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Irish have a far longer history of being oppressed. If you want to restrict it to just the US then Indians would win that title.

Me too. But a 6-week-old fetus is not a baby any more than an acorn is a tree.

Don't put down to malice what is far more likely due to incompetence. By your interpretation above everyone born here is Indigenous.

I'm not a Republican, you stupid twat. I'm a conservative. You probably find that even scarier. And I never claimed that black students get an easier curriculum or testing or grading. I said the whole curriculum and testing system was being dumbed down so that lower-quality black candidates can not only make it in but pass through. But evidently your IQ is so low you can't understand what you've supposedly read.

We are told endlessly about how great immigration is for our economy. The only problem is that it's a lie. Mass immigration is anything but good for our economy. Other countries who have studied it have come to the opposite conclusion. Mass immigration damages our economy and the lives of the people already here. But what was also interesting about this report is that, unlike what usually happens, it did not point to mass immigration as the answer to these problems. Why? Because even the technocrats at the OBR have finally realised that the current model of mass immigration that we are pursuing in the UK is weakening, not strengthening, the economy. In short, the very kind of immigration that our hapless political elites on both the Left and the Right have been encouraging since Brexit—low skill, low wage, non-selective immigration from outside Europe— is the most economically damaging. One of the most detailed studies, the Borderless Welfare State, at the University of Amsterdam, paints a striking and bleak picture. It’s based on incredibly detailed and reliable data on individuals in the population. What did it find? It found clear and overwhelming evidence that much of the immigration that’s flooding into the country is undermining the welfare state and imposing big costs on the economy. https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/the-economic-case-for-mass-immigration

Who has a longer history of oppression, blacks or Irish?

I already proved that happens, you pathetic little twat. You think people didn't already know that? No one is complaining about teaching that slavery and racism are bad. They're complaining about made-up shit used to justify hating your own country. Slavery existed as far back as the earliest known human writings and in every corner of the world. All peoples were enslaved by others. And it's funny that you complain about segregation when the woke left is now advocating for segregation. And yet... what world have those kids, ie you and others your generation wrought? Not a very good one.

There is no oppression in Western countries. Certainly not in this one. And 'colonialism' is a worldwide thing that only seems to bother people when the people who won are White.

I mean different definitions than science. This happens in an incredibly tiny percentage of the population and generally becomes obvious even before kindergarten. It doesn't just manifest in your thirties and forties. So you believe calling for the death of Jews is okay? It's not truth that is wrong. It's when someone decides to come up with a new 'truth' unsupported by fact.

Once accepted into medical school, students encounter far less rigorous training than in previous eras. Citing equity goals, many medical schools have moved from issuing grades to pass/fail assessments. A longtime educator himself, Goldfarb is concerned that "the science content of student education has been dramatically reduced. So has the range of clinical experience," which has "diminished the practical value of medical education." What are they learning instead? As Goldfarb describes, "Researchers at the University of Oregon, writing in the journal Academic Medicine in 2021, surveyed the curricula of 122 medical schools and found that more than half had a required course that covered elements of advocacy." The goal of such classes is "clearly political, not medical." Humanities majors might wince when Goldfarb says, "It is one thing for the Princeton classics department to abandon its Latin requirement for classics majors. It is quite another for Harvard Med to cut training time in biochemistry and pharmacology for future doctors. After all, no one dies if the classics major cannot conjugate morior." https://freebeacon.com/culture/woke-medicine-a-prescription-for-disaster/ The campaign for diversity is long running and has some value, yet the ideological extremism of the past two years has led medical schools to adopt dangerous strategies. To fight supposed "systemic racism," at least 40 institutions have dropped the requirement that all applicants take the MCAT, the gold-standard test that measures students' grasp of this life-saving profession. The University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, where I used to work, now waives the MCAT for a number of applicants each year, primarily from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. It's also getting harder to gauge whether graduates are well prepared. The U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, which residencies rely on when picking trainees, recently abandoned objective grading for a pass/fail system, largely on diversity grounds. And calls are growing for post-graduate resident evaluations to be weakened as well. That would let potentially unqualified individuals enter medical practice and endanger patient well being. https://www.newsweek.com/diversity-delusion-comes-health-care-opinion-1725699 https://freebeacon.com/campus/a-failed-medical-school-how-racial-preferences-supposedly-outlawed-in-california-have-persisted-at-ucla/

More like ordinary people can only laugh at 'educated' people who can't describe what a man is and what a woman is, can't say for sure if calling for the death of Jews is wrong, and do their best to denigrate their country and its history at every opportunity while pretending racism is worse today than in the days of slavery.

As opposed to now, when non-woke viewpoints are disallowed and Jews are harassed on campus for their presumed connection to Israel? Do you know that in the US some medical schools are reducing the requirements for nonwhite students to enter, and then dumbing down the curriculum so more of them can pass? Not just medical schools either. There's a movement to dumb things down across the board because too many black students, admitted with very low SAT scores, are failing and dropping out. I'd call that 'reducing the leels of education'. I'd also call replacing great European writers and philosophers with ones from Africa because who wants to hear from dead white males constitutes a war on knowledge.

Poorly put, but I agree with the sentiment. Universities have been veering away from truth and fact into 'interpreting' truth and facts in the light of 'colonialism' and 'racism'. It's designed to teach students to hate their country, capitalism, and each other as much as their professors do.

He said an individual has a right to decide on their own healthcare according to the state's interpretation of 'liberty'. Do you not believe individuals should have the right to decide their own healthcare? Are you against liberty? Why do you lefties keep trying to impose the state's interest on individuals? We don't need any more of your big brother government! The idea it is a human being after six weeks is insane.

All the Supreme Court said was that abortion was a state matter. So this Republican judge isn't overruling them at all. You don't seem to know anything about this issue.

They didn't? Says who? When?

It didn't. It forced indigenous children to attend school. If there wasn't one available near the reserve the government would put them up in a residential school at no charge. But even at their height less than a third of native kids went there. And what do you imagine regular schools were like for say Ukrainian immigrants? Do you think they were encouraged to speak their own language, maintain their old ways, or were they ordered to speak English at all times and behave like Canadians? What about the kids of Italian immigrants or Germans? Or hey, let's go to the UK or US or France. Let's go to China or India or Japan. Do you think minorities were coddled or were they forced into the correct cultural mode of the majority? This was how the world worked for literally eons. The government was a threadbare thing back then. But do you know that it was similarly warned four years ago that residential senior homes weren't separating healthy seniors from those with Covid, right? But it went on right through the pandemic.

For me, the answer is less, by a considerable degree. Most of those I talk to feel similarly. The conservatives complain about all the money and get angry at the denigration of our past while the liberals tend to roll their eyes and shrug like eh, whataryagonnado? I find my feelings for any particular group tend to turn downward the more I hear about them whining and complaining, especially about past - far past injustices. Most especially if those complaints are accompanied by guiltmongering and finger-pointing at me. I see today's natives, much as I see blacks, as too wrapped up in their victimhood to get off their asses to improve their lives. People risk everything to come here from almost every third world country because life is better here. It can be very hard, at first. They don't speak the language, have no contacts, don't understand the culture, but they prioritize their kids, and the better lives they'll have. But natives... they can't even get on a bus and go somewhere there are jobs. And if they have no respect for my culture and heritage why should I have any respect for theirs? No, I don't want to hear about 'native ways of knowing' or 'native science' or anything they have to say about healing. And no, this isn't your 'unceded land' just because your great, great someone used to occasionally hunt here. Quit holding your hand out demanding more of my money and get a goddam job. And spare me your complaints about generalizing. I KNOW I'm generalizing. That's what you have to do when talking about a large group of millions of individuals. No one but a fool thinks that means every single member of that group is the same.

Soo.... you don't actually remember anything? There will be no conservative minority government. Unless they have a majority the Liberals and NDP, maybe with the help of the BQ will form a government without them and continue the existing policies. The Liberals and NDP have already said as much.

If you want to look to the UK as a reflection of the problems here with the criminal justice system and sexual violence how about the outright refusal of both media and government to voice even the slightest hint about the overrepresentation of certain minority groups in criminal behaviour? Oh, they're willing to mention that certain groups are in prison at a higher rate than their population, but they never EVER go past that to suggest why, except that it must be 'racism'. If you look at most wanted lists for murderers, though, you'll see black and brown faces. No one in government or the media ever talks about that. No one ever mentions the prevalence of Muslims in sexual assault cases, either. Just like in the UK, where Pakistani rape gangs existed for decades with impunity because everyone was terrified of mentioning them and being accused of racism. You see the same thing happening from Sweden to Belgium to Germany, with Muslim migrants attacking local girls while the government and media keep silent on it.

And how is that worse than Trudeau? Other than Trudeau is a pseudo-liberal pandering to every malcontent who'll pad his chances? His election campaigns rely entirely on buying votes, divisiveness, and scaremongering, and he pushes his divisive social justice garbage on everyone to virtue signal to identity groups he hopes to get votes for. I doubt he even believes any of it.

I don't think you actually understand what a conservative is. Oh, yes, I get the historical origins. But for centuries now, certainly in Canada, being conservative was synonymous with being careful. It means not rushing pell-mell into changes without being sure they won't make things worse. It means government that does what needs to be done by government and not much else, ensuring order and security for both people and business, balancing the books, prioritizing what needs doing, and preserving - or conserving - the historical traditions, values, and institutions of the nation. And I dislike this 'populist' nonsense that is constantly being applied to conservative parties but never to left/liberal parties. If Poilievre is a populist so is Trudeau. Trudeau, in fact, is even more of a faux populist since he clearly doesn't really believe in all that social justice garbage he spews. I think you're deliberately simplifying his message. A new tory ad just dropped.

What 'dark days' do you refer to? The student cuts are temporary. They even said so. Just for two years. They have done virtually nothing to curb foreign workers. In fact, they have mused aloud that the best way to lower the number of temporary workers is to make them all permanent. It's clear that is their preference by their popularity and the nearness of an election preclude this happening yet. They want to give foreign temporary agricultural workers permanent residency status. Which is moronic given they would then just leave the farms and go to work in the cities and we'd need to bring in more temporary foreign farm workers. They have flat-out refused to lower immigration numbers. They have completely ignored the high and rising number of asylum claimants, virtually ALL of which will either be accepted or simply stay. Housing is going to get even more scarce as we continue to bring in more people than we are building housing for. Carbon taxes will continue to grow. As will unemployment.

There will be no conservative minority government. In the event of them not getting a majority of seats the Liberals will combine with the NDP/and or the BQ to form the government.