Vincent J. Curtis
15 July 20
Today, the Hamilton Spectator ran a piece written by Hina Saeed. My guess is that her diatribe against racist, colonialist Canada is an effort to drum up business for her law practice. Lacking self-awareness, she believes that she is not subject to the ramifications of the ideologies she spouts.
It’s rich
indeed to read Hina Saeed, a young, up-and-coming female lawyer, complain about
Canada. She says that Canada was founded on racial injustice, and we have
a long history of denying it. Systemic racism, etc., etc. She calls for
the dismantling of structural inequities, and for the implementation of an
anti-oppression framework as the foundation for this social change.
Whatever.
Her
mainstream government funded agency has been taking a critical look at the
perpetuation of colonization!
Saeed clearly
accepts no responsibility for the historical injustice of Canada’s founding,
for its long history of systemic racism, or, strangely, for the ongoing act of
colonization in Canada’s continuing existence. She doesn’t try to square
the creation of the framework for societal change with democratic processes.
Saeed has not suffered from this racism or injustice herself. She has
benefited greatly from Canada. She is a successful lawyer. But if
she wants to talk nonsense about Canada being founded on racial injustice and
systemic racism, then let’s also talk seriously about the slave-traders that
are in her background. And if colonization is the continuing evil of
Canada, then why hasn’t she taken her belief to heart and moved to the Muslim
world? Except the history of Islam is a history of military conquest,
fire and sword, that sort of thing.
I can see
her article as a marketing tool, but the content shows once again that students
are being taught in school to despise Canada. They can be quite arrogant
in their ignorance.
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