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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts) Sun Jan 13, 2013, 11:26 PM Jan 2013

Canadian anti-Idle No More racism grows online [View all]

http://m.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1314100--mallick-canadian-anti-idle-no-more-racism-grows-online

Is Canada more racist than we think?

It turns out that writing a column about Idle No More and the ongoing battle by Indians in Canada for fair treatment attracts racists the way a wet lawn calls out to worms.

I had always thought that one of the joys of Canadian life was its abhorrence of racism. But judging by some of the email I received and the comments I read online elsewhere, it’s getting a bit Mississippian around here.

The racism unleashed after Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike, the Federal Court Métis ruling and the effort to get Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the same room as chiefs and the governor-general? It was extraordinary.

(More at the link.)

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Canadian anti-Idle No More racism grows online [View all] Fire Walk With Me Jan 2013 OP

Yeah, its pretty bad up here in my experience NoOneMan Jan 2013 #1

I really dislike judges like the lady who mentioned the TV on the res lunasun Jan 2013 #2

I am so disappointed brush Jan 2013 #3

Racism has always been here. Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2013 #4