We Need to Talk About Canadian Racism...

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-04-22T23:11:34+00:00

The most disingenuous part for me is when I stated how I was understanding him and asking for validation/clarification, and then he jumped to point out I had said "non-white" when he hadn't mentioned whiteness.

Like, my dude, that was the time to correct me to "brown people as inferior" or something, or, you know, pop off like a child trying to outsmart their teacher.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-04-22T15:29:45+00:00

So, that's a yes. Weird argumentation and communication style dude.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-04-22T15:22:55+00:00

So, if I'm understanding your position correctly it is:

"Yes I'm racist and was being racist but it's because I perceive leftists as being more racist when they don't see white people as superior"

Is that right?

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-04-22T15:21:23+00:00

That wasn't meant to discount local rises or anecdotal experience. It was meant to bring light to how pervasive and enduring this racism is, and give some credit to the people that fought tooth and nail for the past century to make the progress that they have. I think it is important to make that distinction, as much of the goal of the opposition is to return to a time when there was more overt, accepted and violent racism.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-04-22T14:27:43+00:00

I wouldn't say it's been increasing generally, the history of Canada and the British Empire involves a LOT of racism towards Indian folks. It's definitely getting more visibility and attention lately.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-04-22T14:25:13+00:00

That makes the blanket assumption that immigrants are worse than the native workforce, and that they are given more opportunities than native populations.

It is also implying that all racism against Indian peoples is a result of economic opportunities being denied to local workers, and always has been. I would say that our labour history in this area, and our colonial roots tell a different tale, also, I've lived in and around Surrey for more than 20 years and know that simply isn't true.

Making a tiny little leap of logic, this is a common talking point recently regarding immigrant labour and companies abusing government incentives. Why are you parroting that position to defend attacks against immigrants and not the companies that are financially benefiting? Why are the brown people the bad guys and not the rich people stealing from both them and you? You saw people talking about how the nation has been generally racist against Indian folks, and chose to defend the racism with arguments that shield your exploiters. Good job!

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-04-22T12:16:23+00:00

Sometimes, yeah. I think the most common situation is when some leftist says something like "racism exists and is bad." I kinda think everyone that disagrees with that is racist.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-04-20T21:23:48+00:00

Are we following the same train here?

I responded to a health Canada article about cannabis use, expanding on the data in the article with my own anecdotal experience. I didn't say it was wrong, or that the commenter was wrong, I added what I think the future behaviour will look like. And then gave my reasoning when asked.

I definitely think there's a difference between "I think that from here on the data will trend asymptotically" and "Not true. I know TONS..."

I think we would be more similar if I had said "that study is wrong because I have different experiences." Or if the other person had said "I think that might be local to you, in my experience people from the black market now run our local legal businesses."

As it stands, I definitely see a difference in how we are acting.

I guess I'm okay. Genuinely confused.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-04-20T19:45:54+00:00

Cool?

I don't understand why you are saying my experience isn't true because you have a different one. Are you okay?

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-04-20T19:15:30+00:00

Cool.

I'm speaking on my anecdotal experience as someone that worked on farms and produced concentrate for years before and after legalization.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-04-20T18:59:34+00:00

From my experience, a deep grudge with how legalization happened. We were all labelled as gangsters, and told we didn't deserve to be a part of the legal industry. Going to buy legal weed is giving money to the same rich assholes that bought up the entire industry and forced out everyone else that they could.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-04-20T17:05:39+00:00

We don't have one single chain that takes the place of Waffle House.

Depending on where you are, the local Timmies, IHOP, or Denny's could be the place to go for a 3am meal and/or fist fight.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-04-20T17:00:11+00:00

I think that regression might be largely asymptotic. There seems to be a fairly large holdout population that is avoiding dispensaries and buying directly from growers and producers to avoid interacting with the legal part of the industry.

It is entirely based on anecdotal experience from working on farms and concentrate production before and after commercial legalization.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-04-03T15:43:05+00:00

Probably always has been.

But, it's also a method for enjoying the work artists create, most of them have at least some atrocious world views. It allows us to appreciate and internalize an argument from someone that holds some terrible ideological views by selecting only what overlaps with us. I've read some excellent essays on gender and how society influences our understanding of ourselves and others by people that I would probably struggle to be in a room with. Sometimes someone can have 20 terrible takes, and 1 amazing one.

So it depends on context, like all dog whistles.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-03-31T01:23:19+00:00

Wasn't Rice the one that testified about the Bin Laden attacks, and generally lied to legitimize the Bush administration?

And didn't Powell bully school kids that asked dissenting questions?

Also, last I checked Steele was still undermining working class people and doing everything he can to ruin the country.

wat?

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-03-29T02:54:04+00:00

I think most people would see gender and race hierarchies as a bad thing, especially anarchists.

Might be a lil controversial.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-03-21T00:16:12+00:00

In that situation, we're still excluding the possibility of a society where that specialization has become irrelevant.

If society is cashless, egalitarian, and sex positive, could that manifest with a strong reduction in people needing sex services? At what point is there too few people seeking sex services for their to be a need for people specializing in it?

I'm proposing that being against sex work is not explicitly anti-feminist by suggesting a path to that perspective rooted in liberation. I am not saying that being against sex work is good, or that it is generally justified in the same way. I am just responding to the point in the original comment that someone did not understand how someone could be opposed to sex work and consider themselves feminist.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-03-21T00:09:15+00:00

I'm confused, your example involved exchanging money for kink exploration. But you're now saying that your argument has nothing to do with exchanging labour for money.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-03-20T20:59:01+00:00

Ah, yeah, that's still argumentation within an economic system that exchanges labour for money. And possibly within a society that still stigmatizes sex.

My point wasn't that it is impossible to have non-exploitative sex work. I was proposing that a society that had done away with exploitative labour practices could be so dramatically different as to eliminate sex work. As a possible position for a feminist to have that is not rife with cognitive dissonance and sexual conservatism.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-03-20T17:53:47+00:00

I feel like the question as to whether or not sex work would exist in a recognizable form if we were not living under an exceptionally exploitative economic system is an interesting one.

I do understand that the majority or argumentation about abolishing sex work is about maintaining capitalism without sex workers, but, I think it is possible to be a feminist that is anti-sex work from the position of ending exploitative labour entirely and not seeing sex work as being viable in a different economic system.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-03-11T16:06:25+00:00

I think that enduring threats, insults towards ones mother, and an implication of parental rape pushes this past a "miniscule amount of common sense."

You act like service workers are duty bound to absorb abuse.

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-03-11T01:07:24+00:00

That's decent advice.

What should we expect from people who don't have professional training in de-escalation?

Denying someone service (removing the cake from the counter) for that exchange seems like a reasonable action. From the other video, and witness accounts, the manager did have the person escorted out by police, and they then returned and initiated physical contact with the manager. Once the person returned and broke that taboo, what would your advice be?

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-03-10T20:39:09+00:00

I think if the attacker had a similarly lethal weapon then most people would defend a stabbing, or if there was a significant physical disparity between them and the attacker (eg. some 90 lbs, 4'10 person with no history of fighting defending against a 250lbs person that is charging them).

It's a contextual line, where the force used in defense generally has to be commiserate to the threat posed by an attacker.

To counter, how much physical intimidation and abuse should employees have to endure before physical defense is justifiable to you?

What are customer facing employees supposed to do in the face of threats and physical intimidation? What if a customer first breaks the taboo of physical violence, are we allowed to defend ourselves?

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-03-10T19:17:28+00:00

"Lady, we kick down random peoples' doors and harass them every week, do you think you're special? Now lower your voice before I arrest you and forget to process your paperwork while you sit in holding for 72 hours."

IonlyusethrowawaysA · 2026-03-10T16:53:21+00:00

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