A Canadian commenter and cohort brownie-button-awarders are embarrassed about a beheading that took place in their own country. Rather than taking responsibility and showing the humility often bragged about having… rather than thinking of the victim, the family, loved ones and those passengers on the bus perhaps frightened to death, this Canadian (among others as you can see) decides to use this opportunity to express her disdain toward Americans.
There ya go. You just cannot make this stuff up. As they say, the truth is scarier than fiction. Blame America first. I am sure that in some way or another we Americans are to blame, right? Oh, well CNN was blamed for the Canadian media giving away too many details. Little do these imps know that if they were in another country outside the US, they’d see the same thing – the same media going into gory details. I know. I lived in Japan.
*sighs*
Ya just gotta love those Americanophobic Canadians who pat themselves on the back for being so tolerant toward Muslims while promoting and condoning hate toward Americans. Aah, the double standards! 
And we get to catch another case of “short man syndrome” at play today.
Sad when you have to mix politics, ethnicity, and religion with human tragedy. There is hope though. Some.
It is most interesting that those who go out of their way to tout themselves as “compassionate” are always the most callous and opportunistic. These imps aren’t just your typical Americanophobes. They are your typical leftist elitists that come from all over. There are just as many in the (as the Americanophobes love to say) good ole USofA. And they are the same people who applauded 9-11. Go figure…
The below quote was written by an Anti-American skeptic, but if this isn’t any clue as to how prevalent this inanity is in Canada, I don’t know what is?
This is no different from a racist American thinking “must have be a black person” when a crime is committed.
“Well, are you doing the same thing”? Not quite. I’m reacting against this behavior. It’s called calling a spade a spade and showing how low some Canadians will stoop with their Americanophobic propaganda. Pretty pathetic if you ask me. I also make a big deal out of this as we are to see Canadians are a humble, peace-loving, victim’s right centered, we-are-all-people-of-the-earth-centered-who-care, generous, and morally superior to the yanks down below them.
I don’t know which is worse: The perpetrator or those belittling, minimizing, and denying what just took place?
I think I’ll go back to my Bushified cave with all the rest of my baby-killing American-wingnut friends.
There’s no shortage of anti-Americanism in Canada, but as far as I can tell it’s much less than anti-Americanism in the US.
You even vote for people who hate, despise and/or are ashamed of the US. [Durbin, McKinney, Spector, Obama, Carter, etc ad nauseum.]
There’s a wide-spread mild anti-Americanism across Canada, but, after all, Canadians have no obligation to be “patriotic” about the US, and the hard-core haters are outnumbered by people who admire and appreciate the US. (You might have noticed that media types the world over rarely represent the general population.)
I can think of a lot of prominent Americans [Sean Penn, Oliver Stone...] who in previous generations would at least have been shunned or beaten for their treasonous rants.
I think most of the comments in Canada about this case focused on race and political correctness, because the police refused to identify either the attacker or victim, but bloggers quickly identified the victim as aboriginal.
Here’s an excerpt from an email I sent to a friend:
“Yes, [I agree] 100%, if he’s white, the talking heads will be talking about how white men are naturally psycho; if he’s anything else, they’ll be yapping about how did the poor man end up like that. Just like with the car-shooters in the US a few years ago. I was watching a psychologist FBI “expert” profiler talking about how it must be a middle-aged “angry white mail”, Christian, right-winger, divorced, etc, just as the station announced that John Muhammed and his teenage sidekick, both black and Muslim, had been arrested.
“I doubt there’ll be a knife registry (though in the UK there’s a serious movement for one. From BBC: “I don’t see any reason at all for any one except trades-people–cooks, butchers, carpenters–to be transporting knives in public!”), but perhaps now everyone will be strip searched before getting onto a bus. They”ll be checking 90 year-old nuns in case they’ve hidden a shiv in their “prison-purse”, but wave on some bin Laden lookalike for fear of getting sued.”
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Anyway, to address your points, when I talk about Canadian Anti-Americanism, I’m not talking about their media as much as I’m talking about the general population. I don’t require the Canadians to be patriotic about the US at all. It’s not the fact that they criticize our government either as my fellow Americans and I criticize it too! What I am against is Anti-Americanism which I had defined here.
I agree that there are many Anti-Americans in the US – much more than Britain and Canada can fathom. The reality of Canadian and British Anti-Americanism claims that Anti-American Americans are few and far between! Anti-American Americans annoy me too as I’ve mentioned here.
If you think that Anti-Americanism just represents the minority in Canada (and again, this is outside the media airwaves), read the links listed here.
Canada and Britain are our allies ONLY by government through a bunch of lip service/diplomacy. It starts and stops there. If we were to judge our allies based on the average man on the street in these two countries, we are their enemies.
It depends on what you mean by anti-Americanism.
If you’re talking about a widespread bias that Canadians are smarter, more compassionate, more humble ( “We’re the most humble people in the whole world!!!” ) than Americans, then, yes, of course those are Canadian beliefs.
But I think that hard-core existential anti-Americanism–the idea that the USA is by its very nature, and from its conception, an evil nation–is more common in the US than in Canada, even accounting for the 10:1 population ratio.
For example, consider Noam Chomsky.
If he were Canadian, and said about Canada the things he says about the US, he’d be tarred and feathered and laughed out of public life.
I guess this is mixed up with the matter of Canadians being excessively patriotic, even in the face of reality (“We have the best health care in the world! We have the best education system.” “Everybody loves Canada.”), to the point of irrationally hating the US. On the other hand, MANY Americans whom I have no problem identifying as traitors are quite successful in the US, in the media [Dan Rather], Hollywood [Jane Fonda], Academia [The Professors], Politics [Gore], etc. And of course if they are criticized, instead of responding rationally, they always say that is “proof” that the “dissent” is not tolerated in “Amerikkka”.
Gore, Kerry, Obama, and Carter are so anti-patriotic that, if they were citizens of another country, they would never be close to getting power. Is it possible to even imagine a Japanese Al Gore?
Here’s something from Wikipedia [s.v. "Anti-Americanism:]
“German newspaper publisher and political scientist Josef Joffe suggests five classic aspects of the phenomenon: reducing Americans to stereotypes; believing the United States to have an irremediably evil nature; ascribing to the U.S. establishment a vast conspiratorial power aimed at utterly dominating the globe; holding the United States responsible for all the evils in the world; and seeking to limit the influence of the United States by destroying it or by cutting oneself and one’s society off from its polluting products and practices. Other advocates of the significance of the term argue that anti-Americanism represents a coherent and dangerous ideological current, comparable to anti-Semitism. Anti-Americanism has also been described as an attempt to frame the consequences of U.S. policy choices as evidence of a specifically American moral failure, as opposed to what may be unavoidable failures of a complicated foreign policy that comes with superpower status.”
And here’s a good article from the guy who wrote the Gospel of the Obammesiah
http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/and-his-followers-were-most-wroth-with-they-who-believed-on-him-not/
QUOTE:
The US is a great place to be anti-American
By Gerard Baker, The Times, October 19, 2007
Anti-Americanism is on the wane at last. All over the world, Americans are being fêted once again as farsighted, liberating heroes.
Al Gore has won a Nobel Peace Prize, an Oscar and an Emmy, the triple crown of recognition from the self-adoring keepers of bien-pensant, elite liberal, global orthodoxy. Michael Moore is treated like a prophet in Cannes and Venice, as he peddles his tales of an America that poisons its poor, sends its blacks off to war and shoots itself. Whenever a loquacious Dixie Chick or a contumacious Sean Penn utters some excoriating remark about the depravity of his or her own country, audiences around the world nod their heads in sympathetic agreement. Bill Clinton, of course, is a god. Though protocol dictates that he may not say things that are too unkind about the country he once led, a nod and a wink will suffice.
It has always amused me that the same people who denounce America as a seething cesspit of blind obscurantist bigotry can’t see the irony that America itself produces its own best critics. When there’s a scab to be picked on the American body politic, no one does it with more loving attention, more rigorous focus on the detail, than Americans themselves.
It has always been this way. The fiercest and most effective opponents of US foreign policy in the 1960s were not the students in Paris or the Politburo in North Vietnam. They were Jane Fonda, Bobby Kennedy and Marvin Gaye.
Background
* The inconvenient truth about Al Gore
* A Stormy Climate
* Michael Moore’s healthy scepticism
* A convenient Nobel prize for politics
Today I can only laugh when I see the popular portrayal of George Bush’s America in much of the international media. Supposedly serious commentators will say, without evident irony, that free speech is under attack, that Bush’s wiretapping, Guantanamo-building, tourist-fingerprinting regime is terrifying Americans into quiet, desperate acquiescence in the country’s proliferating crimes.
The truth is that America not only harbours the most eloquent and noisy anti-Americans in its own breast, it provides a safe haven for people to come from all over the world to condemn it.
Take a stroll through almost any American university campus and you will hear a cacophony of voices in a hundred different languages, slamming everything America does, from fast food to hedge-fund capitalism. For years one of America’s most celebrated academics was Edward Said, the Palestinian agitator-cum-professor, who lived high on the hog at Columbia University, near the pinnacle of the American intellectual establishment, dispensing his wisdom about US wrongs in the Middle East.
Hollywood is the global mecca for angry denouncers of everything American. From all over they come, forcing themselves to live in their green-lawned mansions carefully tended by cheap migrant labour from south of the Border. This autumn, unsuspecting Americans (and everyone else, of course) will be treated to an especially unsettling stream of antiwar, anti-American propaganda, much of it produced in Hollywood by foreigners – such as this weekend’s likely box-office hit, Rendition.
And where would the world get its daily media diet of horror stories about what a ghastly country the place is if its reporters weren’t all comfortably pavilioned inside America, where they make a generous living happily devouring the hand that generously feeds them?
It’s true that self-criticism is always more effective than an outsider’s observations. Let’s be honest, how much real moral weight do Vladimir Putin or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad carry when they decry American motives and actions? All but the most unhinged of America’s critics know, deep down, in a part of the brain they try not to consult, that whatever they may think of the Bushitler in Washington, they don’t feel comfortable agreeing with the ex-KGB hatchet man of the Kremlin or the Holocaust-denying Dr Strangelove sitting astride his Islamist bomb. It sounds so much better when Al Gore or Michael Moore says it.
But ask yourself why that is. Isn’t it because they know that only American criticism really carries legitimacy? Only a country that enthusiastically and self-woundingly honours Voltaire’s old dictum about free speech can really be trusted to cast judgment on anything.
There’s another, more important aspect to the world’s affection for those in America who are most critical of it. The Americans who win global approbation in Oslo or at the UN are not simply critics of current American policy. They want to construct an international system that will for ever prevent the US from pursuing its own objectives, a system designed to dilute, counterbalance and constrain America’s ability to govern itself. They prefer a world in which American democracy is subordinated to a kind of global government, rule by a global elite, tasked to make decisions on everyone’s behalf in the name of multilateralism.
Al Gore wants the US to give up its economic autonomy and submit to rule by binding international obligations to curb its carbon emissions. Some of the Democratic candidates for the presidency want to tie down the American Gulliver under a web of global treaties. The British Government, if recent speeches by ministers are to be believed, is now apparently seriously committed to the idea that only the UN has the legitimacy to determine how nations should behave. In other words, that a system that gives vetoes to China and Russia and honours the human rights contributions of countries such as Syria or North Korea should be accorded a full role in the promotion of the dignity of mankind.
There’s a larger irony in all this. Even as the US demonstrates the openness of its own society, its unrivalled capacity for self-examination and self-correction, a free system based on the absolute authority of the rule of law, it is told it must submit itself to the views of Moscow, Beijing, and Brussels.
Fortunately, while the American system may be forgivingly tolerant of people with wild and dangerous ideas, it doesn’t generally let them run the country.
END QUOTE
Sorry in the last post I forgot to include an example in a virulently anti-American academic (where I wrote “[]” )
The reason is because there are so many, I was trying to think of the best example!
Recommended:
The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, by David Horowitz:
http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/interrogatory/qa200603130909.asp
http://books.google.ca/books?id=CYqZjtVp00AC&dq=horowitz+the+professors&pg=PP1&ots=xD5ytXQtut&sig=uNUxv-Ne0xc_ZkkzWbwvs8lS2AY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result
Akira: Your thoughts seem to be clouded by a deep hatred for anything liberal.
Liberalism is not equivalent to anti-Americanism. Liberals in the United States support their country, but choose to use their power as a citizen to voice their thoughts when they feel something is being conducted poorly and also their power to change what is happening.
In fact, this questioning of the American government is so much more patriotic than sitting and following blindly, because looking back, our forefathers created the constitution so ordinary citizens could question their leaders, rather, should question their leaders without fear of reprisal. It was unheard of at the time, the first nation where the commonwealth was actually given rights, and it worked. Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, et al. were very much liberal and very much radical.
The biggest perpetrators of anti-Americanism in the US are the fat-cat CEOs and Execs who sit around smoking cigars and eating caviar with their club buddies while padding their bank accounts with money stolen from the American public. No surprise, they’re all very much connected politically, particularly within the Republican party.
Monroe,
You’re wrong.
There may be any number of anti-American conservatives, in the sense that their policies and beliefs could be interpreted by their opponents as being destructive toward America. However, they are not adherents of an essentially anti-American philosophy, that views the United States as an existentially evil enterprise.
Michelle Obama saying that in her forties, when her husband is running for president she’s fianlly proud of being American; “Rev” Wright giving his Chrismas homily–”God DAMN America!”; Al Gore going around the world condemning the American way of life (though he himself would fit more the stereotype of Americans as consuming more of the Earth’s resources than they’re entitled to; Jimmy Carter going out of his way to strengthen people who hate America with all their heart (Hamas, Fatah). These people are all anti-American.
I never said or implied that all Liberals are anti-American. In my previous comment I tried to think of conservatives who could fairly be called “Anti-American” but couldn’t think of any. I notice you also couldn’t name any. I could name allegedly “conservative” traitors like James Baker, but even he is not essentially anti-American in the sense outlined by Josef Joffe above.
And, as for “fat cats and CEOs” I think you’ll find that most or many of them support Obama, almost as much as they supported Clinton. [I mention Clinton since he's of course more liberal than conservative. I wouldn't say he's anti-American at all, even though he was very destructive to the US]
“Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, et al. were very much liberal”. Yes, I’m sure they would love Michael Moore and Ralph Nader and Samir al-Arian.
Also, The Republican Party is not synonymous with Conservatism. Neither is being patriotic. North Korean patriots are not conservative [unless you're going to twist "conservative"]. I don’t think Edmund Burke is widely read in Pyongyang.
Re: “Noam Chomsky is Canadian!”
I take it that’s an attempt at humour.
In case there’s anyone here who believes anything they read, Chomsky was born and raised in Philadelphia, which is not in the Yukon, and has lived in Boston, which is not in Prince Edward Island, for most of his life.
So this whole blog post was triggered by an anecdote in which one person says that someone in their workplace asked if the suspect was American?
That’s it?
And we don’t even know for sure why the person asked that. For all we know they may have heard something that made them think he was American. Yet you automatically assume the only reason someone would ask that is because they’re caught in the grip of some kind of anti-US fervour that you see as being endemic in Canada.
It feels like you’re reaching here — desperate for something to bitch about.
Hi Simon, I am afraid that the person who pointed out the Anti-American remark was a Canadian. I left the link so that you can talk to her personally if you wish.
I also left a disclaimer down below my post so that you have over 100 links written, once again, by your own compatriots RE: ANTI-AMERICANISM… I guess so that your own people would have something to bitch about?
I don’t see the original post as “reaching”.
Of course it’s only anecdotal, but that’s no reason NOT to use it as a jumping-off point for discussion.
My take is that the reaction to this tragedy is remarkable for the lack of anti-American sentiment that is usually expressed in Canada.
If Li had used a gun, there would have been all sorts of self-righteous yapping about US gun control, even if Li had smuggled the gun directly from Cuba.
Perhaps when Li goes to trial, there’ll be some sort of discussion about the awful effects of American television.
Regarding the person who wrote the controversial wall post on Facebook: Her post can be found here.
Re: Chompersky
I see.
I thought it was your idea of a joke. Like: He sure sounds like a Canadian, yuk yuk.
BTW, this idea of me having slandered Liberals. I never used the word liberal. Gerard Baker, in the article I quoted, wrote, “Al Gore has won a Nobel Peace Prize, an Oscar and an Emmy, the triple crown of recognition from the self-adoring keepers of bien-pensant, elite liberal, global orthodoxy.”
“Liberal” is not usually a very useful word, if you want to be presice about political beliefs. A 21st century US “liberal” has hardly anything in common with either a Disraeli or Hume.
Obama is not in any way a traditional liberal. He’s an extreme “post-modern” Marxist, in the lineage of his mentors (Frank Davis Marshall, Franz Fanon, Saul Olinsky, Alice Palmer, William Ayers), all of whom are intensely, even religiously, anti-American, as much as Hitler was anti-Semitic.
I’m not really sure I’d call Carter a liberal. He too pusillanimous, and lacks enough intellectual rigour to be a part of any philosophical or intellectual tradition. He’s motivated by the same prosperity-hating and shameful religious urges that motivate his fellow millionaires Kerry, Kennedy and Obama.
Could someone find me an equivalent picture of a conservative?:
http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/friends-of-obama-nothing-to-see-here/
Alice Palmer
I wouldn’t call
Akira:
If you need examples of conservatives who are hurting the United States: Ronald Reagan, George Bush (Sr. and Jr.)–though Bush jr. did in his terms what it took both Reagan and Bush Sr. to do–Rush Limbaugh (both Bush jr. and Limbaugh are draft dodgers, cowards and hypocrites, Prussian Blue, David Lane and pretty much every other nationalist/neo nazi group member out there.
The only way Bill Clinton was destructive to the US is that his blunder opened the door enough for Bush/Cheney to slip in. Otherwise, the cold, indisputable numbers will tell the truth that during his presidency, all debt from the previous two presidents was erased and turned into a surplus (which Bush jr. quickly reverted into a deficit).
If you can, name a single conservative president whose term didn’t end in a deficit.
Yes, Monroe, you’ve convinced me.
Ronald Reagan was clearly insanely anti-American. Obviously his entire life was dedicated to the destruction of the United States of America.
Thank you for enlightening me with your cogent analysis.
Are you blind, or just intent on spewing lies? In that small compilation of sentences I said nothing about him being “insanely anti-American.” I said he hurt America, particularly the economy.
Thank you for turning this into a middle-school argument. To follow suit: You are a moron, good night.
Speaking of killers …
Canada’s Defining Heroes & Characteristics:
1. KARLA LEANNE TEALE (KARLA HOMOLKA, KARLA BORDELAIS):
Nobody represents modern Canada more than Homolka does. A suburbanite serial killer, rapist and pornographer. After killing and raping her sister and other teenage girls, she was championed by media and politicians as a victim of her fellow male murdering rapist.
Then there was outrage that she would actually be sent to jail. Then there was outrage that she had cocktail parties and orgies in jail.
Then there was outrage that she was released from jail after her 12-year sentence was finished. Then there was outrage that she was just allowed to walk around Montreal. Then there was outrage that some people would dare to publicize the poor woman’s new identity and address.
Then there was outrage that she had a child, as if a criminal record changed the facts of human biology. Quebec Children’s Aid said that despite Homolka’s perverse and homicidal past, she would not automatically be scrutinized. Several nurses refused to care for her in hospital, which doesn’t sound very Canadian. Then it was generally agreed by the great and the good that the poor bestial mother should be left in peace to raise her baby in privacy. (“Some experts don’t see the problem “)
According to some news agencies, she now lives in an undisclosed location in the Caribbeans with her son and her current husband, Thierry Bordelais. Since I doubt she would have gotten a visa, I’m sure that’s just a rumour she and her husband started in order to get people to leave them “in peace.” (Or else their plan fell through when someone found out.) Bordelais said life in Quebec is anything but easy for his wife who is trying to put the past behind her. “It’s not a life,” he said.
APB: Karla Leanne Homolka, also known as Karla Leanne Teale, Karla Leanne Bordelais, born May 4, 1970.
2. HENRY MORGENTALER: Chopped thousands of babies into little bloody pieces. A true Canadian hero. And an immigrant, which automatically makes him more Canadian than anyone actually born in Canada. There is something repulsive about his very presence. A monster so truly revolting that I can’t write anymore right now or I’ll vomit all over this keyboard.
3. OMAR AHMED KHADR: From a family of Canadians-of-Convenience. Off to Afghanistan with Canadian cash for Osama bin Laden. Father arrested in Pakistan as a terrorist. Father released from jail after the personal intervention of (and a visit from) Prime Minister Chretien. Then young Omar (allegedly) kills a U.S. medic; off to Club Gitmo with his brother who couldn’t make up his mind if he was an al-Qaedist or a CIA agent. Suicide-bomb loving sister. Crazy Jihadi mother. Now a cause celébre for Canada’s great and good. You can’t much more Canadian than that.
4. MAHER ARAR: A Syrian citizen. Deported from the USA back to his homeland. Allegedly tortured there. A cause celébre par excellence. Hijab-bound wife ran as parliamentarian for crypto-Communist party. Paid a fortune by the Canadian government/taxpayers. Banned from the USA. A true Canadian hero.
5. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONS: As Canadian as the Nazi party was Germanic.
6. APARTHEID: Racially discriminatory laws. E.g. Non-Natives must serve more jail time than Natives do, for the same crime.
7. SMUGNESS
8. UNINFORMED ARROGANCE
9. SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS
10. THE US BORDER
http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/happy-canada-day-to-whichever-country-celebrates-canada-day/
Ugly American here. I have a concealed weapons permit and carry a 40 caliber with hollow points and a round chambered. Justice would have been swift had I been on that bus. He would be dead and the poor young fella may recovering. Trash like this murderer should be shot on the spot. Crazy or not! I carry a gun because of random violence like this. I will go down defending myself. All you libs can say anything you want. In the USA that scum would have been takin out had I been there or any one of many law abiding americans that carry a weapon. I have had people threaten me because I was not driving 20 mph over the speed limit or slowed down to make a turn. I won’t be sheep.
so, just to clarify… was the guy born here or was he an import?
Terry, that’s just the point I was making in my post. You are no different from an American who thinks that if a crime is committed, that it must have been done by a black man! Who the fuck cares what race, religion, or ethnicity someone is???
Brian, you’re not an ugly American if you use the gun to DEFEND and not OFFEND. You will not be judged by me! You are using your gun responsibly. Good for you!
sounds too me like a import just the same canadians dont do these things americans do
Ah! Combating racism with racism! Sounds like a Canadian thing to me.
See how that works?
(You make your fellow Canadians look really well. Just thought I’d let you know.)
And to answer the question (that you should have known already had you been watching the news like good little Canadians are supposed to do) you asked, the guy who did the beheading WAS A CHINESE CANADIAN. How Canadian must be be anyway before you take responsibility for your country’s own flaws and realize that your Cinderella’s Palace is less than perfect?
In any event, I am glad that you don’t represent the average Canadian. There are enough Canucks out there that have a brain and don’t contradict themselves every nano-second to outweigh your obvious retardation.
Canadian’s dont deny that Vince Li (the greyhound bus killer) is Canadian…he has been for about 4yrs (since 2004 according to media reports). But horific as this crime was it was a rare, isolated incident. I cant help but point out that not once has the Canadian media tried too paint Vince Li as a nonCanadian in fact the ethnicity of the killer is rarely mentioned even in the eyewitness accounts. As a chinese canadian I was amazed an touched by the colourblindness off our media. It does not matter what race these man is…what matters is that he is a killer who deserves to be punished. I doubt if this crime was committed in the US that the media there would exibit the same sort of colourblindness.
I would like to call your attention to the couverage of the Viriginia Tech shootings last yeer during which the American media specifically focused on the fact that shooter was of Korean descent despite the fact that she had resided in the US since the age of 8 and was in fact a naturalized citizen who spoke fleunt english. In cantrast, Vince Li spent most of his life outside of Canada and spoke very little english yet the Canadian media has not once painted a picture of him as an outsider. I am a college student with friends at Virginia Tech who still fear retaliation against asians as a result of the shootings which occurred on their campus. As an asian Canadian I can say that I have peace of mind that my fellow citizens will see this crime as the act of an individual and knot reflective of an ethnic group.
My family immigrated to Canada by choice…and I am thankful everyday for the choice they made. I was raised in Canada, and I would never wish to be from any other nation. Its not that I believe that Canada is perfect I simply believe that hear I am afforded more equality hear than I would recieve in the US.
I think you as Canadians should pull together in this time of loss instead of bashing
yourselves and Americans,
this did not happen in America it happened there, as you can see the united states
has plenty of lunatic killers and we hate to see this kind of crap happen in a country
as peaceful as yours but please leave us out of your negative conversation,what happened
to Tim is awful and believe me, the real retard is the one who creates a blog to stir s@#t
like this when Tim and his family should be the main focus!
Carl, I started this blog entry to make the same comment that you just made. Did you actually read my post?
Toronto Girl, I wouldn’t have known the beheader was Chinese if it weren’t for your media. LOL Read the post you just replied to. Canadian news always covers the ethnicity of the criminal. What cave are you living in? Here’s one of the zillions of examples.
Have you ever been present in a situation like this in your life? My question: Who the hell has time to recall or even play guessing games at the ethnicity of the killer while watching a dangling head bouncing all over the place, bloodshed, horror, fearing ones own life, terror, and pure gore. Tell me. Are you out of your mind???
As a human being living on planet earth, I am amazed by the BLINDNESS of your lack of attention to your media. If you had been listening (this doesn’t count listening selectively), you’d be well aware that your media DID mention that he was a CHINESE again and again.
I am ashamed to share the same continent with ignorance as blatant as this.
Wow. If you actually lived here and had a clue or two, you would know that illegal aliens (they roughly amount to about half the size of Canada, mind you) when discovered to have committed a crime, it is *not* covered on the news the legal status of the criminal. I must give Canada some credit, here, however. They sure did an excellent job brainwashing you, didn’t they. Like they say, ignorance breeds more ignorance, right?
In any event, it is not racist to point out the ethnicity or the race of the person who was either the perpetrator or the victim as even white people are called out as such: white people. I don’t know why you Canadians think it is racist to give a full description of a person. I am afraid that you are belittling what true racism is.
Your news is more politically correct than ours. I’ll give you that. But I hate PC-ness. The reason why is because it is painting an image of holiness, but that doesn’t necessary match the human feeling of the preachers. So, basically PC is a point blank LIE (in the US, we call these people hypocrites or cowards). It’s a smoke screen to cover the true racism that exists in Canada. The difference between the US and Canada is that the US is not afraid to hide its racism and doesn’t sweep it under the carpet. For example, if a white cop beats up a black guy in the street (which has happened a few times) it is covered all over the place on our TV stations and all throughout the print and electronic media outlets. I respect my country more than yours in that regard, – as there is nothing worse than being dishonest and cowardly. Canadian news is a cover up of the little dark secrets happening over there. American news is more honest. We show our true dirt here rather than spending our time looking for dirt in Canada. America is not interested in making another country look worse than it is like Canada’s CBC re: American issues. Surely there are cowardly-hiding-behind-the-truth Americans as well, and you know who they are. And if you were as curious, intelligent, and internationalized as you claimed to be, you would know this. By the way, in your own country China, it is illegal to cover DOMESTIC news. Hmmm…. What kinds of things are you sweeping under the rug over there?
Have you ever been outside your precious and shiny neck of the woods? If you had, you would know that America is not the only (what you guys would call) politically incorrect nation. But quite obviously AA Canadians only research (not study) America – by way of learning cliches from the CBC and disgruntled family members. Additionally, you people neglect to see what else is going on in the world in the 193 more countries that are out there. So, how in the world do you expect to be respected? Your focus and obsessions lay on the US which says a lot more about YOU than the US – not to mention your one-dimensional view of the world.
The general public (yes your fellow Canadians) WANTS to know the ethnic ORGIN of that person who committed the crime. Canadians do not… I repeat do not differ from Americans in this regard at all! In the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter who from where committed the crime, but natural curiosity strikes all things human – not just Americans that you self-righteous self-aggrandizing lala land-o-denial AA Canadians enjoy to brag about.
America is a nation built on immigrants. It is the mix of all these cultures that make us who we are! Even if a white person commits a crime in the US, it is noted that he is white too. So, are you going to whine about racism against whites over here?
Additionally, you Canadians are no more/no less racist than the average American. It only looks like Americans are more racist because we DON’T HIDE IT. You cannot admit to anything. You can’t stand up and face your own problems. You don’t even realize that you have problems. How arrogant can you get? Seriously.
All you AA Canadians do is preach holier-than-thou and multiculturalism ad nauseam, but all that is – is a coverup to smoke screen your true racist beliefs – especially those you hold over Americans. That is the fundamental difference between an American and a Canadian. Canadians are in denial. Americans will admit that racism exists in our country. Canadians are always feeling in direct competition with America. I can see why now you people spend your entire lives devoted to comparing and contrasting (an obvious result of “short man syndrome”). If only you were using ACCURATE information to do your “scientific” studies, I’d have a bit more respect for you. But see, the likes of you prefer to be spoon-fed your thoughts rather than experiencing things for yourself and having an independent idea. Look up “critical thinking”.
You preach multiculturalism, but in all actually, we are more multicultural than you are! This is just one tiny example just to give you an idea. Down below, there are more links that explain this.
Next, and ironically enough, you are only “multicultural” so long as someone isn’t American living over there. Yet, you guys preach that you’re a tolerant country?
The purpose of my blog is to point out that American and Canadians are pretty much the same. Or not?
I am also 100% sure that if it were an American that committed the beheading, that your “fair and balanced” news would be having a picnic day with that.
So, to me, all of you multicultural elitists are hypocritical tools. See, either you’re multicultural or not. You can’t pick and choose. So, long as Anti-Americanism continues to breed in your little Utopia of all-things-perfect to the North, you have not yet the bragging rights to call yourselves “peace-loving” and “multicultural”.
Here are a few good readings for you as you don’t know squat about America:
America the Homogeneous – Land of the Racist and Intolerant
Planning a Trip to Canada (What the American Media Won’t Tell You)
Are only American Whites Capable of Racism and Intolerance
If the US were really anti-immigrant, do you honestly think that people would be risking their lives passing the borders here every day? And why do immigrants have families here and spend their whole lives here, for the most part?
If Americans are really anti-immigrant, perhaps you’d like to explain all of this?
And read the links here. If that is not any clue that Canada is a country with way too many bigots, than I don’t know what is.
You AA Canadians live in a sheltered bubble. The above links should be a bit of an eye-opener for you.
The day Xenophobic Canucks become self-reflective, will be the day hell freezes over for sure.
And when I speak of Canucks here, (the ones being called out on there blatant ignorance) are naturally those that are Anti-American (AA). Fortunately, there are enough Canadians out there that spit on the likes of you “I’m-not-racist-I-just-hate-Americans” double standard pseudo intellectual ignoramuses.
I have learned in my 40 years of being alive that those people who hold up the race card, play victim, and spend their lives calling out “the racists” are the most racist people that I’ve ever met. I’d rather be living in a racist country than a racist country in denial any day of the week. Perhaps, if you ever come and live in the US traveling from state to state, only then would you be expert enough to talk about our issues here and the 300+ million from all over the world that live here. But you’ve proven to be nothing more than a simpleton maple-waving Canadian nationalist at best.
Oh, and by the way, if immigrants in the US are treated so badly here as you fantasize, then please explain why so many of them come here to live, work, make families, and die here? Again, if you read my links up above, the percentage of languages spoken here and the percentages of immigrants, by far out way that of Canada.
And you call yourself a child of God? (referring to your email address). LOL Seriously, you’d fit right in with all the self-proclaimed religious fanatical hypocrites that reside in the US.
Anyway, it’s amazing for me how you Canadians brag about tolerance, and once an American appears on the scene, all bets are off lol.
Greetings to all and sundry!
Zontar, the benevolent and wise, has been observing the recent controversy outlined in the above comments and wishes to implore all the participants to stop in the name of Zontar the Magnificent! Canadians! Admit that you too are racists, bigots and closed minded as well as your esteemed neighbours to the south (I include the u for friendship). You should be celebrating your common malfeasances and misdemeanors. Once you do that, you too will be happy, at peace with yourselves and wise. This is the way to emulate your mighty Zontar.
I hope this clears things up.
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Hail Zontar !!!!
TorontoGirl said:
You know TorontoGirl, I too am Chinese, but born and raised in Boston, USA- I am American, but later moved to a small town in Nova Scotia composed of majority of whites (99.9% whites), I had lived in multural city Toronto and now in Burnaby, BC.
You have this self righteous attitdude about Canada, that it’s better than the States and better than any other country in the world. I have met many asian Canadians who are studying in the States, but they always give me this “holier than thou” speech-that Canada is better than the States. Why are you in the States studying? Why are you not studying in Canada, is it because of status, or maybe Canada does not have your program?
You say that you are afforded more equality here than you would recieve in the US.
Well TorontoGirl, you have not lived in “white town” Nova Scotia.
I have been in fights at school fearing for my life everyday, someone spat on my face, I had many prank calls everyday after school, i feared for my family’s life, their restaurant glass door was damaged many times.
You lived in Toronto, how can you say that you have more equality in Canada than in the USA. Your comparing multi cultural city Toronto to Virginia??????????????????????????????????
It’s like comparing apples with oranges. I have never experienced racist issues in Boston, but again it’s a multicultural city like Toronto.
Canada has racism- sorry to burst your bubble.
Back in Nova Scotia my brother’s black friend was bashed with a baseball bat on the head.
I would like to hear what everyone has to say about my post especially the anti-American Canadians because I’m so sick and tired of the double standards. And You thought church going people were hypocrites.
Welcome to my blog, and thanks for the comment.
Isn’t it interesting when the Anti-Americans confuse the entire country of America with the deep south? I guess they need to conveniently distort reality to sleep better at night.