NightOwl
CanadaI hold white supremacist ideology in the same contempt as I do Canada becoming a 51st state. Why is all the bad stuff learned from our cultural link with the usa? Why is there a percentage of us who adopt it? Media. Let's start countering the hate messages with love and support. There are a lot of citizens in free-fall and disconnected from the political/economical world at large, and more of them everyday. Canadian media should work for the citizenry, not shaping policy for billionaire overlords like in our culturally linked neighbour down south.
LMAO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_genocide_of_Indigenous_peoples
wHy iS aLL tHE bAD sTUff cOMiNg FrOm AmeriCa
Probably because arrogant twats refuse to reckon with and address the inherent sins of any colonizer state.
It's always so much easier to blame foreigners after all.
Also, Canada actively imported fascists after the end of WW2 to break up the nascent labor movement. There's a reason we still have a bunch of nazi monuments here.
- https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/fascism-in-canada
- https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/10/13/Canada-Let-Thousands-Former-Nazis/
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- https://jacobin.com/2023/09/honoring-nazi-canada-parliament-history-world-war-ii-holocaust-trudeau
- To Crush Left-Wing Organizing, Canada Embraced Ukrainian Nazi Collaborators
- Cold War fears fueled bitter labour battle. RCMP report says Inco imported ex-Nazis to undermine unions
- Historian finds list of suspected nazis
We had Japanese Camp in BC that were awful but POW camp in Alberta where Nazi escaped and come back because it was easier to live in than to try to survive hidden. Deux poids, deux mesures like we say
yup...
because all the bad stuff is coming from america
amen hoser
all the little fight club boyfriends are growing up and getting real jobs, micro penis derangement syndrome must be crippling
The yankee funded racist propaganda wont work here, but the bad actors will pour a lot of money into it until they get distracted by killing each other
Stay strong hosers
The yankee funded racist propaganda wont work here
It does though. The trucker convoy demographic has only become louder and more belligerent since trump was re-elected. I work with a lot of construction contractors and they are almost uniformly of the "Fuck Trudeau", pickup truck, Alberta ostrich conspiracy, variety.
...well works to an extent
I have met some of those same people, and fortunately for all of us, they are small vocal minority
they are small vocal minority
The problem people often are.
But their disproportionately noisy message also manages to get itself heard far more than it deserves, which allows it to be more influential than it deserves to be.
Quelle surprise. Our media is mostly owned by American billionaire interests.
Damn if only a Majority Liberal government could do something about what Harper caused.
I would be ok with us ownership of Canadian News sites to be illegal.
America made Rupert Murdoch give up Australian citizenship to own a major media network in America.
The Camp of the Saints was written by the French author Jean Raspail in 1973. Celestini describes it as a dystopian novel about a caravan of immigrants coming to Europe by boat from an unspecified South Asian country.
The migrants are depicted in an unambiguously racist way: as rapists, as people who sell their children for money and do other degrading acts and as a threat to European society.
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The book has been referenced by Stephen Miller, the architect of the Trump administration’s brutal attempt to increase deportations and imprisonment of immigrants in U.S. cities. Steve Bannon, a former strategist for U.S. President Donald Trump, has also talked about the book.
The National Post’s review of the book acknowledges that the novel is “generally considered a racist book towards Indians.” But the bulk of the piece is devoted to arguing the book’s ideas and warnings about “third-world migration” have merit and should be more widely read.
Lmao, oh, are they? Wow, I mean, at least the totally-not-white-supremacist-genocidal-settler-state Canada made it all the way to 2026 without white supremacy entering its media and politics.
you seem nice
That'd be correct
We're easy marks, we grow up with no real identity to be proud of, no real connection to a canonical past, very little in common with our white neighbours. It's very easy to make us blame tall women or ethnic and racial minorities for our problems, people who don't line up with the fairy tale we're told. We elect the folksy white guy who is looking out for himself and his rich friends, and when we can't find a home we can afford or have to wait 4 hours in the ER, when we aren't the center of the world, it's easy to blame someone near us but superficially different, who we probably don't even talk to because we are looking at screens 20 hours a day.
but we're all in the same meat grinder together, except for the people turning the crank
I'd add a bit to that -- in that many older millennial white guys, also encountered things like workplaces/governments that overtly said "We can't hire you because you aren't a member of an equity employment group" (eg. a woman, a non-white person, a lgbtq+ person, or a FN person). I personally heard that from the fed govt and a couple potential employers around 2005. We encountered that sort of systemic racism in our lifetimes, something that most other demos have had legal protections against for generations now. People we grew up with, went through the whole education system with, didn't face those hurdles even though they had functionally the same background - or, in many cases, more privileged backgrounds as many asians/non-whites have a good bit of wealth that's transferred in to the country. Those people then often preached to us about our privilege, and how we should accept our diminished role, let everyone else speak first, etc etc... Universities are one area where this sort of thing shows up in spades, where the liberal arts basically ostracized white guys / shoved them to the fringe.
There are news stories about FN people who've quite literally stabbed/killed a white-guy stranger in an elevator, fleeing the scene after... and the FN person gets off with no jail time because of "historic wrongs done to the FN peoples", basically we have a race-based justice system which is absolutely not blind/impartial. And that racist system was established/re-enforced by our first FN AG, Jodie Wilson-Raybould, who also triggered the revolving door of our prisons with her bail reforms -- which were enacted, essentially, to try and get racial equity in terms of who's locked up, objective concepts of justice be damned. And there are lesser examples, more mundane but equally racist in scope, of things like FN status holders getting discounted rates at things like FN gas stations -- white people had 'systemic privilege' in the past, but FN people get to pay $0.15 less at the pump due to how systems are setup today. Or we see cases like the Cowichan band's toxic dump situation, where the FN put out this 'image' of being some sort of noble custodians of nature, demanding that the evil white colonial system give them power / authority.... but when one of their own people sets up an illegal toxic dump site on Cowichan lands, it's on the public tax payers to clean it up.
It's fairly easy / common to see these sorts of stories, where white guys/people are expected to accept poor treatment as individuals, because of a justification that 'white people did bad stuff' historically. Ignoring/ridiculing the real/tangible 'personal' life experiences of today's white middle-aged people, is basically a gateway to radicalization for that demo and younger white guys. Expressing/commenting on those sorts of experiences in mixed company/public, generally just gets you even more scorn. White nationalists are more willing to listen to those sorts of grievances, and then declare extreme actions the only way to effect change. In some ways, it's structured very similar to social movements from more militant/aggressive minority groups historically -- like the FLQ in Quebec, not getting heard by the Govt, turning to violence during Trudeau Sr's term. Or even less violent, but equally ignored groups who also had legitimate, but neglected, issues -- like the women's rights movements. If we turn a blind eye to the potentially legitimate concerns of a demo, it isn't too surprising that they become increasingly radicalized.
