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Originally Posted by jayswin
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.  |
I think you’re either misunderstanding me or twisting my words.
1. My mom did not say it’s not ok to defend a minority group. She found it amusing it’s happening. Mildly offended by it? Maybe. Enough to get a rise out of her? No. I was just trying to share an observation that I thought was interesting.
2. ‘Us vs them’. Again, please don’t misunderstand or twist the meaning of what I’m saying. What I’m saying, to be clearer, is that I don’t like the deliberate division of people and the increasing intensity of it.. Yeah, Cherry got fired for it. That is something I support. Your passive aggressive emoji was unnecessary.
3. One of the tools to divide people is to feel good about punishment. I support the punishment of Cherry but am saddened by it. I’m disturbed by the people who needed it to feel good. Alternatively, I’m also disturbed by the people who are so upset by it it evolves into anger. To be clear, I’m not seeing a whole lot of this behaviour from you or on this board.
I think it’s ok to have conflicting feelings and thoughts about this sort of thing. Which I do.