Our politics often resembles a phantasmic American politics proxy war. A fall election during a pandemic and before November 3rd could create proxy war politics like nothing we've seen before.
Copying this comment from another site cos I thought you'd find it amusing, Mr W. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation statement in full is amazing -- not funny at all.
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Pop quiz, hotshots. What excitable organization, from what non-American nation, issued the following statement? Read it closely:
“As a group of people, we [blank] are enraged about the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer who swore to protect him. This shocking event, as well as the ignorant statements by white apologists and the police brutality that have followed protests, have focused our attention on this brutality and injustice. We reject the racism that persists against Black and Indigenous people, as well as others, here in [blank] every day.”
(A) Melbourne Law School, Australia
(B) Le Gavroche restaurant, UK
(C) Democratic Labour Party, Brazil
(D) Your sister-in-law’s online jewelry business, UK
(E) Federal mortgage and housing department, Canada
(F) ArtisanalSneakers, Sweden
(G) Anti-Sculpture League, Australian chapter
(H) Royal Canadian Legion, Quebec
(I) Black Lives Matter, Iceland
(J) Anti-Defamation League, Lebanon
Trick question! (E) is technically the (angry, nonsensical) answer.
But these orgs, even the fictional ones, all give identical thumbs-down to foreign racism, in indistinguishable syntax, while mimicking Yankee institutions via tearful self-blame: our museum/ union/ charity/ lawnmowing business has been, and continues to be, bigoted as fuck. *We* aren’t as awful as Americans: we’re *worse.*
If you don’t think that’s hilarious, let me offer you a white apology, whatever the hell that is.
Copying this comment from another site cos I thought you'd find it amusing, Mr W. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation statement in full is amazing -- not funny at all.
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Pop quiz, hotshots. What excitable organization, from what non-American nation, issued the following statement? Read it closely:
“As a group of people, we [blank] are enraged about the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer who swore to protect him. This shocking event, as well as the ignorant statements by white apologists and the police brutality that have followed protests, have focused our attention on this brutality and injustice. We reject the racism that persists against Black and Indigenous people, as well as others, here in [blank] every day.”
(A) Melbourne Law School, Australia
(B) Le Gavroche restaurant, UK
(C) Democratic Labour Party, Brazil
(D) Your sister-in-law’s online jewelry business, UK
(E) Federal mortgage and housing department, Canada
(F) ArtisanalSneakers, Sweden
(G) Anti-Sculpture League, Australian chapter
(H) Royal Canadian Legion, Quebec
(I) Black Lives Matter, Iceland
(J) Anti-Defamation League, Lebanon
Trick question! (E) is technically the (angry, nonsensical) answer.
https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/media-newsroom/notices/2020/our-commitment-black-lives-matter
But these orgs, even the fictional ones, all give identical thumbs-down to foreign racism, in indistinguishable syntax, while mimicking Yankee institutions via tearful self-blame: our museum/ union/ charity/ lawnmowing business has been, and continues to be, bigoted as fuck. *We* aren’t as awful as Americans: we’re *worse.*
If you don’t think that’s hilarious, let me offer you a white apology, whatever the hell that is.