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Originally Posted by Jbo
Seeing the comments on the Flames and Stampeders website is disappointing and really makes me feel like this city is not nearly as progressive as we like to think. Actually makes me kind of sad. This strikes me a little closer to home today. Some of the comments about Burke and Jon Cornish were downright savage.
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Haha, speaking of that, I had one of those mild heart sinking moments on youtube the other day. I was watching a viral social experiment video of how Canadians react when a Muslim is mistreated in public.
The racist actor gets berated and eventually punched by some redneck looking guys who stood up for him. Anyways, despite the awfulness of youtube comments I decided to read some on this video and it was actually really nice.
Just comment after comment of Muslims from other countries saying they want to move to Canada and people from all over the world saying how great Canada is and how amazing the people were here when they visited, etc. It was really heart warming and a huge Canada lovefest until....
"Canada is amazing but I heard the city of Calgary is quite difficult to live in as a minority", followed by a couple dozen responses just to that post with support for the idea that Calgary and Alberta aren't very welcoming or friendly for minorities.
My first thought was "of course that would happen while I was enjoying these comments for once", but there's some days I think the idea that Alberta is behind when it comes to equality and acceptance is BS and there's days where I think it's deserved.