Triggering white guys isn’t smart

Vincent J. Curtis

11 July 2021

RE: Non-racialized Canadians will be educated on systemic racism.  Story by Stephanie Taylor of the Canadian Press.

When one is committed to fighting the war against stupidity, one never lacks for fodder by reading the pages of the Spectator.  Case in point: the government plans to educate white Canadians on the evils they commit, in particular engage in systemic racism.  The headline called whites “non-racialized” which is a peculiar formulation intended to avoid the blatancy of saying white in a headline.  If there are racialized and non-racialized, then whites must not have a race?  But I digress.

Teaching the evils of systemic racism should be fun to watch, since not even Prime Minister Trudeau is able to define what it is.  The Indian Act is an example of systemic racism since it is official law and creates a class of people, namely status Indians, and endows them with special rights.  Another example is for the government to arrange for special vaccination clinics for Blacks and indigenous and exclude whites of any nationality.  But these are the good kinds of systemic racism.  Otherwise, I can’t think of systemic racism that you can actually point to.

The Charter of Rights, various provincial Bills of Rights, and human rights codes should eliminate systemic racism if it can be discovered and prosecuted.  Otherwise, systemic racism boils down to holding white men to be responsible for all the evils in the world on account of their skin colour.

If they believed their own arguments, which they don’t, they would be careful about trigging white men.  The results to get ugly really fast.

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