theacharnian

Best kind of Portlandia vibes.

Nothing serious, just walking down the national focus tree, while world tension increases in HOI4.

There are two hazards in our discussion:

1. someone being called racist
2. someone suffering from systemic racism

I prioritize hazard 1 as having a lower consequence than hazard 2.

In other words, I care much more about eradicating systemic racism than the hurt feelings of someone whose motives are misunderstood.

Only we do know exactly the results of the CAQ's "laïcité" laws:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bill-21-impact-religious-minorities-survey-1.6541241

Bury your head in the sand all you like but the systemic racism that is embedded in the social outcomes of these laws is undeniable and palpable.

So ban unsafe behaviour in the metro. Jeezus, why does everything need to be a fucking culture war.

What a weirdo comparison to make.

It just so happens that it always boils down to policing what Muslims do. Just one big coincidence.

Blocking traffic is an offense of its own. We don't need this law.

Russia is a genocidal gangster petro-state, led by a criminal wanted by the ICC, that should be kicked out of Ukraine, but credit where credit is due: the most recent era of great power military adventurism started when the US ignored the UN and international law to invade Iraq in 2003. So if we want to talk about who drove the world in this shit, the answer is clearly the USA.

Disengage

Because they are. The article links to actual photos.

It's a journalistic magazine, not a scientific journal or a think tank. These are not "reports", they are articles, similar to what you would find in the Globe and Mail, or The Walrus. I am confused as to why this needs to be explained.

EDIT: Also:

It feels if you want a report critical of Canada, you can go there, and there is nothing else.

Again with the pseudo-patriotic BS. Being critical of Canada is not something to judge a publication about. We are a democracy. We get to fucking do that. We don't have loyalty tests.