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I would respectfully invite you to consider that civility is the lubricant that allows people who disagree with one another to have fruitful conversations. I worked for more than 3 hours on that post. I am not perfect and neither is it, but it's hard to have a useful conversation with a person who is as angry as you seem to be. I hope that, at some point in time, you will be able to calm down, and if that happens I'll be happy to engage with you about this or any other matter. In the meantime, I wish you all the best. Principle of charity - Wikipedia

Playing golf is a now a crime. OPP charging golfers playing Illegally in Tillsonburg, Ont. Scene at the golf course on Sunday. A crime is being committed in this photo.

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Chauvin juror seen in picture wearing BLM hat and George Floyd shirt last summer. #Mistrial

It's posturing, simply put. For Nike, Pepsi, the CIA or someone to stamp "we care" on their packages has a marginal cost of zero. The net energy that is diverted to these discussions takes away from real change...

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The history is not forgotton because of the legacy impact on American cities and society. Other elements of systemic racism endure to the point of Global Affairs Canada jumping on board for its own political purposes in Canada. Going down the U.S. rabbit hole for issues in Canada just continues the trend. Odd....

This is getting off topic....but if you want: Redlining and racial covenants were widespread in the U.S. (don't know about Canada) throughout much of the 20th century, and my main reason for choosing that among several other examples is the long term economic and social impact on American cities. Housing projects, interstate highway locations, zoning, schools, etc. were all part of systemic planning. https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america https://mappingprejudice.umn.edu/what-are-covenants/ Several U.S. jurisdictions still have racial covenants that have not been removed from the books.

Thank you kindly, I will look at that. No argument there. Their platform is on the web, so it changes with the tide. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blm-terrorist-rosenberg/ Every video that's pimped by BLM always starts after there's a problem. "Oh look at what the cops are doing to this winner!" When the whole story finally comes out it's nothing like they said. They use stories like Brionna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, Michael Brown, George Floyd etc which are all textbook examples of what not to do when the cops come. They also lie and say that race was a determining factor in those cases. Fact is that the police kill almost 2 times as many white people, they kill almost 2x as many unarmed white people. Sure, blacks are overrepresented in those stats, but white people do not teach their kids to hate/fear/fight police. The BLM narrative grooms the next generation of black 'victims'. China, Cuba. That's two. The leaders are marixsts, so the followers are....? That's not a bad way to go, just beware the huge lies coming from CNN and CTV. Don't you find that odd? The whole world knows about G Floyd, and they both died the exact same way. BLM isn't 'working on the issue of bringing police to justice' at all, they're fear-mongering racists. It's verboten to say 'all lives matter', 'blue lives matter' or to talk about white victims of police brutality. I'm asking you for evidence of racism "in the killings of those black people by police". There is none. There are lies about what happened, why it happened, etc, all from the people who say that race was the determining factor. Your interpretation is insane. What I said means: "What happened to those black people is in no way proof of racism, because police have done the exact same things to white people". I didn't say that killing white people gave them a license to kill blacks. If you don't already know this then you don't know as much about BLM as you think. Because Trudeau forced the AG to use the DPA for SNC, a company that's got a court-documented history of bribing Canadian politicians, then he blocked the investigation, and the media doesn't mention SNC's history of bribes or the blocked investigation. Can you name someone that SNC bribed? I bet that you know who Dr Ford is, and lots of other Americans who are insignificant to us in Canada. Their bias is in favour of the Dems, so it's 'evil'. My bad, sorry if I was a bit testy. I consider BLM to be a huge problem, not a solution - at all. I cut (cmmd x on Mac, or ctrl x on PC) everything below the part that I'm responding to, and then click on the quotation mark on the format bar, and paste the block of text into the box that appears. Cheers GL!

Racial covenants and redlining in housing sales are examples.

The United States already has a well defined experience with civil rights groups, activism, and black power organizations going back over 100 years. BLM is just the current iteration of this American narrative that last rose to wide national prominence in the 1960's & '70's (Black Panther Party for Self Defense & Operation Rainbow/Push). Instead of cop watching with loaded firearms, BLM uses modern technology and social media networks to advocate and seek support across demographic groups for "police reform", protests, civil unrest (riots), etc., something the Black Panther Party failed to do. The underlying grievances are the same, and include various elements of socialism, Marxism, and anarchy to destroy existing class and economic power structures, which are fundamental to perceived and real systemic racism. Either way, the American experience and narrative does not accurately inform history and conditions in Canada, yet the U.S. dynamic is widely adopted in lieu of the domestic realities. CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and other U.S. broadcast/news/social media all program and compete for audience share in American culture with far less if any concern about how much Canadians readily consume of their own volition, which they surely do. Accordingly, it is easy to understand why Global Affairs Canada would adopt the American narrative for "critical race theory"....as there are far less political consequences for doing so compared to a deep dive into actual Canadian history and current experience, and the Canadian public has already been conditioned to engage such issues using the American framework and distance, to the detriment of digging in more deeply back home.

1. Ok, but right of 40 years ago when they nationalized an oil company, owned airlines, a truck company, a hotel chain and so on. But ok. 2. Then... beware the trolls. People who describe the Liberals as "far left" don't live in reality. Most of your post makes sense. Actual Marxism seems to be on the rise, btw. And a lot of the nutty right seems to think that rightist policy opposes billionaires... specifically the only five who exist: Soros, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos and that Twitter hermit guy.