Kramodlog
Naked and living in a barrel
Well, no. Racism *is* considering the other person inferior due to his or her race. It *comes from* human tribal patterns, and the fact that we can be grade-A jerks.
When I think of "oppression", I think of my grandfather fleeing his homeland because the Soviets were coming to throw him, personally, into a gulag.
When I think of racism, I think of measurable income inequality. I think of differences in rates of police action. I think of being given second-rate service, or denied service entirely, due to what the person is. I think of candidates on the stump insulting your entire people as criminals. I think of lack of representation in government and major business. I think of people assaulting you for what you are. I think of public figures who are supposed to be role models insulting your people. But, I'm in America, and those are the things we deal with. My idea of racism may not match yours.
What's happening in Quebec that makes you feel oppressed, or the subject of racism?
A lot of what you said. Income and wealth inequality, second-rate services or denial of them, insults, lack of representation in institutions, public figures saying were poopie or mocking or disparaging us. Institutional violence as stopped recently, but if we aren't watchful it could come back. It isn't like Canada wouldn't send soldiers here and arrest people just for their ideas. It did it before in 1970. There are violent clashes between french and english people, often at night when they are drunk and exist bars.
But it isn't a competition. I won't say that today we are in the same situation as black people in the US or Jews in Nazi Germany. things have improve, but it isn't like there is a level at which you can complain and before you reach that level you need to shut up.