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AND WE HAVE SOME WINNERS! Denial of racism among Canadians. Denial of racism among Canadian police. Denial of racism in the death of George Floyd. 4 MLW is STILL the racist winner of Canadian discussion boards! Cue the deniers Q? If white supremacists truly believe in the supremacy of the white race, the dangers of inter-mingling races, the threats of multiculturalism to the white race ... why do they deny their own racism? Do they not have faith in their own ideology? Always a mystery!

Don't worry....the Americans will pick somebody to join Biden against Trump/Pence, and either way the election goes there will still be a U.S. president for some Canadians to bitch about, a true sign of happiness.

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...

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

Really, oh wise one? Acceptable to whom? To those who think freedom of speech should be eliminated? To those who think those who think differently should be punished? We saw near universal unanimity and sympathy for the protesters and even the rioters in the media over the course of a solid week, endless videos and interviews of poor black people decrying racism and police brutality. And after a week of that 58% of Americans said they supported Trump bringing in the military to put an end to their protests. The silent majority is still out there, and they're not listening to the bleating of self-hating progressive assholes

But who will pay for the welfare cheques of the "new stock Canadians"?

You have no idea who you are dismissing. Those are the people who made this country the free and equal place it is, warts and all. The founders of Canada had a unique vision and they should be celebrated. They understood full well those who are 'effected'.

What are old stock Canadians? How are they being flushed? Regardless, nobody is denying racism in Canada. There's racism everywhere in the world. But there are varying degrees of it. Just because someone doesn't think Canada's problem is as bad as say Iran's, doesn't mean they're denying its existence.

Our society is always changing. This is how societies have always worked. Most changes that occur, when you look at our history, have been for the good. Things have obviously improved, but the playing field is not equal and there are still people (with different backgrounds) who will still make decisions and comments based on the ethnicity of another person. Unfortunately, in general, minorities in most sectors have a disadvantage, just because they are a minority. The Old Stock Canadians are being flushed out. Many are in denial, because they're too busy listening to their own voices or watching their own typing to really listen and understand those who are being effected.

You're willfully ignorant. For the same crimes, police are more likely to stop, arrest and use force against black people despite them being a significantly smaller segment of the population. Multiple studies of several municipalities, including Ferguson, show that whites are more likely to possess contraband during a police stop, yet blacks are more likely to be stopped, searched and arrested for it. For the same crimes, blacks receive harsher sentencing and are more likely to receive the death penalty. Blacks are more likely to be shot and killed by police, whether armed or unarmed. The data is there, you just refuse to see it. And yes, Canada has its share of problems. You guys seem to have some *real* issues with indigenous people--Canadians seem to hate them in the same way that Americans hate blacks--but you are much less violent people. All the same, your statement is motivating to continue to relentlessly beat racism and racists out of public policy and out of society. This must not be tolerated that we may have a future without this kind of inequity. More importantly, I don't want my children to live in a world where jackboots can kill them for looking at them sideways. If you want to live in a place like that, you should look at residency in Russia and China.

Yah the profilers would say yes but for you and me no. Also some psychiatrists miss the sociopath's true personality disorder completely. You see sociopatths mimmick us. Because they have no feelings they can play back our own feelings when we talk to them.. they feed our feelings back to us to manipulate us. In that sense they keep shape shifting to look like us. So unless you are a really well trained expert on sociopaths you can easily misdiagnose them and get suckered in to believe them. Oh let us face it profilers and psychiatrists can be wrong. You know with some it takes months if not years to rule out other possible illnesses. Many psychiatric illnesses have attached neurological or physical disorders that must be dealt with as well. A tiny scar on your brain, a very minuscule stroke killing off a tiny portion of your brain, a common cold virus or ear infection can trigger hallucinations or problem thoughts in some. A slight hormonal imbalance or irregular sugar level, blood pressure, heat beat, with some can do it. Usually the best homicide cops can pick up a liar, but they will tell you everyone lies. So with them they redirect the lies back in questions to what the person is avoiding in each response and wait to see what happens in the responses. Many murderers want to get caught. Then you have others like say Paul Bernardo, Charlie Manson, they don't care. A classic sociopath was Karla Halmoka. A guy like Michael Jackson like many serial sex molesters are not sociopaths. They do manipulate feelings of others like sociopaths, the difference is their subconscious sooner or later wants to surface and get caught so they sabotage themselves. Now this cop in Minnesota...probably what emerges is that he had both negative familiarity memories stored up with past encounters with both Floyd and other people like him black or white and also other negative familiarities associated with blacks, and other non black characteristics. In a new situation, any of those familiar memories are triggered because something in the moment reminded him of them. It is a reflex response we all engage in and distorts what we see. Women call somevof this phenomena intuition...but it can be a smell, a bone structure of the face that triggers a past memory to govern how we react in the moment. Women have a different brain structure than men so can pick up on or even smell nonverbal things faster. Its a built in necessity from their role of looking after sick children, nursing and anticipating prey trying to get their babies to eat. We men have a brain designed to help us hunt prey or run from bigger animals. These primal differences still remain. It does not mean we are a slave to them but it helps explain why our brains developed differently. One is not better than the other. Both are equally as useful or inefficient. Also our environment and constant evolution literally changes the structure of our brain which then passes it on in the DNA. A new thought that works and you use stores in your brain. It's like a new branch on a tree. People with thick clusters of neuro transmission pathways develop them from thinking. The more developed they get the more flexible and open minded the person is to trying approaches to do things. Sociopaths have no feelings but most of them are high IQ and are freed from emotions that would otherwise slow down the development of certain thoughts they then call on to control a situation. In this definition intelligence is designed by the amount of stored lessons you call on to handle an issue. If the memories are used to creativevpoditive solutions we call them adaptive, if negative, we then call them maladaptive. Emotions can serve as a restraint to prevent negative thoughts but can also fuel them. So some sociopaths become heads of organizations, others isolated loners, some criminals some what we call geniuses or demons. That cop looked completely out of it. He may have been on a medication, drunk, classically desensitivized, I.e., burned out. If he was a sociopath I would be surprised. The fact that the other 3 were so oblivious seems to suggest a burn out mentality on a larger scale in that unit or department. The problem is police departments today are burned out. The expectations on them to be many different things at the same and remain flexible, fluid and open minded in a situation of threat may be as unrealistic as expecting certain blacks or other groups of people to be the same way. I also suspect much of the rioting is serving as an opportunity to release pent up anxiety over covid as well. When you take offf a straight jacket there can be an immediate burst of energy. It is like taking the leash off your dog to run.

Complete nonsense. Nobody is denying racism in Canada. They're just denying the significance of it. Like it or not, Canada just isn't that racist. Regardless, racism occurs everywhere in the world that humans exist. Furthermore, there's no evidence that racism was to blame for George Floyd, considering white people have been killed in the same way. Bad policing practices is most likely to blame. In order to prove racism, one must be able to read the minds of the officers involved. However, if somebody finds Canada uncomfortable to live in, nobody is forced to live here. They're free to move to another country in the world where they'd be better off.

They don't.

There may be thousands of coronavirus species in bats alone, potentially capable of making the jump to another species:

YUGE jobs report! Record 2.5 million jobs in May! No wonder the Dems wanted the lockdowns to continue. June's jobs report is gonna be even bigger!

Complete nonsense. If he was good enough, teams would sign him. But nobody thinks he's good enough to also deal with the baggage from their fan base if they added him to a team. Not to be mention he pulled a hissy fit and changed the venue of his workout for NFL executives 3 hours before it was scheduled. He just wants the publicity.

Candace Owens is well known for her conservative activism, CPAC speeches, Congressional testimony, and outspoken criticism of the "liberal chains" that enslave many African Americans. She is a problem for the Democratic Party and Black Lives Matter, having swung her support to Trump. Critics often dismiss her as an opportunistic "Uncle Tom", but she has become the new face of independent thinking and black conservatism. She goes into that other gear at the end of this video:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/06/candace-owens-video-i-do-not-support-george-floyd-frontpagemagcom/

When the left and right can sit at the same table and debate topics without losing there minds, the left needs to grow thicker skin, and the right needs to shed some layers. Thats being said you can relax because it will never happen, your proof of that, the left is always jumping to conclusions, or reading into something that is not there or was not even mentioned.. your not alone right has it's close minded people as well.. Sometimes we just have to shut up and listen for a minute... This county is way to divided, along dozens of gaps, with the left playing upon that. Take the west for instance, Quebec, native issues, and the list goes on and on....we can't solve these problems how can we tackle racism, or the tougher issues.

No need to apologize for Canada's history of fragmented politics and separatism, or constant threat of being "Americanized". Because the "end result" would not be up to Canada anyway. Americans don't really care much about your Clarity Act.

How about this "racist" black and blind man who dares to post about George Floyd's criminal record and drug use ? Would it would be "racist" for media to disclose "Gentle Giant" Floyd's record and autopsy toxicology report in the wake of the excessive force homicide by Minneapolis police ?

Yesterday, when Trudeau said we were all racist.

Here's what we know. He was arrested routinely. We see this in the first video. Then in the second video, after being put in the back of the car, he fought with police, likely because he was on meth and fentanyl, as per the coroner's report and was in a state of excited delirium. Police then dragged him out of the car and pinned him down until he stopped fighting. Everything so far is according to how things should be. Now where things go wrong is that they kept him pinned on his stomach (chest) longer than they should have as they waited for a truck to come get him. To suggest he intended to kill the man is ludicrous. Whatever racism or anger people might choose to ascribe to him he was in front of a crowd holding cameras. He clearly did not think he was doing anything which would get him into trouble. Which meant he did not think any harm would befall Floyd. Even 'monsters' have a sense of self-preservation, after all. He was not putting much weight on Floyd's neck. We know this because if he had been then Floyd would have passed out within a minute or two. The problem lay with the pressure on Floyd's chest. What we don't know is what training he and the others had in positional asphyxia, and especially the heightened dangers given excited delirium (and a bad heart). I suspect he had done this many times before without harm befalling the arrestee and thought this was routine. He was certainly acting like it was routine. I believe this, like similar cases against other arrestees both in Minneapolis and elsewhere, has far more to do with poor training than racism.

He was a backup quarterback who had lost his ability to pass. And there is a difference between a public protest in uniform, at work, in front of your company's angry customers, and one done on your own time. And Stockwell Day wasn't protesting. He was asked a question on a show where you are supposed to give your opinions and responded honestly. And 90% of the people of this country would likely have agreed with what he said.

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.

I find it very interesting that you intentionally misread another person's post. Why is it so hard for you to understand exactly what is written instead of making lame claims about taking away constitutional rights where none was suggested. I realize from having read your posts that you have an agenda that excludes comments which do not fall within your limited guidelines but please dear use your brain when replying lest you be thought uneducated and unable to discern what is really being stated.

How do you cancel a football player? Ask Colin Kaepernick, hypocrite

It's not about calling all White People Racist. It's about recognizing that being white has some serious built-in benefits from years of systemic racism and discrimination. Denying that White privilege exists is being wilfully ignorant.

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.

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.

I just saw on the news this morning that deaths from opioid overdose in BC is around 237. I also saw some time back on the news that the deaths from the China virus in BC so far was around 180 people out of a population of approx. 5 million. I wonder as to how many people in Canada have died from opioid overdose compared to how many people in Canada have died from the China virus? It would appear as though more people may be dying from this heroin drug than from the virus in Canada. So, the question that needs to be answered here is why is there so much emphasis being put on this China virus and not on the opioid overdose deaths? We know that those opioid deaths are for real. How do we really know that all those deaths reported by the media, our politicians, and our health officials have really died from this so called China virus and is all for real? And when thousands of people get sick or die from some virus every year in Canada then what makes this China virus one of the big daddy viruses's of them all? 180 deaths is not what I would call a staggering amount of people to have died from this China virus. Our lives and society itself did not need to be shut down at all. It is the lying media, our lying politicians, and the lying health officials that need to be shut down and replaced. Thanks to those mentioned this country has become a lost society of losers who have been hurt more by this so called China virus than what the virus has done to we the people itself. This nonsense must end and we must all get back to the good old normal because I do not like seeing where or what this bad new normal is doing to this country. IMHO, This China virus is just another one of those false flag events meant to create chaos and mayhem and to try and make we the people's lives even more miserable than what they were before, although before, they were much better than what we are seeing and having to live and put up with today. Now they are even trying to ban handshakes and even high fives. I went golfing yesterday and one of the rules that we were suppose to follow was that we were not allowed to hand shake or do a high five. WTH? Have we gone mad and have gone this far that the good old handshakes and high fives are gone forever? like hell that will be happening for me. I will shake anyone's hands and even do a high five if required. This is why I keep saying that this China virus nonsense must come to an end. All of our big producing crowd events appear to be going the same way as the dodo bird. Getting together with thousands of other spectators and cheering and high five someone at an event is now deemed to be a crime against humanity, and the sad part is that humanity is starting to accept those crimes against humanity rules. I now get people backing away from me when I get to close to them. F'n ridiculous.

Dude the bar is so low I am tripping over it. And with my age, raising the bar could hurt my back.

There are cultural and regulatory reasons why Canada cannot/does not have a strong conservative voice regardless of who that may be. Canadians abhor conflict and confrontation at "American style" extremes, because it scares them as divisiveness (like mommy and daddy fighting...again). There are already built in fractures in Canada that cannot take more pounding, but watching the Americans do it is just fine. Accordingly, some Canadians fight their ideological battles vicariously through the American experience and narrative...from a safe distance. The Russia collusion fiasco fed right into Canadian norms about Trump.

Yes, yes indeed. Like many Christians of, today, Jesus also had a Jewish banker. Although, unlike some of today's Jewish bankers, ol' Judas was not trustworthy so it's too bad that you falsely made him appear like he was trustworthy. Of course I love you like a, brother, but that does not change how your words usually have no tolerance for truth and factual history. Therefore when it comes to our buddy Judas, I recommend readers go by the holy bible itself: