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12 hours ago, Nationalist said:

I am a Caucasian and proud of it

I am also Caucasian and neither proud nor not proud of it. I had no choice in being born one race or another, so how can I be proud of that? That's like being proud that the sky is blue.

We can be proud of our accomplishments in this life, but pride in what someone did 500 or 1000 years ago, just because they had the same skin colour as us? That's a stretch.

 

 

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Posted
15 hours ago, CdnFox said:

And you may not have heard this but there were actually some things that were done by European people more recently than 3,000 years ago

Including, but not limited to:

Pre-500 BC

500–200 BC

200 BC—1st Century AD

1st–10th century AD

 

11th century

   

12th century

 

13th century

   

14th century


 

15th century


 

16th century


 

17th century

18th century

   

19th century

   

20th century


 

21st century

 
Posted
3 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

You made a big leap there... 

I'm not interested in hysteria on this question.  I just want down to earth discussion...

Here's your down-to-earth discussion. The government, academia, and most of the media and corporate world insist on using racism to hire, promote, and give contracts and grants to. They aren't hiding it. It's in their regulations and laws, including the regulations I posted, which you aren't interested in.  It says it does this because of 'historical underrepresentation,' which, as with everything else the left does, is an American concept.

The black population in Canada in 1971, for example, was about 33k, which amounts to about 0.16% of the population. It only barely started to rise in the 1970s, with most of the first immigrants being the governesses and housekeepers brought over from Jamaica and Haiti as temps. It really didn't start to rise significantly until the 1980s when Mulroney boosted immigration numbers.

So give me a coherent reason why blacks should be favored in hiring over any other group. Historically unrepresented? They weren't here! And the same goes for every other group aside from indigenous people, who, given they were mostly on reserves until the 1980s, and didn't have a lot of scholars among them, were indeed 'underrepresented' in a lot of jobs.

1 hour ago, Barquentine said:

I am also Caucasian and neither proud nor not proud of it. I had no choice in being born one race or another, so how can I be proud of that? That's like being proud that the sky is blue.

We can be proud of our accomplishments in this life, but pride in what someone did 500 or 1000 years ago, just because they had the same skin colour as us? That's a stretch.

It isn't a matter of being proud of being white. It's a matter of being proud of the accomplishments of Western Culture and wanting to preserve it rather than see it swamped by millions of barbarians from the Middle East and Western Asia.

"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.” — G. K. Chesterton

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Barquentine said:

Including, but not limited to:

Thank you. This perfectly illustrates the way the Left looks at the Western world. All they see are the wars. All they see is slavery. All they see is racism. All they see are the bad things. The good things don't matter to them. They don't even take them into consideration.

BUT

They say nothing because they know virtually nothing about the wars and slaughters and slavery and genocide and violence in the rest of the world. They simply do not care about it. They rejoice in foreign cultures and traditions, not caring, even when they are aware of their bloody past. That gets hand-waved away as unimportant. It's only WE who need to bow our heads in shame and disparage our history.

 

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"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.” — G. K. Chesterton

Posted
9 hours ago, TreeBeard said:

To celebrate black history, obviously.  Every month over many centuries has been white history month.  

What's to celebrate? Why would you celebrate the accomplishments of others before you were born? 

9 hours ago, TreeBeard said:

I’m pretty sure it’s about the suppression of their humanity, the fact they were enslaved, etc, etc.  I

They were enslaved by Africans. So were Europeans. Indians were enslaved by Indians. Asians by Asians. Indigenous people by indigenous people. Why single out blacks? Because all your information is American-centric.

"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.” — G. K. Chesterton

Posted
2 hours ago, Barquentine said:

I'd say maybe 10-20% is biologically based. Every living thing has an imperative to pass along its genes and continue its particular species.

But as humans 'fear of the other' is more a taught reaction, passed down by generation, exacerbated by politics and media.

"The trick is to deal with this instinct in a civil manner...which is not always possible. "

BINGO!

Thank you for agreeing with me.

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Posted
2 hours ago, Barquentine said:

I am also Caucasian and neither proud nor not proud of it. I had no choice in being born one race or another, so how can I be proud of that? That's like being proud that the sky is blue.

We can be proud of our accomplishments in this life, but pride in what someone did 500 or 1000 years ago, just because they had the same skin colour as us? That's a stretch.

 

 

Really?

Then I must surmise you find BLM and "Black Pride" intolerable?

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Posted
6 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

Well I DO think it's weird, but I want to assert that I think there's something honest in your stance in all this. Even though you want to make it about deficiencies in my part, I don't feel the same about you here. You seem to have a consistent and axiomatic "ethic" about this and I admire that.

But still weird to me, In that you're describing a foreign feeling.  That doesn't mean I think your take is bad, or worse than mine, just that I can't relate.

Maybe You could understand me better if I said I admire these things we're talking about, that I have a deep affection for the work that my ancestors and others put in to building... I don't know.... Canada, Western civilization.... 

I stood at the amphitheater at Nimes, I think, when I was a young man.. And standing there I could feel the force of the Roman will to build, and create. I could really feel in my heart that they intended to be there forever.  It was awe-inspiring.

 I have felt that way every time I visited a Roman site ... Such as Pompeii or the aqueduct.  And I suppose for Canadian cities and American cities I visited. 

But pride? That's a very personal feeling I think.  I can only really feel pride over my achievements and the ones close to me. And I'm a perfectionist so I don't even feel that about myself very often despite how hard I've worked to achieve what I have in my life. I would say not egotistical, but maybe the opposite.... I don't really feel like I've ever done enough.

But I  commend you for having a principled take on this.

Interesting talk. Thanks. You made me think a lot about what pride means.

 

 

Truth be told i think you're vastly in the minority. Without a doubt people are proud of their own works but most people are also proud of the achievements they achieve collectively.  And it's extremely unusual for it to be one sided as you describe. 

Didn't you play sports as a kid?  When your team won weren't you proud of that even though YOU didn't win all on your own? You didn't score all the goals and stop all the shots etc. You can be proud you won and also be proud of that one goal you scored, the two aren't incompatible, but most people experience both. 

The fact you find that to be a foreign concept is the anomaly here, not my feeling it. 

I'm proud of what our ancestors did and built across europe and i'm proud of their accomplishments and advancements that lead up to the discovery of and foudning of our nation and i'm proud of what everybody came together over the last few centuries and built that's given us our country today (yes, even the chinese)  :)  And most people DO take pride in the collective efforts of their kith AND kin. 

So kiddo if anyone's weird here it's you :) 

You should reflect on that.  People who don't have ties to their past and only see their efforts in isolation tend to be 'untethered' emotionally, understanding the heritage is important. Literally every accomplishment you have ever made is on the backs of others who came before you. 

So kiddo, the weird 

 

 

 

"That which doesn't kill me...

Had better start running."

Posted
10 hours ago, Barquentine said:

Including, but not limited to:

Pre-500 BC

500–200 BC

200 BC—1st Century AD

1st–10th century AD

 

11th century

   

12th century

 

13th century

   

14th century


 

15th century


 

16th century


 

17th century

18th century

   

19th century

   

20th century


 

21st century

 

That Roman conquest of Britain one had me conflicted... Its like TWO HOME TEAMS 

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Posted
21 hours ago, Nationalist said:

Then I must surmise you find BLM and "Black Pride" intolerable?

Bit of a touche there on 'Black Pride' but those are movements pushing back against centuries of abuse, suppression, lynching, murder by cops and white supremacists... BLM is just a response to the fact that so many blacks have been killed needlessly by cops who faced no repercussions, as if black lives didn't matter. Sounds reasonable to me. What would you do in their place?

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Posted
22 hours ago, I am Groot said:

They simply do not care about it. They rejoice in foreign cultures and traditions, not caring, even when they are aware of their bloody past. That gets hand-waved away as unimportant. It's only WE who need to bow our heads in shame and disparage our history.

Again, who are "They"? And please quote where I said anything remotely like what you're suggesting.

I simply pointed out the dark side of European history that you want to gloss over.

Posted
19 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Didn't you play sports as a kid?  When your team won weren't you proud of that even though YOU didn't win all on your own? You didn't score all the goals and stop all the shots etc. You can be proud you won and also be proud of that one goal you scored, the two aren't incompatible, but most people experience both. 

Played a lot of sports as a kid. Scoring a goal or winning a game brought a temporary elation. That's not pride.

Learned to play guitar, too.. Felt some pride in that accomplishment. Felt even more years later, when I relearned after a carpentry accident- cut off the tips of my left hand fingers. Still play pretty good. But that's my accomplishment. I'm not 'proud' that Beethoven wrote the Pastoral symphony. Admiration and awe but not pride.

19 hours ago, CdnFox said:

I'm proud of what our ancestors did and built across europe and i'm proud of their accomplishments and advancements that lead up to the discovery of and foudning of our nation and i'm proud of what everybody came together over the last few centuries and built that's given us our country today (yes, even the chinese)  :)  And most people DO take pride in the collective efforts of their kith AND kin. 

Well, if we can feel pride for the good things in our history, we must also be able to feel shame for the bad things. Otherwise we're just 2-dimensional and whitewashing history. Because both the good and bad things happened.

Instead of pride and shame, how about admiration and regret?

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Posted
1 hour ago, Barquentine said:

Bit of a touche there on 'Black Pride' but those are movements pushing back against centuries of abuse, suppression, lynching, murder by cops and white supremacists... BLM is just a response to the fact that so many blacks have been killed needlessly by cops who faced no repercussions, as if black lives didn't matter. Sounds reasonable to me. What would you do in their place?

I read the BLM manifesto. They're nothing but racist pigs and thieves.

Its so lonely in m'saddle since m'horse died.

Posted
1 hour ago, Barquentine said:

 

1. Well, if we can feel pride for the good things in our history, we must also be able to feel shame for the bad things. 

2. Instead of pride and shame, how about admiration and regret?

1. Maybe this is why people who feel such pride repel suggestions that Canada (or PM Stephen Harper for example) apologize for wrong doings by the nation in years past.  I have a new perspective now.
2. That works for me but it's emotion so you can't ask people to feel differently, just to understand that their personal feelings aren't universal and others aren't lying when they say so.

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Posted
5 hours ago, Barquentine said:

Bit of a touche there on 'Black Pride' but those are movements pushing back against centuries of abuse, suppression, lynching, murder by cops and white supremacists... BLM is just a response to the fact that so many blacks have been killed needlessly by cops who faced no repercussions, as if black lives didn't matter. Sounds reasonable to me. What would you do in their place?

If it is OK for black people to have pride in their race, it is OK for white people. 

Also, the whole notion that there is some kind of systemic underlying racism in police killing black people is based on a lie. The data doesn't support that. 

 

 

 

Posted
4 hours ago, Barquentine said:

Played a lot of sports as a kid. Scoring a goal or winning a game brought a temporary elation. That's not pride.

Yes, a lack of the ability to feel pride seems to be one of the defining characteristics of the left. Mike's got the same problem, he doesn't understand what it's like to feel proud.

Most of us felt proud when we scored a victory or one a tournament or the like. As I said, you are the anomalies not the rest of the world

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Learned to play guitar, too.. Felt some pride in that accomplishment. Felt even more years later, when I relearned after a carpentry accident- cut off the tips of my left hand fingers. Still play pretty good. But that's my accomplishment. I'm not 'proud' that Beethoven wrote the Pastoral symphony. Admiration and awe but not pride.

You play guitar which you're almost sort of proud of but not reallyyou don't feel pride in Beethoven who never wrote anything for a guitar, and you feel this is in some possible way relevant?

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Well, if we can feel pride for the good things in our history, we must also be able to feel shame for the bad things.

Probably more regret than shame, but sure why not.  The problem with you on the left is that's ALL you want us to feel.  And you want to destroy any image or talk about any of the prideful things we've done. 

As a canadian i can look back and say 'i really feel like we handled the resdidential school the wrong way" or " it was absolutely criminal what we did to the japanese in ww2".  I can get behind  public gov't acknowledgements of that and even actions and compensation where appropriate.  Righting the wrongs of the past is not a bad thing. 

But our accomplishments vastly vastly out weigh our mistakes and mistakes have to be taken in context of the day

You guys amplify the mistakes and get mad when anyone mentions the good stuff. 

"That which doesn't kill me...

Had better start running."

Posted
4 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

1. Maybe this is why people who feel such pride repel suggestions that Canada (or PM Stephen Harper for example) apologize for wrong doings by the nation in years past.  I have a new perspective now.

Where does that happen. Where does anyone stand up and say I'm proud of Canada and I repel the suggestion that anything we've done wrong should ever be mentioned or corrected

That's something you just made up to justify your own crappy attitude.

Now if you suggest that for some reason people today oh black people billions of dollars because of something that happened 200 years ago then yeah, people are going to have a problem with that. But that is not the same thing

You don't have a new perspective, you have confirmation bias
 

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2. That works for me but it's emotion so you can't ask people to feel differently, just to understand that their personal feelings aren't universal and others aren't lying when they say so.

So you're going to go tell black people that they shouldn't feel pride? Let me know how that goes. I'll say something nice at your funeral

"That which doesn't kill me...

Had better start running."

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Is it so f*cking hard to figure out? Black people, Asians, indigenous people have something of a history of treatment they share in common. 'White people' don't.

A Greek can be proud to be Greek, an Albanian to be Albanian, S.F.A. to share with a Norwegian or French person. They have a history of distinguishing amongst themselves and the colour of their skin means nothing at all.

Black Lives Matter doesn't mean other lives don't,  that's just the message BIGOTS want you to think. 

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Posted
54 minutes ago, herbie said:

Is it so f*cking hard to figure out? Black people, Asians, indigenous people have something of a history of treatment they share in common. 'White people' don't.

A Greek can be proud to be Greek, an Albanian to be Albanian, S.F.A. to share with a Norwegian or French person. They have a history of distinguishing amongst themselves and the colour of their skin means nothing at all.

Black Lives Matter doesn't mean other lives don't,  that's just the message BIGOTS want you to think. 

You are so incredibly ignorant. 

Reminds me of a friend from Malawi, who grew up a normal life, no problems, her family was fine, and she was black. A real African American. 

So.. what history of poor treatment does she share in common with anyone because she is black?

You are so ignorant you don't even grasp it, that no, not all black people or asians or indigenous people have something of a history of treatment they share. 

Black Lives Matter is a slogan built on more ignorance, pushed by dishonet race baiting hustlers. The question is, which are you? 

 

 

 

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On 2/12/2026 at 8:21 AM, Barquentine said:

Your fevered imagination is running away with you.

In 1971, there were 67k people from South Asia. The Muslim population was 33k. 

There are now two million Muslims and 2.6 million people from South Asia.

My imagination has nothing to do with it.

On 2/12/2026 at 8:18 AM, Barquentine said:

Again, who are "They"? And please quote where I said anything remotely like what you're suggesting.

I simply pointed out the dark side of European history that you want to gloss over.

People like you point out the 'dark side of European history' on a constant basis, but never compare it to the rest of the world, never point out the 'dark history' of anywhere else, and never use context. And God forbid you ever found anything to say good about Canada and its history. If you did, it would be something like how wonderfully multicultural we are.

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"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.” — G. K. Chesterton

Posted
12 hours ago, Barquentine said:

Who are "They".

People like you, Treebeard, and others who hate Canada and the West.

"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.” — G. K. Chesterton

Posted
4 hours ago, herbie said:

Black Lives Matter doesn't mean other lives don't,  that's just the message BIGOTS want you to think. 

Then why not just say all lives matter?

"That which doesn't kill me...

Had better start running."

Posted
15 hours ago, CdnFox said:

1. Where does that happen. Where does anyone stand up and say I'm proud of Canada and I repel the suggestion that anything we've done wrong should ever be mentioned or corrected

2. That's something you just made up to justify your own crappy attitude.

3. Now if you suggest that for some reason people today oh black people billions of dollars because of something that happened 200 years ago then yeah, people are going to have a problem with that. But that is not the same thing

4. So you're going to go tell black people that they shouldn't feel pride? Let me know how that goes. I'll say something nice at your funeral

1. I'm pretty sure I've read that on here. People being miffed that Trudeau apologizes for this or that? 

2. Here's the difference between you and me: I recognize that pride is a very personal And subjective thing, and I try to explore the differences between how you feel it and how I feel it... And how that manifests in our opinions on the news of the day, policy, etc. But your take on it is that I have a bad attitude because my feeling is not the same as your feeling. 

3. I agree that it's not the same thing. 

4. I definitely am not going to tell them that, nor will I make that statement in public. Really what I'm trying to do is to  talk about what pride means in different contexts.

I can't relate to pride in something that I was born with. I think another poster expressed it above, maybe more clearly than I did. 

And as such, I think of such pride as a kind of non-shame...

 

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