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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
But back to the root of it, a lot of his comments are the type of quiet racism that is really damaging. It's the making fun of names:
“Alpo? Isn't that a dog food?"
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As a child from a European immigrant family with foreign sounding names, it wasn't great watching HNIC as a kid to hear Cherry spout off about how he felt people like us were effeminate losers. The name thing, I get it when it when people honestly mispronounce it and don't get offended by that, but Cherry would always do the "accidentally on purpose" thing thinking it was funny. I put up with a lot of that as kid from other kids and even sometimes adults like teachers in school. Having a Canadian icon on TV making it seem like a funny and cool thing to do probably didn't help.
Unrelated, what were the things in MacLean's book that were eye opening to you? I never read it and don't really have a burning desire to, but now I am really curious.