By Klaus Rohrich
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
I used to consider myself a fairly tolerant, forward thinking individual, but according the Sunday's Toronto Sun I'm a racist white supremacist. In an article written by Sun Media's Laura Czekaj entitled "The new face of hate" it would appear that racist white supremacists are to be found in abundant numbers all over Canada. And several experts quoted in the article attest to this fact.
It appears that the jackbooted skinhead neo-Nazis of yore have been largely driven from public view in Canada and are now lurking on the Internet attempting to garner support for their poisonous views from ordinary Canadians. What is curious about these allegations is if taken at face value, Canada has a lot more racist white supremacists than most of us had ever imagined.
The article quoted Dr. Karen Mock, former executive director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and former chairman of the Ontario Hate Crimes Community Working Group, who feels that we aren't paying enough attention to "everyday hatred". Mock decries the "well-thought-out, eloquently phrased and researched points of view on immigration". She calls for more educational programs "so that the public can be inoculated against this type of thing."
The article quotes a posting made in December 2005 on the web site Stormfront by a writer who called himself "Unconditional Canuck" about immigration to Canada.
"Because our identity is part of our ethnicity (I am a White person) and I don't want my ethnic group to become a minority where we're currently a majority: in addition, I feel that the identity of a people plays a part in defining the culture of a nation- for this reason, Whitism is also worthy of preservation." (Sic throughout)
While the writer of this posting may not be the most eloquent, his point about a people's identity helping to define a culture is well taken and I suspect so do many other Canadians.
But in the eyes of people like Karen Mock and Laura Czekaj, they're all white supremacist racists.
If that isn't bad enough Czekaj calls in the Big Guns in the person of Richard Warman a human rights lawyer from Ottawa. Warman sees racists and white supremacists behind every bush and under every rock.
"It's incumbent on everyone in society not to close their eyes and pretend it's not there. You have to take action to ensure that it never becomes more prevalent than it already is. There has never been a genocide that hasn't been preceded by dehumanization of the target community," Warman asserts.
It takes a real stretch of a very vivid imagination to connect the musings of ordinary Canadians about the future of their country, given the current immigration policy, with genocide. Caring about what happens to one's culture is not racism, regardless of what the anti-racism industry in Canada proclaims.
As it stands, Canadians are currently engaged in attempts to preserve some of their existing cultural heritage to counter the movement that wants to eradicate Christmas, as well as other Christian and Jewish holidays from Canada's lexicon. If wishing to preserve those traditions is defined as racist, then a large number of Canadians are racist.
Many Canadians are also concerned about the 250,000 to 300,000 newcomers that arrive in Canada annually. Generally the concern isn't about the color of their skin, but about what they can contribute to the country economically as well as culturally. It would appear that according to Mock and Warman even raising that kind of question makes one a racist.
It's become a sideline in Canada to label anyone that disagrees with the ultra-left liberal agenda with some tag designed to curtail any reasoned discussion of issues that affect the future of our society. We marginalize those opposed to same-sex marriage as being "homophobic". We label people who are worried about terrorism as being "islamophobic" and we brand anyone questioning immigration policy as being "racist". This is an age-old trick used by the thought police to shut down opposing viewpoints and people in Canad ashould recognize it for what it is.
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