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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
We agree, he chose some wrong words.
I think it also skirts the issue to ignore the intent of his actual point.
He was taking issue with people who don’t value the contribution of veterans
Would he take issue with immigrants that don’t value veterans? Probably
Would he also take issue with Canadians that don’t value veterans? I don’t doubt it
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Sure, but what you’re talking about is the entire difference between a perfectly reasonable statement and an unreasonable one.
If I say “people who come to our country need to learn how to drive, they’re bad drivers, I see them all the time being bad drivers, they need to learn how to drive” then that’s an unreasonable statement. I might very well take issue with non-immigrant Canadians who are bad drivers, but I didn’t say that. I could have, but I didn’t.
You can assume his intent. You can even work real hard to justify his intent and dismiss the issue, as you’re doing. But that doesn’t remove the issue from existing. And before you say “I’m not dismissing the issue, I admitted he said wrong words,” your entire focus is “it’s not technically racism, that’s not his intent” etc.
It’s an issue. Delivery matters. What people say matters because often times that’s the only way to express your intent. And if what he said didn’t match his intent, that’s on him to clarify and apologise. It’s completely fair to ask him to do that.