"I think you merit our contempt for what you are writing in this
blog which is a racist rag. How can a self-respecting
English can write such nonsense."
- Jean BOUGARAN (in a comment left on my blog)
That was a comment left for me on my post about Pauline Marois and the PQ Party’s bigoted and repressive policies towards minorities in the province of Quebec. Even though I live in Quebec, you will note that the commenter referred to me as English rather than as a fellow Quebec citizen. That is because I am not ‘culturally’ and ‘linguistically’ pure enough to merit equal rights in their eyes.
Let me give you an example of the separatist/sovereignist version of democracy and equality for all citizens.
This is the Quebec that Pauline Marois and her PQ party are building. This is the arrogance and intolerance her policies not only encourage but enable.
A group of Asian Canadians, visiting Quebec were accosted by a group of sanctimonious, pur laine bigots because they were speaking English among themselves in a private conversation. Apparently this is how Quebec pur laine fanatics greet visitors to their province who are not only fellow Canadians but who had the audacity to speak anything but French among themselves. Apparently, fanatical French Quebecers no longer believe you even have the right to speak the language of your choice with your friends and family.
A group of Asian Canadians, visiting Quebec were accosted by a group of sanctimonious, pur laine bigots because they were speaking English among themselves in a private conversation. Apparently this is how Quebec pur laine fanatics greet visitors to their province who are not only fellow Canadians but who had the audacity to speak anything but French among themselves. Apparently, fanatical French Quebecers no longer believe you even have the right to speak the language of your choice with your friends and family.
There is no other word for it but racism and those in the French community who remain silent about it even though they do not support this behaviour or who who make excuses for it it are enabling this intolerance and paving the way for a society only fanatics want.
You won't hear current Premier Jean Charest, CAQ Leader Legault or any federal politician like NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair who is from Quebec speaking out against this racial attack. They are cowards who opt for political expediency over morality every time.
You won't hear current Premier Jean Charest, CAQ Leader Legault or any federal politician like NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair who is from Quebec speaking out against this racial attack. They are cowards who opt for political expediency over morality every time.
The PQ agenda has gone far beyond mere intolerance and has now crossed over from bigotry to purifying the culture. We have seen too much of this racism and discrimination in the past in places like Germany, Bosnia, Armenia and Serbia.
No one race, religion, culture, language or hair colour is superior to another. It is only the cowards who are afraid of everything that might force them to actually compete in a global village that focus on the differences between people rather than on all of the things we share in common.
Quebec is in dangerous territory economically and socially. Thanks to a portion of its population that has become entitlement-dependent, xenophobic and anything but democratic, it runs the risk of losing everything it gained as a modern society. If that happens, it can thank the Pauline Marois’, the Jacques Parizeaus, the FLQ and all of those who supported a racist agenda of cultural purity for that.
The PQ are turning Quebec into George Orwell's Animal Farm, an allegory tale where the animals in the barnyard were encouraged by the pigs to rise up against the evil farmer. After they took over the farm, the pigs moved into the farmers' home, they started selling off some of the animals and living just like the farmer and the rest of the animals found they were in worse shape than before.
The pigs reminded them that all animals are equal but some animals were more equal than others in order to justify their actions. In the PQ's Quebec, it is the PQ that are the pigs and the rest of the province that are sheep. The PQ's version of equality is highly selective and self-serving. It is built on intolerance and a narrow-minded view of the world and in the end, all citizens of the province, supporters of the PQ and minorities alike will get sheared.
The PQ are turning Quebec into George Orwell's Animal Farm, an allegory tale where the animals in the barnyard were encouraged by the pigs to rise up against the evil farmer. After they took over the farm, the pigs moved into the farmers' home, they started selling off some of the animals and living just like the farmer and the rest of the animals found they were in worse shape than before.
The pigs reminded them that all animals are equal but some animals were more equal than others in order to justify their actions. In the PQ's Quebec, it is the PQ that are the pigs and the rest of the province that are sheep. The PQ's version of equality is highly selective and self-serving. It is built on intolerance and a narrow-minded view of the world and in the end, all citizens of the province, supporters of the PQ and minorities alike will get sheared.
When a society can no longer tolerate equally all of its citizens, it soon is incapable of tolerating equality for anyone but a privileged and elite few. History has taught us that.
It has also taught us that hatred, bigotry and racism are not the foundations of a successful society.
It has also taught us that hatred, bigotry and racism are not the foundations of a successful society.
Did I respond to M BOUGARAN? Of course: "I have nothing but contempt for any group that feels it has the right to suppress the rights of fellow citizens as the PQ and pur laine do. Not being born French should not make a citizen of Quebec a lesser citizen nor should they have to bow to the pur laine. It violates the Quebec Charter of Rights, The Canadian Charter of Rights and the UN Charter of Rights. So spare me your cheap sanctimony. There is racism in Quebec but it isn't on these pages."
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