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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Racial profiling and discrimination is the most ridiculous and backwater in Calgary than in any other major Canadian city.
I'm Asian and have been kept out of clubs multiple occasions - so much that it's disgusted me and I don't want to go through the experience again. I've tested it out once, and was rejected from 6 in a row one night by discriminatory bouncers. B.S. like wanting 5 pieces of ID, not being 25 (when other non-ethnic minority friends that were with me and also not 25 got in ahead of me), Not having proper attire (when again, other friends with sneakers and jeans got into tantra when we tested it out one night)....and just a whole lot of other bs, manhandling, and arrogance.
I had friends from Vancouver and Toronto who encountered this racist crap at Calgary clubs and were disgusted and shocked as they had never had this happen to them in their own cities.
I try to defend Alberta from redneck comments that people from other provinces make because I love this place, but in regard to Calgary and certain aspects of it, I think that description is fully accurate if even a little too lenient.
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I wonder has the press has ever done any features on this situation. If the local press doesn't see it as a story I bet the national press will. I could see the Fifth Estate being interested. They could do an undercover survey of all the major cities in Canada to see which had the worsed night clubs.