Islamophobia week in Canada
So this week Yves-François Blanchet, leader of the Bloc Québécois, blew the big dogwhistle, alleging that the prime minister’s choice for new transport minister, Omar Alghabra, MP for Mississauga, is an Islamicist. This has caused a political reaction but the accusation is still there, even if condemned outright by Justin Trudeau.
I wasn’t sure I was going to post about that till reading this op-ed by J-F Lisée in Le Devoir, titled Une bonne semaine pour l’islam in which he hauls off at not only Alghabra, but also Bochra Manaï and the new CBC news anchor Ginella Massa, who wears hijab. Lisée’s stock in trade is to parade his xenophobia as a virtue, but – as Nora Loreto says on Twitter – “Jean-François Lisée is going to go full Atalante by 2022.”
Jack 16:13 on 2021-01-16 Permalink
Since the turn to identity playbook by the PQ during the Charter fiasco the Bloc have followed suit. Plamondon has also taken a dark turn, which is the only place he can be in the PQ. The understanding that Quebec nationalism was a civic enterprise is now a joke. The PQ and BQ support an ethnic project that identity politics serves. At least we all know it now.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bloc-qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois-anti-niqab-ad-takes-aim-at-ndp-1.2974146
Uatu 18:52 on 2021-01-16 Permalink
There are times I wish I was white. It would make my life a lot easier
Blork 19:26 on 2021-01-16 Permalink
There are times I wish I were NOT white, so I could fully distance myself from these idiots.
Alison Cummins 19:56 on 2021-01-16 Permalink
There are times—most of them, actually—when I wish I weren’t so gormless and would just do something about these idiots already.
qatzelok 12:44 on 2021-01-17 Permalink
As all our social programs are gutted as a sacrifice to neo-liberalism – keeping the rich better off than everyone else, ID politics will be the only social justice we have left. Think Obama starting five wars and destroying a generation of African development in the process – as the kind of empowerment we will continue to see.
Commercial media seems to be ignoring all the gutting of real equality probably because it’s called “commercial” for a reason.
dwgs 16:17 on 2021-01-17 Permalink
Obama started 5 wars??
ant6n 17:06 on 2021-01-17 Permalink
“U.S. military forces have been at war for all eight years of Obama’s tenure, the first two-term president with that distinction. He launched airstrikes or military raids in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.”
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-pol-obama-at-war/
MarcG 21:22 on 2021-01-17 Permalink
Is it still war if only one side is killing?