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Originally Posted by zuluking
Everyone likes vanilla?
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You know, I was thinking for the best analogy to what his thought process is, and I think that's it.
If you have a bowl of vanilla ice cream and put chocolate sauce on it, you have a chocolate sundae; put strawberry on it and you have a strawberry sundae. On the other hand, if you put chocolate sauce on strawberry ice cream, or strawberry on chocolate ice cream, you'd have some weird chocolate/strawberry amalgam and the flavours would compete with each other.
Strawberry sauce on chocolate ice cream may taste like strawberries, but you know it's still really chocolate underneath.
I think this is legitimately the thought process that some old white men have. They're the vanilla ice cream, so they can represent any flavour you mix them with. The non-vanilla people will always affect the flavour of whatever they're mixed with.
I don't personally believe that, but having lived in a house with an old white man most of my life, and hearing some of his political opinions (and I have an uncle who goes to a whole other level), I think that's likely what many of them think.
I know that if my parents still lived in Calgary, there's no way my father would have voted for Nenshi, and probably wouldn't have voted for Higgins either, regardless of whatever either of their platforms were.
I'm actually glad Leech hasn't apologized because you know that this is what he truly believes and any apology would just be a hollow platitude. Let him live or die based on this.