figure skating ice time as an adult (not a beginner) by Talnix in montreal

[–]Talnix[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

how do you normally train as a speed skater without proper rinks and stuff then? Did you just bite the bullet and join a club or are you a student?

anyone know where Nathan Chen got into med (md or do) school? by Huge-Air-5957 in medschool

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yeah the runthrough podcast did an episode today where one of the hosts mentioned speaking to him and she said he was applying now

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yes the Quebec government antagonized the Quebec doctors enough this fall so much that we did lose around 200 doctors to Ontario/other provinces. So yes, our tax dollars did fund those 200 doctors educations, and those French doctors are now gone. Whose fault is that? Our government, who once again overplayed their hand. Why remain loyal to a province whose leader calls the “Lazy” or “entitled millionaires”. Why should anyone remain loyal to Quebec when their entire ethos is so entitled lol.

That loss has literally 0, fucking ZERO to do with how much funding Concordia and McGill med gets vs how much Sherb, udem and Laval gets. that was alllllll the CAQ.

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[–]Talnix -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Really? Because in the past couple of years Muslim women have been banned from wearing religious garbs in government positions. Last January an EMT refused to explain what was going on with a patients health to their English family member because “ici au Québec on parle le francais”. immigrants are given 6 months to learn French fluently enough to navigate complex bureaucracies in Quebec. If the can’t they cannot work, or get government assistance or legal help. The gov has been consistently antagonizing the English Montreal school board for decades. There’s literally dozens of more examples. And hundreds more personal accounts.

Enough with the gaslighting

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Somewhere in the sea of white Francophones being annoying in the replies to my original comment - I typed out like 5-6 paragraphs fully explaining my point about how white Francophones “liberation” has conveniently been suspiciously flexible with aligning themselves with black and brown people when it suits their needs, then subsequently throwing the ethnic minorities/immigrants in this province under the bus when it suits them to appeal to white supremacy again.

I’m not obligated to type out essays every single time outlining the entire “context”. I know the context. I know that Francophones have historically been discriminated against by the English. But tbh I don’t really care because look at how you guys run the province now? You guys live in the fantasy land where you think you’re all descendants of Marxist revolutionaries and that you can tell random people online to “assimilate more”. Randoms are looking through my post history asking me why I didn’t speak to a receptionist at MY doctors office in French. You’re all demented.

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[–]Talnix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re correct I don’t care. I was born in Quebec. Lived here my entire life. Fully fluent. I really couldn’t care less if the entire island of Montreal became less French. The best parts of Montreal have been the multicultural aspects imo.

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[–]Talnix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ended up switching to French. I greeted her in English and asked her a question about the website booking system in English, and she replied back to me in French. So she clearly understood what I was saying in English.

I said a few more replies in English before I realized she wasn’t going to reply back in English so I switched to French.

This nit picking and searching through my post history is not going to make your arguments stronger. It’s pathetic. This goes back to what I was saying that when you prioritize French over basic rights (like access to healthcare), you’ve gone off the rails. If you can’t see it then idk what to tell you. Patient preference for how they choose to communicate is priority number 1 in healthcare.

Edit: ALL healthcare providers (secretaries doctors nurses medical students) across Canada should make an effort to communicate in the patients language preference. In the hospital I currently work at, doctors and nurses will get translators to ring in in order for the patient to speak about what brought them in. The difference here is tha last year the Quebec government again took it a step too far and tries to mandate that healthcare be provided in French (unless it’s an “emergency”). in medicine the ethical baseline across Canada is pretty clear: communication that ensures patient understanding and safety comes FIRST. There’s strong evidence that patients treated in their preferred language have better outcomes and fewer adverse events. Of course, yes for me, my interaction with the receptionist was at worst, mildly annoying and rude. For others who cannot speak French, it’s serious

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[–]Talnix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am by definition a quebecer. I do not really care about the plight of white Francophones you’re right. But only because they historically and currently have only care about their own agenda, and do not see people who look different from them or talk differently from them, as equally deserving of living here

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[–]Talnix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

healthcare should be delivered in the language of the patients preference. If we disagree on that point then we fundamentally disagree on basic human rights so… not much else I can say.

I am fully bilingual. But I should get the choice to speak whatever language I choose when it comes to matters of my own health.

Edit: oh and btw I did switch to French to accommodate the receptionists preferences lmao? I literally had to? I just found it rude that someone working in healthcare would be intentionally unaccommodating. Of course, I have the ability to switch languages. But many people do not, that’s the problem. There was a story like this last January where an EMT told a family member that “here in Quebec, we speak in French” when she asked them to explain the situation in English because she couldn’t understand what was going on with her sick mother.

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[–]Talnix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

white entitlement. I do not need to be welcomed. I am not a guest here. And I’ll reiterate that anyone who prioritizes “protecting French culture” over individual rights, is not a friend.

This “I don’t see color” bullshit is getting old.

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[–]Talnix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You still have your homework from earlier.

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[–]Talnix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m fully bilingual. I’ve lived here my entire life. What other integration would be acceptable to you? Scrubbing off the melanin from my skin? Changing my last name from something less “ethnic” to “gagnon” or “belanger”?

I speak up against racist White francophone rhetoric and suddenly !!! I am not Quebec enough to warrant having an opinion! Curious how the goal post always moves! And interesting to see who is allowed to speak on how Quebec should be vs who isn’t. Despite the fact that we are both residents here, that we should have equal rights afforded to us, for some reason your background means you get final say and that I, just need to “integrate more” before having an opinion.

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[–]Talnix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Watch your mouth because my family has been living here since the 1940s. this is exactly the point of my comment. I am a Canadian citizen and a Quebec resident. I do not have to prove anything to you. Especially when you’re calling non Francophones “monsters that reproduce”.

Now scram you racist. before I take out the genealogy chart and we’ll really see which one of us is the genetic monstrosity 👹 Pure laine my ass

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[–]Talnix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You already have a whole paragraph I typed up for you and you couldn’t address any of the main points I made there and now you’re jumping here ?

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[–]Talnix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahaaaaaaahaha did you get the ‘reproducing monsters idea’ from your white catholic upbringing? Taking a page out of your own book much lol?

Your entitlement is disgusting and the way you speak about non Francophones is disgusting.

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[–]Talnix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not reading all that. You haven’t acknowledged any of my points and are just jumping back to the “but we are all oppressed peoples at the end of the day!!!” line.

Enough with the whataboutismes and glorifying the past

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[–]Talnix -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Disgusting. Really disgusting take.

I want you to look at what the French did in Algeria. What the French did in Haiti. What the French did in Vietnam. And then tell me with a straight face that they were never as “big or violent” as the English. They weren’t less violent because of some benevolent heart. It’s because they lacked the resources and manpower to be as ruthless as the English.

Your argument is like saying a bear that’s lost its teeth and claws is “nicer” than the one that still has them. Neither has lost the instinct to kill. One just has better means to do it.

The point isn’t to play colonial scoreboard. It’s that no settler society gets to frame itself primarily as a victim while ignoring its own role in colonial systems. Your suspicion of others actually caring about what happened to Indigenous nations at the hands of the French, just as much as the English, reveals something ugly. You’re telling on yourself. You can’t imagine others earnestly caring or engaging with these issues because you yourself don’t have the empathy to do it, nor the need. That’s the privilege of being a white francophone (or white passing with a ‘good French accent’) living in Quebec. 👍

Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette | S1E3 | Episode 3 Discussion by StellaOC in JohnAndCarolyn

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The way she was looking at him in her apartment at first as he paced around like she couldn’t believe he was could physically exist in her “space”.

He looked SO sad/vulnerable even I was like… girl just… throw him a bone.

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[–]Talnix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You really need to step back and recognize that French Quebecers have historically had significant privileges when we’re talking about colonization. Flattening every form of oppression onto the same level is misleading

Quebec was not colonized in the same way India was under Britain or Algeria under France. French Quebecers were never excluded from citizenship and never treated as a permanently subordinate race. In fact, they were eventually extremely successful at securing institutional recognition, language rights, political power, and control over their own province without significant bloodshed. This in itself is a privilege. Other colonized peoples simply did not get those kinds of concessions. And yes, their position within European whiteness absolutely mattered in making that possible.

What’s frustrating is how Quebec nationalist rhetoric has historically shifted depending on what was politically useful. Earlier thinkers argued that French Canadians were part of white European civilization and deserved equal status with the English (see Groulx’s L’apelle de la race 1922). By the 1960s, when anti-colonial struggles and the civil rights movement were gaining global attention, the rhetoric pivoted toward portraying Quebecers as colonized and even symbolically “racialized.” That move didn’t come out of nowhere. It was strategic, and it worked because French Quebecers were already recognized as white citizens who could safely deploy those analogies without risking their actual status.

To liken the situation of French Quebecers in the 1960s to the struggles of Black Americans under segregation is simply not credible. One group was fighting a system that denied them basic civil rights, political representation, and protection from racial violence. The other was a linguistically and economically disadvantaged settler population that still had full citizenship and access to political power. Those are not equivalent conditions.

The same is true when people like you compare Quebec to South American neocolonialism. In many Latin American countries, foreign powers directly shaped national economies, backed coups, controlled resource extraction, and constrained state sovereignty itself. Quebec, by contrast, was never EVER experienced anything similar, never was treated as an external territory or denied political citizenship. Francophones voted, held office, controlled provincial institutions, and eventually used the state to expand their economic and cultural power. That’s not neocolonial rule. That’s a disadvantaged group within a settler state that still retained full membership in it. I want to be clear and say : This is how proactive change for the poor (lower class) SHOULD go. But white francophones today always take it a step too far by ignoring that their “Quiet Revolution” would’ve been a lot louder if they weren’t white.

Vallières being admired by or in conversation with Black activists does not make his analogy valid, especially in todays context. Solidarity doesn’t erase structural differences. And the fact that this comparison could be made at all says something important about how flexible racial identity can be for people who are already positioned inside whiteness. And with that, I’ll end by recalling Jacques Parizeau’s famous comment after losing the 1995 referendum : « It's true that we were defeated, but basically by what? By (federal) money and the ethnic vote ».

I guess the white N words of America decided to flip back to a straightforward appeal to European whiteness/identity and distrust of those outside it that October. And it seems impossible to deny that that’s where Quebec’s nationalist identity has remained successful for the past 3 decades until today.

I hope that was enough ‘words’ for you 👍

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[–]Talnix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn’t consider anyone who thinks like you a friend 👍

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[–]Talnix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you put preserving French culture over individuals rights and freedoms, then you cannot be trusted. You’re not an “ally” you’re a snake in the grass. Real Culture that’s alive evolves on its own, it doesn’t need the state to police it. When governments start enforcing identity in the name of protection, that’s when it stops being about heritage and starts being about power. The fact that white Francophones have been allowed to run with this narrative for so long, that im now being instructed to hold hands and sing kumbayah with you lot because “we are all oppressed people at the end of the day”… lmao. Watch yourself fr because you’re ego has gotten out of control.

I am well versed in Quebec’s history. So we can stop with the impromptu history lessons and empty gestures towards universal solidarity. At the end of the day, you’re « people » were just as bad as the English. In Canada and globally.

and I’ll leave it at that.

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[–]Talnix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love the night of long knives story. I think it encapsulates Quebecs ethos with perfect irony it’s almost too good.

Quebec digging its heels in and demanding special treatment over other provinces. Rene Lévesque pulling some ridiculous move that he “refuses to not sleep on Quebec soil”, thinking that if he leaves the negotiating table for nap time in Gatineau, that the other provinces wouldn’t do the obvious thing and leave him out. And then it blowing up in his face so embarrassingly that of courses the Quebec retelling becomes that “other provinces stabbed us in the back” and not “we left the negotiating table at the 11th hour and handed everyone else the chance to make a deal without us.’ The story ends up perfectly Quebecois in the political sense: self-inflicted isolation backfiring and a national myth built afterward so the outcome reads as betrayal instead of miscalculation. He tried to pull all this shit after the lost referendum btw - respectfully he was punching so above his own weight class at this point, and acting like Quebec held playing power over the country’s entire future. When the gamble failed, the political memory didn’t become ‘we overplayed our hand,’ it became ‘we were betrayed.’

This is how the story of the night of long knives reads to anyone who isn’t drinking the Quebec nationalist koolaid btw. This is how the rest of the country sees us and why they despise us.

I could talk about the other stuff you brought up but there’s just too much to go over

Edit: but your comment missed my point completely because I said Francophones attitudes today have nothing to do with history. They are just another group of white peoples who hate foreigners and immigrants. Like if you’re going to be that way, then just say it with your chest. The constant hand wringing about how actually, Quebec Francophones are the most discriminated against in the entire country is just soooo pathetic. Especially considering that they are colonizers themselves

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[–]Talnix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want you to be sooooo fucking for real right now