tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335908177719535466.post8068626901847493806..comments2024-02-10T12:05:30.851-07:00Comments on Anti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Gifters (Allegedly) Gotta Grift: Pako Dallaire Falls Out With Steven MyattUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335908177719535466.post-70269741389197685232019-10-28T14:15:41.654-06:002019-10-28T14:15:41.654-06:00Speaking for myself, I find it difficult to read a...Speaking for myself, I find it difficult to read all these tweets from people whose brains seem to be being eaten alive by some some sort of parasite. So I skim them for evidence of logic beyond the warped outlook they seem to have, beyond the feeling of intense superiority they somehow feel to the rest of us plodders. What do they imagine life would be like if they were somehow allowed to be in charge? If by some stroke of wackiness, Canada turned into some white wonderland of Northern Vikings dismissive of all other races including First Nations, do they imagine everyone would suddenly be nice and tolerant towards each other? Their brains are full of fantasy, like walking talking daydreamers who strut around their noses in the air of imagined superiority. It's just another version of the serfs thinking they're all going to be lords of the manor, with no thought of anyone having to be the ditch diggers and dish washers in society.<br /><br />If one looks back to England, prior to WW2, there were few "foreigners" wandering around. It was virtually all white people. So society decided to deride the Irish instead, many of whom had come to the country for work. The Scots and Welsh were next on the list for being not "quite" right followed by northern English working class whose accents seemed impenetrable to the imagined self-conceit of the cultured denizens of southern England, plus a lot of them were Roman Catholic which was just not regarded as "proper". I can say this having been born in Oxford just after WW2, and growing up surrounded by family from the upper and middle classes, until mercifully, we emigrated to Canada in the late 1950s for much the same reasons the Irish migrated to England - a decent standard of living. And got a grounding in living in a society where as immigrants, it took a while to be accepted for what we could contribute instead of our accents being derided. We were advised that Canada and the US were classless societies, a fiction of the first order, because we ended up in a place where the county was self-segregated into English, French and Black villages. The only plus was that in general there wasn't constant civil war, which meant American social psychiatrists were all over the place studying the phenomenon or lack of it, plus had summer homes for a spot of R & R. Many US citizens had summer homes in the area in those days, and tended to lord it over the locals by passing US dollars as currency, apparently entirely unconcerned with learning any of the local customs at all, and regarding us all as hayseeds. They'd stand there at stores proffering US five dollar bills and demanding the 15 cents exchange first, then staring at Canadian bills and coins in change as if it were play money from a fantasy world.<br /><br />So my experience has been that there has probably always been jockeying for position in society, whether it be based on money, race, or religion. If it be raced-based alone, like these morons agitating white supremacy as the solution for all our ills, they seem so unaware of human nature they deny that nothing would improve after their pogroms.<br /><br /><br />BMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com