Canadian Politics Today

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/01/fran-lebowitz-on-race-and-racism

Interesting ideas here.  I disagree with her equivocation of multiculturalism with bilingual education but I see the point about bilingual education creating a permanent Spanish-speaking lower class.  Canada, or at least Ontario, doesn't do this.  We have non-credit ESL classes, I think.  But more importantly, we have integration and we socialize fraternity and mixing.  In that way, our system is actually more of a melting pot.

I oppose hiring on anything but merit. I agree the American public school system is a disaster. And empathy comes from 'walking a mile in their shoes'. If you can't do that, if you can't imagine how you would feel in someone else's place how can you have empathy?

One of the main problems issue for Black America is crime. It's why most White Americans who are prejudiced ARE prejudiced. The cause of the high crime rate among Black Americans is mainly poverty. Poverty has two parents, which is ironic given one of them is single motherhood. The other is poor education. Together these have produced generations of young people without discipline, and a culture which sneers at education and instead worships toughness, machismo, violence. That's why Black celebrities act like gangstas.

Asians outperform everyone in America, including whites. They do it because Asians are rarely single mothers, and both parents devote considerable time to discipline and education for their young. They emphasize it. They REQUIRE good grades. Talk to any teacher in a Black neighborhood and they'll complain that black fathers are rarely to be seen and Black mothers are rarely to be heard from. Neither is much into helping junior with his homework, or even making sure he comes to school.

An Asian kid who gets straight As will be sought after by other Asian kids. A Black kid in an American inner city who gets straight As will be mocked and bullied.

The US has discovered an industry in disunity.  Fomenting us-vs-them dialogue in the media gets attention, and now they're making patriotism itself into a divisive issue.

How is that different from Canada?

Ah yes, the racist cry of those who oppose fair and equitable hiring practices.

Fair and equitable? You don't support fair and equitable hiring practices. You're far too racist for that. Your paternalistic racist beliefs think minorities are inferior and they couldn't possibly ever succeed unless companies are forced to hire them over more skilled, talented and capable white people.

Fair and equitable? You don't support fair and equitable hiring practices. You're far too racist for that. Your paternalistic racist beliefs think minorities are inferior and they couldn't possibly ever succeed unless companies are forced to hire them over more skilled, talented and capable white people.

To be fair, you did say the things that he repeated back to you.

Oh, I know, you and your ilk love to squawk about how bringing attention to inequality is actually CREATING the inequality, rather than exposing it. It's a painfully stupid argument that is the death knell of privileged white ****.

Nobody complains about bringing attention to inequality on this side of the political fence since conservatives are all about fairness and merit. We just aren't as paternalistic and gripped by white liberal guilt and shame as people on your side. We're not going to hire someone with Black skin just because they have Black skin.

And please do explain the necessity of our using affirmative action in order to redress historical racism against people whose ancestors, in almost all cases, weren't even in Canada prior to the 1980s.

No, I most certainly did not. I did say I, like a lot of others, would tend to call someone with a more 'Canadian' name in fear that the other was a foreigner with different cultural values and poor English who would not fit into our somewhat unique group very well. There was nothing racial about it.

See, I wouldn't feel that way.

Whatever your motivation, the end result is that you will toss resume because a name is not "White Canadian" enough for you.   Doesn't really matter if you personally don't feel racist, your actions are racist-based, not merit-based.

Not just SirJohn though. When many, many people do the same thing, the end result is a lack of opportunity for people without white enough sounding names.

Whatever your motivation, the end result is that you will toss resume because a name is not "White Canadian" enough for you.   Doesn't really matter if you personally don't feel racist, your actions are racist-based, not merit-based.

Again, like so  many others who like to fling that word around you don't even know what it means. My preference was for Canadian born and raised, not 'white'. And since communication skills were almost more important than anything else, that made Canadian born people more likely to be those who exceled.