"There is much to choose from this week, including the infantile wailing and moronic ignorance of social-justice hooligans driven crazy mad (Pavlovian response) by Jordan Peterson giving a lecture, by invitation, at Queen’s University...
More fertile than them all however was the brisk, chippy, and entitled Twitter blast levelled by Liberal MP and person of colour, Celina Caesar-Chavannes (Whitby, Ont.), at Conservative MP Maxime Bernier (Beauce, Que.).
Bernier had criticized an earlier tweet by Ahmed Hussen in which the Immigration Minister said the federal budget was historic for “racialized Canadians.”
Bernier said he deplored that tweet’s “awful jargon,” the pitch to “racialized” Canadians, and put out a plea for “colour blindness,” character over skin colour.
Bernier said he deplored that tweet’s “awful jargon,” the pitch to “racialized” Canadians, and put out a plea for “colour blindness,” character over skin colour.
His critics, Bernier said, implied (he was) a racist because “I want to live in a society where everyone is treated equally and not defined by their race.”
The parliamentary pigeons were duly agitated.Please check your privilege and be quietMP Celina Caesar-Chavannes
Instanter, Caesar-Chavannes fired off her Twitter blast:
“… please tell this highly privileged man that the ultimate goal of fighting discrimination is equity & justice and not, as he states … to create a colour-blind society.”
That wasn’t going to boil the kettle, so there followed another, more imperious swipe: “@MaximeBernier … colour blindness as a defence actually contributes to racism.
“… please tell this highly privileged man that the ultimate goal of fighting discrimination is equity & justice and not, as he states … to create a colour-blind society.”
That wasn’t going to boil the kettle, so there followed another, more imperious swipe: “@MaximeBernier … colour blindness as a defence actually contributes to racism.
Please check your privilege and be quiet.”
Obviously the bird of peace, the white-winged dove, doesn’t nest in Whitby, for when questioned on whether she had the right to tell MPs to shut down, from Caesar-Chavannes’ Twitter HQ came the final salvo:...
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@MaximeBernier do some research, or a Google search, as to why stating colour blindness as a defence actually contributes to racism. Please check your privilege and be quiet. Since our gvt’t like research , here is some evidence: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… twitter.com/maximebernier/…
Obviously the bird of peace, the white-winged dove, doesn’t nest in Whitby, for when questioned on whether she had the right to tell MPs to shut down, from Caesar-Chavannes’ Twitter HQ came the final salvo:...
Read on!
2 comments:
She lost my respect when she said "Please check your privilege and be quiet.”- which was a very racist remark and is part of the ongoing wrong perceptions of White people.
I totally agree.
As racist as it gets!
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