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Have I researched it beyond a few online youtube personalities? Not really. I read widely, and try to read an array of media, but the media is, as you are probably aware, neither particularly reliable nor given to presenting much evidence in support of a narrative they champion. Much less against it. It seems like 'systemic racism', an idea which, once again, arose in the US, has been adopted wholesale and is unquestioned among the literati and commentariat. How much of that agreement is because of true belief as opposed to fear of cancellation is the question I do not think the Conservatives, as a party, believes in systemic racism. But they don't seem to want to talk about it, much. The cowards. Doug Ford said there wasn't any but when attacked he backpedaled and said there was systemic racism in Ontario. He just didn't know where. The Coward. People are just afraid to talk about the issue, much less challenge anyone to support it for fear of cancellation.

That sounds very Trumpian.

Because you are unable to. Because you are unable to support your beliefs with fact. So anyone who doesn't agree with you is so easily dismissed? Why are you even here if you don't want anyone to discuss political or social issues?

Ah, at last we have SOMETHING. Even if it is, as usual, just statistics. But expecting identical outcomes from groups with different cultural traits is a mug's game. There are never identical outcomes between groups. Different groups are different! So let's look at just the first one. Black Canadians make less annual income than non-racialized Canadians, both for new immigrants and third-generation Canadians. Now this is a clever bit of parsing. Notice how it ONLY compares black Canadians to white Canadians. Why do that? Why not compare them to other minority groups? Because that wouldn't support the message. Because it turns out Black Canadians earn less than other visible minority groups, as well. Why? And the answer is: it's complicated. Almost all Black Canadians are new immigrants and their kids. Most Black immigrants came here as either refugees or with fairly low skilled but needed jobs as live-in housekeepers and child-care or personal support workers. Or came in as family of the above. Low income and no connections means poor. What about their kids? That depends on how much of a culture of education their parents possess. Most black families are from the Caribbean, are single parent families, and most of those are headed by unskilled women. African immigrants are comparative latecomers. If you compare the earnings of people from Nigeria to those from Haiti or Jamaica the Nigerians come out way ahead. Parents tend to be married and they ensure their children get good educations. So like I said, it's complicated, and this is not evidence of any racial discrimination. I could do the same for all the other statistics but it would be a very long post. So no. Mere statistics are not evidence of systemic racism.

Your responses are always the least clever and interesting. You provided something from a different era. I asked for something today.

What process are you referring to that I might be asked to pay for? I truly have no idea.

Maybe we don't see dividing everyone along racial lines is so much progress as it is regression. We have segregation again! Only this time it's the proponents of equity arranging it! And yet, you can't answer it now.

At having to pay for what?

You remain an angry, immature person. I didn't whine. I spoke of how it seemed to be in vogue for the politicians to talk about its evils but that no one had yet shown any present day examples. And so far none of you has been able to do so. Instead all I've received is indignation that I would dare ask for any.

Are you speaking about me? This is a forum to discuss political issues. Yet it seems even asking for an example of something causes the hackles of certain people to rise to the point all they can do is fulminate and issue sanctimonious proclamations about the suspected motivation of whoever dares question them. It is like certain policy beliefs have reached the level of religious devotion among some people, and anyone daring to even question - not even disagree - but just question them or ask for evidence is committing blasphemy.

And the fourth individual confident of the existence of something they are unable to provide examples of.

And you are the third individual (I must presume you are individuals) certain of its existence but without any example to bring to the table.

And you too have failed to provide any examples. Noted.

I had to check my calendar to be sure. It does seem we're in the year 2022. There are no residential schools in Canada. Care to try again? Since I explicitly wrote that I wasn't interested in reverse racism cases you're either too ignorant to comprehend plainly written words, or too filled with raging fanaticism to accept it.

I hear it from Trudeau and all sorts of others on the political Left. It looks like most of those on the political Right are just shrugging and saying 'whatever' because otherwise the media, academics, activists and the like all will start screaming about how they're racist. It's more than your job is worth in a lot of places to disagree or even express doubt about systemic racism, but examples seem few and far between and mostly consist of statistical discrepancies between groups. Correlation, however, is not causation. And no, I'm not talking about discrimination practiced by government, the justice system or corporations against White people.

Not to mention almost everyone who is a senior or immunocompromised is vaccinated. The majority of those not vaccinated are disproportionately made up of younger people who consider themselves immune to death.

Hey, one's a job. The other is just a hobby.

Yes. What's to replace it? Capitalism is, after all, responsive to human behaviour patterns. Socialism generally ignores human behaviour, which is why it fails. And also why Socialist governments always become ever more authoritarian trying to get people to go against their nature.

What? Including laws against molesting children? Even your own children?

Stopping at red lights is also compulsory. As are taxes.

Western countries have incorporated elements of Socialism into their governmental systems, but this is always a careful balancing act between Capitalism and Socialism.

Which billionaire elites in the Soviet Union and Mao's China did everything they could to stop pure Communism?

The choice the fools wanted was the choice to decide who entered and lived in their country. That, and not economic reasons, was why Brexit succeeded. It was a rebellion of ordinary people against the elites. Mind, they still don't have that choice. Britain is, like Canada and the US, hamstrung by its own laws and by the week, ineffective government being unable or unwilling to change them. Essentially, almost everyone who crosses the border can stay.

This is what I have heard. The bases are rotting, the buildings moldy and decrepit. That includes base housing. Many of the postings are in the boonies, where spouses don't want to live. The military moves you around every couple of years for no good reason, and that upsets spouses and kids. The discipline, in a lot of ways, is stupid, demoralizing, bullying, and intransigent. On top of that, the shortage of personnel means many people are working long hours and covering two or more positions. Shipping out in the navy is a constant hassle of covering your duties and the missing other guy's too. The more people leave the harder the remainder have to work. Without overtime or much thanks. And that just leads to more people leaving. And, of course, the equipment is rusting out, obsolete, barely functioning, or missing entirely. People see the good job environment in the country now and ask themselves why the hell they're in the military? It's not like anyone, especially the government, is showing them any thanks or respect, after all. That's' the retention problem. The recruitment problem is an ongoing mess (as in ongoing for decades) wherein some bright eyed young thing comes in and signs up, then goes home and eagerly waits their phone call to tell them when the come in and start training. .And waits... and waits... and waits... as weeks turn into months and months turn into a year or more. Sometimes their files simply get lost and they have to start over.