Is the Left Responsible for 9/11?
Jack "The White" Bauer

Polite Racists?

Mezba:

The Toronto Sun reports that according to a survey they conducted, half of Canadians are racist. Which is pretty surprising as I must be running into the other half only then.

An excerpt from the Sun:

We are, after all, a nation that likes to puff our chest out in pride and congratulate ourselves for being a happy mosaic, unlike our southern neighbours. We believe we have transcended our somewhat checkered history in dealing with recent immigrants and aboriginal Canadians.

[Emphasis mine.]

Cute.

Among a slew of key findings, it was the answer to one question in particular that made the pollster stop what he was reading.

According to the Racial Tolerance Report, the majority of Canadians have a good opinion of all ethnic groups tested but the Arab community ellicited the most negative response among Canadians.

I'm shocked! SHOCKED! Who would have thought that dancing and high-fiving after learning about 9/11 could elicit such a response?

In the end, it is comforting to know that after all the silly "we are so tolerant unlike the uncouth Americans" talk, Canadians do know that culture matters. On the surface it seems racist but in reality they're assigning a culture to each ethnicity and deciding on that basis. (I think it's a sad, and a toxic, trend that race and ideology have become one or at least appear as one.)

I would bet that if most Canadians were provided the choice of the "other" who epitomized Western values, then s/he be welcomed with open arms. Skin color isn't the issue, ideology is.

Update
Let's say, a different question had been asked: would you have a negative, positive or no reaction to your son / daughter marrying a person of a different religion?

The Canadians would think about the clash of beliefs, the raising of children in a two-religion family and the likely chance of the marriage ending in divorce. Most Canadians would have a negative reaction.

So, then the Canadians are religiously intolerant!?

Similarly, with such simple questions and flawed logic, one can conclude that Canadians are nationalist (they wouldn't want their kids to marry a non-Canadian) and discriminate against the poor!

Comments

Alex

"For example, almost half of Canadians polled admit to being at least slightly racist."

WAIT A MINUTE!! You're telling me that THIS is how they determined how many of us are racist? By saying "hey buddy, do you think you're somewhat racist"???

I know polls in general are pretty inaccurate, but this is just retarded.

I'll bet you an money that if they repeated the same poll in, say, Palestine, or Iran, they'd conclude that those countries are the least racist in the world!

Josh Scholar

The Pew center has done polls in the middle east.

"low opinion" of Jews (if I remember right) ran as high as 97% in countries where no one has ever seen a Jew (Pakistan, Afganistan) and so on. That shows the effect of preaching hatred. Palestinians may be blowing up little old Jewish ladies on buses and giving the children candy to celebrate, but they actually have higher opinions of Jews (since some of them have met Jews) than Pakistanis or Saudis.

Alex

What I mean is, can you imagine what the result would be if they did a poll there asking "Do you think you're racist"?

I don't know about you Isaac, but I've never met a Muslim who thought he was racist. They might want to wipe out all Jews, and enslave most of the world, but they don't think they're racist, since only whites can be racist. My expectations for the results of such a poll would be "95% of Iranians think Israel should be annihilated, but only 5% consider themselves racist".

Isaac Schrödinger

Alex: Of course. Don't you know: there is no racism in Islam!

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