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Kate 20:22 on 2023-09-13 Permalink Reply  

• JP 21:58 on 2023-09-13 Permalink

  I’d like to see the video but don’t know where or how to find it. I like going for walks in Old Montreal and as a person of colour I’m nervous about running into him.

• Ian 09:15 on 2023-09-14 Permalink

  Easy enough to find – I suspect this might go against the publication of images of another without their consent so feel free to delete it, Kate – and my apologies in advance if this is the case>

  https://www.facebook.com/1521006126/videos/682672696703499/

• Kate 09:23 on 2023-09-14 Permalink

  Ian, I have no problem with this being published without his permission. The man clearly knew he was being video’d and had no shame saying what he was saying.

  (How would he feel if an Indigenous person said the same to him?)

• JP 10:14 on 2023-09-14 Permalink

  Thank you, Ian and Kate.

• MtlWeb 11:01 on 2023-09-14 Permalink

  Watching this video makes me ill. His manner, tone of speech, and that finger, pointing ‘here (us) and there (you)’.

• Meezly 12:26 on 2023-09-14 Permalink

  Clearly if you’re committing an extreme breach of propriety like that by verbally accosting someone on the street, and being an outright bigot and racist, any sort of documentation of that interaction is justified and would be considered useful info for the public.

• Daniel 13:40 on 2023-09-14 Permalink

  Seeing that video was a punch in the gut. It’s infuriating that he’s gotten away with that so far.

• walkerp 18:02 on 2023-09-14 Permalink

  Fucking disgusting. That piece of shit clearly did that to somebody of whom he did not have any physical fear. He needs a straight beatdown.

• qatzelok 18:11 on 2023-09-14 Permalink

  @Kate: “How would he feel if an Indigenous person said the same to him?”

  If an indigenous person had said something like this to one of the incoming European Christians in the 18th Century, the European would have replied that he was bringing Jesus and modernity to Turtle Island and felt like a hero for doing so.

• Ian 21:27 on 2023-09-14 Permalink

  That guy doesn’t sound like he’s got a Montréalais accent, maybe he ought to go back where he came from.

• EmilyG 12:14 on 2023-09-15 Permalink

  The mention of “common sense” (as written about in the article) is something that I find troubling. I see that expression again and again from right-wing politicians. They say that their views are “common sense,” or in Poilievre’s case, that voting for him is “common sense.” As though anyone with different views isn’t intelligent enough to have common sense and see things the way that they do.
  It seems to be part of a broader tendency these days for people in general to use the term “common sense” to mean “something that I personally agree with.”

• Tee Owe 14:33 on 2023-09-15 Permalink

  The thing about common sense is that it’s not so common – sorry, you have probably heard it before

• MarcG 15:02 on 2023-09-15 Permalink

  “Common sense” is also code for anti-science, anti-intellectual, etc.