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bcb · 01-02-2009, 04:57 PM

Responding to Bobblehead:

"Where did the "Sarnia is Canada's worse slum" come from? Is that a Michael Moore thing?"

In Moore's movie "Bowling for Columbine", Moore visited several Canadian "slums", small towns in southern Ontario, of which Sarnia was one, I believe. The point is, he neglected to visit the crime ridden parts of large cities, which skewed his logic.

"Canada with a superiority/inferiority/snob complex? Covering all the bases there, aren't you."

Superiority: "Canada is better than the US"
Inferiority: "Unlike the US, we have no national identity or cohesion, so we'll just put down the US"
Snob: "Canada cannot possible have a crime rate similar to the US, we're too good for that"

"Would you care to provide any proof of your claim about the parts of those Canadian cities and their crime rates, or are we just supposed to accept it as true?"

You're right, I didn't look at any peer-reviewed sources to quantitatively prove my point; however, several newspaper columns over the past year have referenced the fact that our violent crime rate (in parts of major cities) is increasing.

01-02-2009, 04:57 PM	#47
bcb Scoring Winger Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Calgary Exp:	Responding to Bobblehead: "Where did the "Sarnia is Canada's worse slum" come from? Is that a Michael Moore thing?" In Moore's movie "Bowling for Columbine", Moore visited several Canadian "slums", small towns in southern Ontario, of which Sarnia was one, I believe. The point is, he neglected to visit the crime ridden parts of large cities, which skewed his logic. "Canada with a superiority/inferiority/snob complex? Covering all the bases there, aren't you." Superiority: "Canada is better than the US" Inferiority: "Unlike the US, we have no national identity or cohesion, so we'll just put down the US" Snob: "Canada cannot possible have a crime rate similar to the US, we're too good for that" "Would you care to provide any proof of your claim about the parts of those Canadian cities and their crime rates, or are we just supposed to accept it as true?" You're right, I didn't look at any peer-reviewed sources to quantitatively prove my point; however, several newspaper columns over the past year have referenced the fact that our violent crime rate (in parts of major cities) is increasing. __________________ “The fact is that censorship always defeats it's own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.” Henry Steel Commager (1902-1998)