Canadian anti-Idle No More racism grows online

[Fire Walk With Me]

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.)

[NoOneMan]

1. Yeah, its pretty bad up here in my experience

I was sickened and surprised since moving at how out in the open everyone was about it. I might here it a bit more at the fishing holes due to all the conflicts. Its a complicated situation, but it seems like a lot of people have forgotten that.

[lunasun]

2. I really dislike judges like the lady who mentioned the TV on the res

It could have been bought 2nd hand /used, or gotten in exchange for something else,or free off a move they helped on
She really doesnt know but decides she does
typical

[brush]

3. I am so disappointed

Was hoping there was a place in this hemisphere where one could escape the . . . ah just fuck.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

4. Racism has always been here.

But as the population ages, and the economy stagnates intolerance comes out into the open more. No different than the USA with the major exception that our Charter of Rights does a pretty good job at preventing it from becoming institutionalized.

But First Nations have always been subject to public contempt. There is also a virulent strain of anti-Muslim, anti-black, anti-francophone, anti-union and of course anti-Occupy sentiment expressed by citizens through Canadian media, around water-coolers, and at the local tavern. Its saddening and embarrassing.