of a bygone era.
Walk around Toronto at night, and you’ll notice there’s no whites around, only brown guys standing around. It’s actually more extreme than in Europe, but nobody really gives it thought, cause it’s Canada.
There was an article on VDare about this recently.
Current trends, of course.
Still I see your point in daily life. Toronto, Vancouver, even Ottawa have that vibe if you are around downtowns a lot. Ottawa is 23.7% non-white. You'd think more. Surprising to see it's more black than average for Canada.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
http://www.vdare.com/posts/post-canada-immigration-unmakes-the-great-white-north-but-invaders-worry-about-backlash
For a sane person, “injustice” and “inequality” are more clearly represented by forcing women to wear garments, mandated by an alien culture which has defined itself as being the opposition to our culture for a millennium and a half. Actually, our flags are our cultural symbols, and are therefore more meaningful to us than yours. If cultural and racial aliens find that provocative, then good.
But it does seem time for him to switch sides.
You're welcome here, Shepard.Replies: @Daniel Chieh, @attilathehen, @NOTA
Its time to return to the Jedi, Shepard.
Someone who desperately needs to be an organ donor and help the greater community with the parts of him that work. The brain clearly isn’t one of those parts.
But it does seem time for him to switch sides.
You're welcome here, Shepard.Replies: @Daniel Chieh, @attilathehen, @NOTA
No. Fairey has an Asian wife and offspring. Kanji should have researched Fairey – cherchez la femme/le homme. Fairey is on her side.
But it does seem time for him to switch sides.
You're welcome here, Shepard.Replies: @Daniel Chieh, @attilathehen, @NOTA
So next we’re gonna get posters of Kek with a flag-hijab?
Who is this Muslim to impugn any group when Muslims have a long and bloody history of oppressing others, enslaving them and exterminating Christians? Talk about hutzpah. Getting lectured by hypocrites is galling and should not go unchallenged.
It's incessant. Sites like the Toronto Star are more than happy to publish their rants.
Although the Chinese in Vancouver are very numerous, they seem pretty low key compared to Muslims. There aren't a lot of Muslims in Vancouver (compared to eastern Canada).
It's almost something positive about the astronomical house prices. It discourages the riff raff.
Almost. Some remember the "old days" and wonder how this whole thing started.
Most people, even most really smart and accomplished people, express ideas for social reasons that have little to do with the rightness or wrongness of the idea. Often, this is about using your expressed ideas as a badge of team membership; sometimes it’s tactical (a politician positioning himself to be hard to attack from the right, say). We are probably evolved at least as much to win these social battles as we are to correctly understand reality.
This works fine until people start using these expressed-for-social-reasons ideas to think about reality. Then, suddenly, their decision about whether to vaccinate their kids is determined by what TV hosts they like. (Think of it as evolution in action.). Or worse, the whole country’s decision about whether to invade Iraq or what kind of education reform to implement falls out of ideas being expressed to achieve social goals.
Well, its also true that historically we have a lot of evidence that high IQ people espouse some of the most insane ideas. Remember, cognitive bias affects all of us and we live in illusions, those with higher IQ can effectively delude themselves even further than usual.
I agree, I think there is a truth in what she says but not for the reasons she says. It’s an obvious piece of propaganda, which screams ‘you think Muslims aren’t patriotic, but look at this!’ But the posters are obviously the product of a white liberal mind engaged in wish fulfilment, so if anything their incongruity only goes to underscore the obvious cleavage between being a Muslim and being a part of a Western society.
But the author is missing one important factor: that the posters are designed not to comfort Muslims but to send a message to conservatives; the message being ‘this isn’t your flag and it isn’t your country any more’. It’s about who gets to define what being American means. Some have that right….and some clearly don’t.
I call BS on the author, where were Canada’s colonies?
Walk around Toronto at night, and you'll notice there's no whites around, only brown guys standing around. It's actually more extreme than in Europe, but nobody really gives it thought, cause it's Canada.
There was an article on VDare about this recently.Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @random observer
Cam, How true. I travelled to Toronto on business and I thought I was in Southeast Asia. Walk through the airport and look at all the turbans and headscarves on the desk staffs. Isn’t it funny that when these legal immigrants to Canada arrive, they self segregate, ergo, schools that are 80% or 85% visible minority. I think Trudeau’s political rise has more to do with party politics than his wide spread appeal.
We can’t let Canada’s politicians divide us with populist labels
Goldy Hyder is president and CEO of Hill+Knowlton Strategies (Canada)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to cancel his plans to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos so he can undertake a cross-country tour and engage directly with Canadians is a symptom of a much larger and more troubling trend where it has become increasingly fashionable for political leaders to frame public-policy decisions in terms of their potential impact on “ordinary,” “real” or “average” Canadians.
These terms, which are now at the heart of debates about everything from health-care funding to the benefits of globalization, have come to be used almost interchangeably with the equally popular “middle class.” To the extent that many Canadians consider themselves, rightly or wrongly, to be part of the middle class, these labels are intended to convey a sense of inclusiveness.
Yet the opposite is true. As we have seen in the United States and Britain, when these types of generic terms are used to describe large groups, they are generally defined on the basis of who they exclude: the so-called elites.
These terms are, in fact, inherently divisive. Just as few of us would self-identify as being “abnormal,” our characteristic Canadian modesty prevents us from thinking we are particularly exceptional. If we are not among those frequently maligned “elites,” we must therefore, be part of some “middle-class” majority. (Even the math holds up, as we’re told “elites” are only the top 1 per cent.)
The problem with vague terms like these is that they invite people to fill in the blanks with their own biases about who fits into each group – and we’ve seen the consequences that has had in other countries. Canadians should not be urged to divide themselves on the basis of income, education, ethnicity, religion or region. To do so would be to unravel our rich multicultural tapestry by pulling on loose threads.
We don’t want Canadians to be inherently distrustful of experts, to presume that a person is less ethical because they have a higher or lower net worth, or to believe that those with global outlooks aren’t patriotic. Any proliferation of populist labels risks creating an “us versus them” conflict within the country, something that can be exploited by those looking for an easy way to galvanize and mobilize a political base.
Some may suggest I am being alarmist, but I have spent the better part of my career in the field of communications, and in my professional experience our choice of language matters a great deal. It has also been my personal experience. As an immigrant and a Muslim, I have witnessed firsthand how quickly the word “different” becomes “foreign,” and how easily “foreign” can become “un-Canadian.”
At a certain point, assigning some meaning to arbitrary or artificial terms inevitably becomes a question of defining values. That is where things get complicated and where the real fissures can emerge. Canada’s 150-year story has many chapters in which divisions between people defined the politics of an era. Some of our worst mistakes have been made by governments in attempts to satisfy one group over another.
Without question, governments must consider the very different realities in which Canadians live when they develop policy res-ponses to pressing issues – but that is about technical implementation. What governments must avoid doing is using the levers of policy to divide Canadians on the basis of their different circumstances, as opposed to building a broad consensus based on shared values and interests.
Moreover, governments must avoid making decisions – such as whether to attend a global conference with the world’s most powerful economic stakeholders – based solely on the perceived optics of those decisions.
In these uncertain times, we cannot afford to make mistakes or miss opportunities. We need to seize every advantage we have, and that means ignoring those who call for us to marginalize or vilify others. Instead of targeting a particular class of Canadian – whether upper, lower or middle – let’s avoid entirely the temptation to engage in any type of class distinctions or, worse still, to inflame class warfare.
When the Fathers of Confederation created our country 150 years ago, they sought to unite us in common cause. Let us invoke that same spirit in this anniversary year by uniting Canadians, not dividing them.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
AKA, Trudeau’s cross country tour is going swimmingly. At a recent town hall a speaker told Trudeau, “You sir, are either dumb or a liar, or maybe both.” Well so much for civil discourse.
Johnny, And no comments allowed.
Well, I guess all the Canadian Snow Birds to the sunny shores of the southern US states will find a new country to winter in. Fort Erie, Ontario is about as far south as you can go in Canada and find a beach, but it’s just across the Peace Bridge from Buffalo. Maybe condo prices on Longboat key or Siesta key will start to drop as the Canadians find new digs in Cuba or DR. Adios, eh?
It’s not just Toronto but the smaller cities too. I used to be acquainted via the internet with a woman from London, Ontario. She was complaining about all the headscarves on the streets 7-8 years ago.
Emma Lazarus was contemporary to the conclusion of the Indian Wars. But doesn't seem to have commented on it one way or another.Replies: @biz, @Altai, @anon
Whereas we all know that when Muslims reached Pakistan and Africa those places were empty.
You will typically get 3 or 4 of these type of columns from various victim groups when doing a quick scan of a weekday issue. There's also a lot of this stuff shoehorned into articles that have nothing to do with SJW issues.
I can't get through a daily paper anymore, but sometimes I do a quick glance at the headlines just to see where conventional opinion is heading.Replies: @Mike Zwick, @Frau Katze, @random observer
The Toronto Star is a real rag.
Mind you, sites like NYT are catching up.
Re: Muslims lecture us about tolerance
It’s incessant. Sites like the Toronto Star are more than happy to publish their rants.
Although the Chinese in Vancouver are very numerous, they seem pretty low key compared to Muslims. There aren’t a lot of Muslims in Vancouver (compared to eastern Canada).
It’s almost something positive about the astronomical house prices. It discourages the riff raff.
Almost. Some remember the “old days” and wonder how this whole thing started.
Emma Lazarus was contemporary to the conclusion of the Indian Wars. But doesn't seem to have commented on it one way or another.Replies: @biz, @Altai, @anon
It’s a meaningless argument. How does her presence enhance the sovereignty of the native peoples? It doesn’t. She wants to be a part of the settler nation, she wants the fruits of that colonisation.
If no East Asians had come to New Zealand the Maori population would compose a bigger proportion and have more political and social focus, ditto for Canada and the US. The biggest victims of all this will be the native peoples who will be facing even more social and economic competition and be totally forgotten in identity politics, not dissimilar to how all this will be the total wrecking of Black America for another few generations just like how the great wave cut them off at the knees.
Right on. Which she played no role in creating. So she spins self serving arguments to "justify" it.
Arguing facts not in evidence. Name ’em.
You mean Sith. Don’t tell us you’ve fallen for that Jedi propaganda!
It annoys me a lot to see the bone-headed, reflexive leftism regurgitated by Muslims in the media.
I spent 10 years growing up in Pakistan, if Ms Kanji and the other useless, whinging, parasites of her ilk spent extended time there it would give them some valuable perspective.
But the author is missing one important factor: that the posters are designed not to comfort Muslims but to send a message to conservatives; the message being 'this isn't your flag and it isn't your country any more'. It's about who gets to define what being American means. Some have that right....and some clearly don't.Replies: @Marcus
Yes, as dishonest as Muslim women are, every once in a while they inadvertently let some very revealing truths slip out.
For the benefit of Americans, the TORONTO STAR is an extreme left-wing liberal cultural Marxist newspaper. It is 100% for non-white immigration. The paper has fallen on hard times of late. The sooner it goes belly up the better.
Btw, the only “dispossession” occurring in Canada – which had no slavery – is being done to whites by people like the writer of this article.
Emma Lazarus was contemporary to the conclusion of the Indian Wars. But doesn't seem to have commented on it one way or another.Replies: @biz, @Altai, @anon
There were all of about 300,000 indigenous people in Canada when European settlement commenced. This in a landmass of 3,800,000+ square miles. This would be the equivalent of about 4,000 people on the whole island of Great Britain which actually has a population of about 60,000,000. Canada was actually an empty country. Even today vast areas are uninhabited.
But non-white arrivals from the 1960’s onwards like to talk about this supposed “dispossession” as it is very much a self-serving argument for them. “You whites shouldn’t complain about us taking over because it never belonged to you in the first place” etc.
She wants the fruits of that colonisation,
Right on. Which she played no role in creating. So she spins self serving arguments to “justify” it.
My letter to the Star will most likely not be printed, as I could not get it down to 150 words or less and it’s the red Star after all. It’s THE house organ of the Canadian left, at least among real media.
I last read it regularly when I lived there 20 years ago and it was already bad, although not as much identity politics.
Lovely to see in it what my youthful endorsement of a free and liberal society and my country’s commitment to multiculturalism has purchased.
We last year had a former Conservative minister of Indian ancestry speak disparagingly of the “old Canada”. You know, the one that admitted him.
You will typically get 3 or 4 of these type of columns from various victim groups when doing a quick scan of a weekday issue. There's also a lot of this stuff shoehorned into articles that have nothing to do with SJW issues.
I can't get through a daily paper anymore, but sometimes I do a quick glance at the headlines just to see where conventional opinion is heading.Replies: @Mike Zwick, @Frau Katze, @random observer
“It’s like a Guardian for the mentally handicapped”
That was worth my getting out of bed this morning. I don’t need much.
Walk around Toronto at night, and you'll notice there's no whites around, only brown guys standing around. It's actually more extreme than in Europe, but nobody really gives it thought, cause it's Canada.
There was an article on VDare about this recently.Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @random observer
You may be overstating a bit. The actual numbers show Toronto and Vancouver becoming majority minority in about 2031 on current trends. The rest of Canada would take far longer.
Current trends, of course.
Still I see your point in daily life. Toronto, Vancouver, even Ottawa have that vibe if you are around downtowns a lot. Ottawa is 23.7% non-white. You’d think more. Surprising to see it’s more black than average for Canada.
Whaaaaat? That's more of an oxymoron than "extreme moderation"!
C'mon guys, give the PC a break. Say what you mean, please, this ain't your workplace (expect for Steve).
We should also be glad that the country that flag represents is still worth preserving?
Current trends, of course.
Still I see your point in daily life. Toronto, Vancouver, even Ottawa have that vibe if you are around downtowns a lot. Ottawa is 23.7% non-white. You'd think more. Surprising to see it's more black than average for Canada.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Whaaaaat? That’s more of an oxymoron than “extreme moderation”!
C’mon guys, give the PC a break. Say what you mean, please, this ain’t your workplace (expect for Steve).
How about Mueslix?
Here’s Another One.
The Toronto Star is the main mouthpiece of the regressive left in Canada. It is also totally shameless when it comes to fake news. For example, in December it ran the story about the Jewish family that supposedly got chased out of their small Pennsylvanian hometown a day after it had been debunked. They then printed no correction nor retraction in the print edition.
They’re big on printing screeds by non-whites about how evil white Canadians are because their ancestors turned Canada into a place that Somalis and Chinese actually want to live.