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The "Employment Equity Act" forces racism in Canada because it requires employers in Canada to discriminate on the basis of race when making hiring decisions.

This is the crap that causes extremism. And if you want yo see real trouble just keep calling all white people racist. So irresponsible.

Diversity in all things except opinion to quote a comment on the CBC website. People on the left don't understand that by going this route they create extremism. Is like a never ending cycle. There are a few people on this forum that have opinions that are out there (more on the right I might add) but I think is very good to allow people an environment to express their views because if we don't, those same people will go underground and become extreme. Suppression of thought is the worst thing you can do to a human being. It goes against every value of our democratic system.

Stockwell Day had the gall to deny Canada is a racist country. For that he has been shunned, fired, and dumped from his jobs with a law firm, with Telus, and as a contributor to CBC's power panels. You are not permitted to stand up for Canada any more. You are not permitted to publicly deny this is a shitty, racist country with 'systemic racism' everywhere. If you do, the Left will destroy you. "We have to recognize that our system is not perfect in Canada," Day said during the panel discussion. "Yes, there's a few idiot racists hanging around but Canada is not a racist country and most Canadians are not racist. And our system, that always needs to be improved, is not systemically racist." https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stockwell-day-systemic-racism-canada-1.5597550

I just watched the video, and I don't think she's scared lol, but I agree that she's in danger. I hope she runs for office, I'd like to see her talk to AOC lol.

What did I write in my final sentence? Is Trump named there? I certainly do not blame Trump 'for everything' at all, as I have made clear. In the US, and elsewhere, you can add globalization and automation to other causes for alienation between the elites and everybody else. Trump is merely a symptom of America's malaise, a hastily mocked-up facsimile of white nationalism that may pave the way for something and somebody far more dangerous down the road.

Trudeau alienated Alberta. There's no other way for a reasonable person to see that.

Everyone is inherently prone to making negative stereotypes about others because our brains are designed (wired) to take exterior stimuli that bombards us at a rapid pace and try organize it. This process of taking otherwise random or unrelated external stimuli/information and turning it into recognizable objects or patterns is called "apophenia" and as we put recognizable objects or patterns into sub-categorieswe call itpareidolia. A racist taks this phenomena and then uses their subjective perception of the diifference in physical characteristics of others as compared to themself to define the other and assign that other identical values they also assign to others who they think look the same. This is not surprising since all homo sapiens being primates and therefore pack animals first learned to identify other packs by different physical characteristics. However most of us now have evolved past assuming others have the same values or believes simply because they have the same skin tone or lip size or hair texture. We have learned such characteristics are secondary and immaterial to determining our similarity with others and it is in fact dna and blood type that determine our similarity. In forensic psychology and forensic psychiatry, we try decipher the thinking processes behind the motives for a criminal act or a perceived wrongdoing. So in the case of the police officer who put his knee on the victim, we decipher the cognitive processes leading up to, during and after the decision to knee the other person. In so doing we analyze the motives for the behaviour. What was inescapable in the video was the lack of emotion in the police officer characteristic of a desensitised individual. Having been part of this process I can tell you in most abuse cases we find the abuser became desensitised to the person they abused based on "familiarity" or negative assumptions stored in their mind based on interactions with that same person or others similar to that same person they abused. We also have found when an abuser first abuses they might feel some remorse but the more they abuses the easier it is for them to abuse until it becomes a reflex action with no necessary planning or premeditation. With those we call sociopaths they are born with no ability to feel any empathy for others so engaging in physical harm of others is done without any feeling. Its an action with no feeling attached. Trying to differentiate a sociopath from a desensitised individual can be difficult as both may show zero signs of emotion when they abuse. Next to say the violence exhibited by the police officer was only stimulated by phenomena other than skin colour because other officers also attack people of their own skin colour is illogical. The two acts although both abusive would have beentriggered by a series of different thought processes and ensuing reflex actions unique to each act of abuse. Every act of abuse has its own unique characteristics. The fact is may have common characteristics to other crimes does not make them the same or motivated the same way. What we know is current case is this officer had negative assumptions about this individual prior to his arrest. So for someone to rule out part of the officer's abuse process was triggered by negative familiarity with blacks is absurd. It would be impossible not to be. We all will use the prevailing physical characteristics of an individual to define them whether we attack them or vice versa. That would be a reflex reaction process triggered so quicky we would not be aware of it at the time of the intense moment or incident. Finally to be able to abuse someone one would have to have entered a head space where they see that person as less than human. That is what densitisation is. It happens over a period of time from repeat exposure to others with similar behaviours and characteristics than then breeds familiarity and then in the case of negative assumptions triggered from similar feelings to past persons with the same characteristics a lack of remorse, guilt, or compassion. The tape shows a police offer in a classic state of desenitisation. He was able for 9 minutes a man pleading with him to stop. This is how ordinary men become monsters. Its not hard. ll you have to do is give them Give them unlimited power over others. You all remember the test with the students asked to push buttons. On the other side was a person who each time a new button was pushed screamed louder. The vast majority of people when told to keep increasing the pain did just that simply by being asked.

A. He was a second rater when he was cancelled. B. He had no right to protest on his employer's time, in his employer's uniform, at his employer's workplace, especially in a way which would outrage the employer's customers.

Yes, it actually is. It's a denunciation of the entire country, but of course, since progressive never think non-whites can be racist, it's a denunciation of White Canada. White Canada, which has, over the decades, permitted millions of non-whites to immigrate here, and welcomed them, then gets denounced by these same people as racists. Well how about if these visible minorities just pick up their shit and go back where they came from? I'm sure the people of India, Pakistan, Iran, China, Malaysia, Somalia, Jamaica and Nigeria are far more enlightened. What is systemic racism? Name it. Give me examples. Or shut up about it. Bullshit. I'm not going to take your complaints about some kind of magical, mystical nationwide systemic racism at face value. Show it. Prove it.

And your picture of a black man being victimized by excessive force in an arrest (when this sort of thing can happen to any race, including whites) does not show systematic racism or necessarily suggest any racism at all as you suggest it does. Statistical facts show blacks are not persecuted by police or anybody else worse than other races. I'm willing to listen if you have any facts supporting the idea blacks are currently victims of a special broad sort of persecution by whites or any other race. Your picture wasn't doing it. That was my point.

jacee you're beating a dead horse. Idiot Liberals lost this argument a long time ago, and Dr Tam even admitted it. Bringing some Canadians home and quarantining them wouldn't have led to 7,500 Canadians dead, and the absolute economic carnage that we face now. What proper logic or reason gives you the impression that blocking travel from a covid hotspot like Italy or China is xenophobic? Are you giving lessons in what bigotry looks like? Have you finally seen enough of it in your mirror to really know what it looks like? This is idiocy. You think you have proof that only returning Canadians brought covid over? Lol. your posts are priceless, in their own way.

My point is the fact it also happened to a white person does not poof make the act on the black man's act conveniently not racist and therefore an excuse for you to trivialize its significance. Oh I get it. Why do Jews make such a big deal about the holocaust, other people died too. Why do blacks get so upset about police brutality it happens to everyone. Your entire response is predicated on denying how evil may impact on specific groups differently than other groups because you refuse to accept reality and the idea that maybe your sweeping generalizations used as a device to ignore a specific group's collective experiences simply are your deliberate exercise of denying them. Your point is and you just showed it again, you know damn well a senseless attack by a white man on a black man would trigger the same reaction as a black man attacking a white man, but in your world you will engage in evasive bullshit to deny that phenomena because it does not suit your agenda. Oh I got your point and you got my point. You just talk around it. Go on complete your argument. Tell black people they have no right to be afraid of police in the US because they are brutal with everyone not just blacks. Repeat it. Repeat the sheer idiocy and lack of common sense, logic and decency in your answer..hey man don't worry he killed him but he kills whites too. Poof its all good. Save your trivialization and denial. Been there done that. Go on finish your agenda. Lecture us all on how this is no big deal for blacks or anyone. What's my point? That it has a direct impact on all black people across the world for reasons only a black person feel at one level, then impacts on all the rest of us who have any sense of humanity at another level and then there are people like you who will engage in defective and illogical reasoning to deny the feelings of the others whether they are black or white when seeing such shit. My point is you deliberately choose the device of trivialization to deny the legitimacy of the feelings of others. My point is you have an agenda to trivialize and deny the feelings of others and use a tragedy as a pretext and excuse to dictate to blacks to shut the phack up and then for people like me to and blacks to shut the phack upand accept brutal cold blooded murder as no big deal because it happens all the time. Save it. I know you and your point. It got 6 million of my people exterminated. It is what causes good people to look the other way in silence as others are killed. Wrong person to make your point to. When a uniformed person abusing power to be brutal and kill, my spirit is connected to a greater collective one that rises from the ashes of every grave of all people who experience or experienced orbwere slaughtered by the cabuse of government authority. Our souls and memories create our collective, connected, shared sense of grief and although were are many different people our pain is the same and we never rest, we never forget and when soldiers and police gather to remember the dead we also show up to bare witness witness to them for trying to end such crap. You underestimate how this collective memory of the dead surfaces at such times in many expressions to tell us to stand up for humane treatment. Your point is to try block the feelings we incite. Given your number of times trying to deny what happened you might ask yourself, if it's no big deal why the need to debate it with me or anyone. Dud you really think trying to deflect from what happened by saying it happens to whites made if go away?

You do this ever time you respond to a post, you make outrageous claims. I did NOT suggest taking away any freedoms, or associations, and assemblies....What i did say was we as a nation have given these specials interest groups more than just the freedoms we all enjoy, we also provide the stage so they can preach their ideas. Take the LGBQ special interest group, not only have we given them they're special space but we set aside an entire month for their cause, and god forbid if you do not participate in the parade....or on the other hand god forbid they use the parade to exclude other groups such as police or military, or whom ever they want to discriminate against....this is just one example there are so many special interest groups today , and each one is trying to scream over the other, ensuring nothing gets done in this country.. What I was suggesting is taking away the national stages we provide, like an entire month devoted to just LGBTQ issues... and treat everyone the same.

Actually has a big chance. Drooling morons will vote for him.

If you pick up a magnifying glass you can find problems everywhere. Maybe when we can change our DNA we can have a perfect place, until then I am sorry to be skeptical of this utopia you want. For example, I know of a case of someone from Algeria that applied to a subway store a few years ago and when he called to follow up he was lectured how bad muslims are in India and he won't be able to get the job. When my aquintance informed the person on the other line that he will seek legal action he was told "I don't care" and he hanged up the phone. Now I can easily pick up the same magnifying glass and start making generalizations but then I realize that there is a percentage of individuals in every group that revert to tribalism. In Canada that percentage is minimal, everything else is propaganda against this great country. The average individual in each group just wants a good life for their family unfortunetely some listen to agitators that are telling them: "It is us vs them". Is a nice way to keep society distracted and make some money on division.

Right Right, the more someone screams about racism and tries to lecture the more it seems yourself most likely are a racist. Canada racist ? You should go on a trip to Russia Ukraine Romania Hungary, Austria. Is hard to see when you don't have a relative point to go by. Fear and being talked down to people makes individuals choose irrationally like Trump's election. Don't think you are more superior, any human being in the right circumstances can make irrational choices.

What does white people have to do with what he said ? I have to say, if I was some broke white guy somewhere in the MidWest, the economy and automatization took away my job and on top you have people talking about me being a white guy (like I should feel guilty about it just because I am sharing an opinion), I think even with my education, in that scenario I would vote for Trump. You can't have a conversation anymore without identity politics.

Fair enough, all I'm saying is that authoritarianism is worse in Canada. We don't riot or protest because we've lost our will to do so. We have universal healthcare, and quite honestly, that's all we care about. We can have our freedoms taken and be taxed until July, but Canadians are all OK with this because we have healthcare. We're actually quite arrogant about it too.

I think we have given too many special interest groups a voice, and a stage to be heard, (more on the left side) and now today they are all screaming at the same time, and nobody is really hearing anything, and if this country wants to move forward it has got to have the blessing from a majority of these groups or there are protests / road closures etc.. making it almost impossible to get anything down...

Jester Trudeau pissed away a mountain of tax-payer $$ before the Covid crisis, alienated the western provinces, cleaved this country along regional-economic-racial lines, and spooked-off any serious investment. A wonderful leader. A traitor.

Rex Murphy injecting just a bit of sanity into the pompous virtue signalling of our Canada-hating Liberals. Rex Murphy: Canada is not a racist country, despite what the Liberals say To any fair mind, Canada is a mature, welcoming, open-minded and generous country. It would be helpful if these Liberals kept the full story of this country in mind when discussing racism https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-canada-is-not-a-racist-country-despite-what-the-liberals-say

I'm the only person on the entire planet who says that thousands upon thousands of flights continued to pour into the US? That is bizarre.

We've had some provinces and smaller regions setting good examples too. BC was looking like it had the potential to turn into a real hot spot but all in all I'd say we're pretty bloody happy with how things are turning out. Zero cases on Vancouver Island for at least a couple weeks now. I attribute a lot to the sheer willingness of British Columbians to pay attention to experts as well as to developments unfolding in other parts of the world to inform their actions. A lot of success here and elsewhere is also just as attributable to NOT following the examples some places were setting. I don't recall a lot of British Columbians sitting around waiting for Ottawa or Trudeau to give us directions before figuring out what worked best for us on our own. In that sense the best thing Ottawa did was stay out of the way.

So far it's led to lifting billions of people around the world out of extreme poverty.

I will pretend that I did not read the second point by rationalizing that you are so far brainwashed and I won't take it personally, you are just a communist agitator that does not understand the value of hard work and having original ideas to produce and deliver a service to another human being. I spent some time to understand along the years why human beings commit such atrocities towards other human beings and I came to the conclusion it all boils down to the group mentality. It does not matter if it is communism, fascism, white nationalism, black nationalism, Asian nationalism, Hindu theocracy, Muslim theocracy even Buddhism nationalism/theocracy in Myanmar . Some are reactions to others and is hard to say who started it all. The chicken or the egg ? People at the individual level are good, but if they go in an organized group combined with some economic insecurity they commit atrocities that's precisely why focusing on the individual is the key to freedom and of understanding between people. The main goal of the communist above and their fascist brethren is to recruit people, is to take away your individual freedom and to become a sheep. My advice to every free independent out there is to move along and stay alert because we have a saying back home: "If you get in the middle of two pigs fighting, you might become one".

But why did they do it? Will it get them re-elected? I think the gun issue will be settled on the hustings because as it stands now, the Cabinet has the legal authority to do this. The CPC is the only party interested in repealing these regualtions so, geto out and start campaigning for your CPC candidate. Canvas hard, identify the support, and get out the vote on election day. Don't let anyone split the vote by voting for another right leaning party like the CHP or the PPC. Don't waste money on going to court. Put that money into the CPC where it has a chance of being more effective. Despite my reservations with most of the leadership candidates, I've worked on Conservative campaigns since Diefenbaker was leader. That doesn't make me any kind of expert but the lesson I've learned is identify the vote and get out every supporter to vote. You cannot take any riding for granted and you cannot afford to write off any riding. Bob Stanfield lost in 1972 by less than 100 votes across the country. If you want to reverse the regs, that is how you do it.

Hm, isn't hiding your face racist to begin with? You hide your face, act in a certain way and this makes you less trustworthy to other groups. Then what is the principle behind nationality? It is to unite people having the same cultural values and heritage. This also means it is there to keep the rest out. But hey, there are these experimental countries like the USA , Canada, Australia, New Zealand and then there is this global market , international partnership concept that turned just about every other country into an experiment. To wrap it up, it is not about "Canadians being racist" There will be racist views in every country and in every person.

That's not true. Not even close. We don't actually have the right to free speech, as Queenmandy said, we don't have a right to firearms...or to defend ourselves. We don't vote on any actual policy issues like the US does. We don't actually vote on our Prime Minister. Trudeau has much greater control over the populous that the President does over his people. If you're thinking that Canadians have more rights and say in their gov't than americans, you're truly delusional.

The OP is about racism. Sorta kinda related to a Black man being murdered by 4 cops in the US recently, resulting protests everywhere, chaos in the US ... and specifically Doug Ford in Ontario repeating something like what Stockwell Day said (OP) - 'Canada isn't racist like the US ... ' We're more subtle about it perhaps. Oh ya, Trump's hydroxychloroquine-damaged brain is gonna fix all that for ya! Fill yer boots. Lol