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Originally Posted by sketchyt
My mom is an immigrant. I asked her about the whole Don Cherry saga/debacle. Her words, translated:
"I disagree with him. I think it's funny that other people are telling me what I should be offended about though."
I've asked other extended family. More or less the same comments.
IMO, Cherry was wrong. Should've been fired. You can't say stuff like that in a public position as an employee but that should be the end of it.
The joyful glee I see from some people from the firing is disturbing to me. The 'us' vs 'them', left vs right, you're a snow flake / you're a racist... lowest common denominator style of thinking that is becoming more and more pervasive in Canadian culture is something I'm not used to in this country and is something I don't like.
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Okay, well fist of all, with all due respect to your mom it's actually perfectly okay for a society of citizens to defend a minority group (say, immigrants).
They're not telling individual immigrants what they should and shouldn't be offended by, that's absurd. They're speaking out against something that is offensive to many immigrants and non-immigrants. Very different things.
Secondly, you grouped "us vs them" into your list of issues that are permeating Canadian culture that you don't like....but that's exactly what Don Cherry was doing, and it's ultimately what got him fired.
