Post by Souriquois on Dec 5, 2016 11:43:06 GMT -4
It seems this kind of stuff is most pronounced among Anglos.
Here is a documentary on the EDL:
Then you have Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. As well as Canada's Conservative Party descending into this kind of mentality, when they previously were the most multiracial centre-right party in the world. Similar events in Australia as well.
I find this kind of simplistic thinking is most common among Anglos.
You have the English Defense League, Australian Defense League, Canadian Defense League, whatever Pamela Geller's group is (Stop Islamification of Nations or whatever), the alt-right... meanwhile Austria voted against the far right, Germany they rarely get any support.
Their boogeyman is Muslims. I always find it funny that Anglos reacted more irrationally to the attacks in Paris and Brussels than the actual targets, the French and Belgians.
I also find it funny that the English-language media in Canada is currently doing an expose on the Islamophobic far-right in Quebec. More of their French-Canadian bashing (a national passtime). While I admit, such groups do exist, there are more of them in English Canada and they are way more active. Among French-Canadians, these people are outcasts, while in my observation, the majority of Anglo Canadians (this includes non-whites who speak English as a first language BTW) have crazy conspiratorial Islamophobic views, about "Creeping Sharia" and shit like that, and consider anybody who disagrees with them a "traitor" (if they are a right-winger) or a "regressive leftist" (if they are a left-winger), even middle class, working mainstream people and people who consider themselves "progressive".
I have cut most Anglos out of my life... I only hang around with French-Canadians and people of colour, because I just can't be around Anglos anymore due to their polarized, unable to comprehend nuance thinking.
They used to be rational. What happened?
Here is a documentary on the EDL:
Then you have Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. As well as Canada's Conservative Party descending into this kind of mentality, when they previously were the most multiracial centre-right party in the world. Similar events in Australia as well.
I find this kind of simplistic thinking is most common among Anglos.
You have the English Defense League, Australian Defense League, Canadian Defense League, whatever Pamela Geller's group is (Stop Islamification of Nations or whatever), the alt-right... meanwhile Austria voted against the far right, Germany they rarely get any support.
Their boogeyman is Muslims. I always find it funny that Anglos reacted more irrationally to the attacks in Paris and Brussels than the actual targets, the French and Belgians.
I also find it funny that the English-language media in Canada is currently doing an expose on the Islamophobic far-right in Quebec. More of their French-Canadian bashing (a national passtime). While I admit, such groups do exist, there are more of them in English Canada and they are way more active. Among French-Canadians, these people are outcasts, while in my observation, the majority of Anglo Canadians (this includes non-whites who speak English as a first language BTW) have crazy conspiratorial Islamophobic views, about "Creeping Sharia" and shit like that, and consider anybody who disagrees with them a "traitor" (if they are a right-winger) or a "regressive leftist" (if they are a left-winger), even middle class, working mainstream people and people who consider themselves "progressive".
I have cut most Anglos out of my life... I only hang around with French-Canadians and people of colour, because I just can't be around Anglos anymore due to their polarized, unable to comprehend nuance thinking.
They used to be rational. What happened?