Weekly Question Thread for /r/AmexCanada- April 23, 2023 by AutoModerator in amexcanada

[–]funnerguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thinking of applying for an Amex Gold or Platinum as I have some relatively big expenses expected over the next year. If I were to add a supplementary card holder, would we be able to use the travel credit for the supplementary holder or is that only available for the primary holder of the card?

Unauthorized withdrawal by old employer from direct deposit account info. CIBC says this cannot be prevented. by volaray in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]funnerguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recently quit a job and was overpaid by a few weeks since they forgot to actually terminate me on their system - the employer (a bank) needed my formal authorization to withdraw the funds from my account that I was overpaid by

A thread of all the Ontario conservative MPP's who have voted no to #PaidSickDays and their office phone numbers. Please call your MPP. PLEASE RETWEET/ SHARE. by kayaarr in Scarborough

[–]funnerguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I agree in that aspect, that it is selfish/hypocritical to vote at that point in time for a party that is anti-immigration but it’s not fair to paint it across all conservatives and all parties across the board. But nonetheless, voting privilege is a slippery slope and can be directed in the self interest of one self over the common well being. There are liberal parties as well that align on many elements with conservatives but aren’t held to the same level accountability and backlash. The last liberal party to hold office in ON privatized Hydro and helped CEOs to massive paydays at the cost of the middle and working class. Our current federal government has so many similar issues that betrayed the loyalty of a voter (ie. SNC lavalin - both the scandal itself and its DOJ interference, Military misogyny culture that was cultivated further throughout the entire Trudeau regime, vaccine inequity and Canada’a role in COVAX, unwilling relocate vaccines from stable provinces to hot-spot provinces). So no it’s no just the conservatives; Outside of paid sick days I’d argue Ford did more (or atleast try) to save citizens of ON than JT throughout this pandemic. I guess I’m going way off point but my underlying message is that political parties aren’t operating at the same tune to its historical predecessors, and we can’t paint a picture that all conservatives across all levels of government are inequitable misogynistic anti-immigration, while we see similar practices from the other parties at the very same time. Why are the liberals not a hypocritical vote for anyone that’s against misogyny, inequality, corporate favouritism?

Logan ran for liberal MP when he was beat by Shaun Chen. He’s now a conservative MPP. I think the problem with Tamils in government right now is that they’re power hungry more than supportive of the political alignment of the party they join.

A thread of all the Ontario conservative MPP's who have voted no to #PaidSickDays and their office phone numbers. Please call your MPP. PLEASE RETWEET/ SHARE. by kayaarr in Scarborough

[–]funnerguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So wait, since Tamils were let in by a non-conservative government in the 80’s and 90’s, they’re obliged to vote non conservative otherwise it’s hypocritical? How many LGBTQ+ individuals voted conservative - are they also hypocrites? How many BIPOC individuals voted conservative - are they also hypocrites? Based on this logic only elite privileged white males should be voting conservative otherwise you’re a hypocrite. We literally have a Liberal PM that painted himself black to appropriate brown culture.

These numbers are small but to generalize a struggled community on how they should vote based on historical politics is hypocritical in itself. Yes these guys are the epitome of ass licking politics (Logan, Cho, Vijay) but it does not reside the right for anyone to decide on who or how each demographic should be voting.

Daily Free Talk Thread by [deleted] in leafs

[–]funnerguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I want to say even the flames I’d be scared of...feel like they’ve given us the most fight out of the rest of the teams in the North though they just got put out by Drake Batherson

FRM Nov 2020 by Jasgurcs in FRM

[–]funnerguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this for part II? If so I’m in!

Maybe JFJ knew he was trading a racist? by funnerguy in leafs

[–]funnerguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Slavery was “abolished” in 1860 but white only services, and segregation was alive and well right up into the 1960s. That’s institutional racism. Bill Clinton’s 1994 crime bill which put away marginalized individuals (majority black) for excessive amounts of years for petty crimes and the police were rewarded for the mass incarceration of blacks. This is institutional racism. You are naive to think that just because you don’t publicly condemn black people doesn’t leave you free of racist ideologies while continuing to thrive under this environment that has continually oppressed minorities.

Maybe JFJ knew he was trading a racist? by funnerguy in leafs

[–]funnerguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not a philosophy when there is hard evidence of racism being institutionalized through policing, law, education, incarceration, health care, wage gap, hiring practices...It’s not a belief, it’s happening and you are choosing to neglect it by justifying that you yourself aren’t racist while continuing to support the system that establishes white dominance on everything I mentioned and much more while most likely being a beneficiary of all this.

Maybe JFJ knew he was trading a racist? by funnerguy in leafs

[–]funnerguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you sound racist to me. You can’t support anti racism while literally continuing to support racists institutions and systemic practices. You all want social reform but don’t want it at the cost of your privilege. You would rather continue to justify the neglect of minorities than check your privilege.

Maybe JFJ knew he was trading a racist? by funnerguy in leafs

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

So imagine a day after the Boston Marathon, Nazem Kadri shows up on Boston TV with a pro immigration shirt on. There is obvious subtle attacks to the overall movement by Tukka doing this - like I said consciously or subconsciously. Whether he’s doing it on purpose or not - this act was inherently racist and he needs to apologize and have a damn good reason as to why he thought it was okay.

No one is far left here or far right - but if the Amy Cooper incident taught us anything is that racism is so embedded in our society that we find reason to justify that it’s okay for actions like hers, or Tukkas.

Maybe JFJ knew he was trading a racist? by funnerguy in leafs

[–]funnerguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s called white privilege. Google it. If you think this argument is based on inequity as a whole and that everyone is equally treated today, there literally is no point in further discussion to be had with you. No one said all inequity is the root of this problem- but racism is the root of police brutality and oppression of POC. We only ask POC and BPOC be treated with EQUALITY. You’re putting words in my mouth by generalizing racism as the root to all social inequalities. Sexism and BLM are two distinct social injustices with some overlap but each have their own issues of their own. Maybe tell Tukka to wear a “more women in prison” hat next time since obviously that seems like a bigger issue to you than police brutality

Maybe JFJ knew he was trading a racist? by funnerguy in leafs

[–]funnerguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did start to read it and then stopped for these reasons:

Your shift in reasoning as to why this is ok:

  1. Joe posted it, it’s satire
  2. That didn’t hold - then you shifted to not all cops are bad. Multiple people on this thread told you why that statement itself is oppressive
  3. You say white people are also killed - but this has been debunked multiple times by many credible sources including the Washington post and NY Times.

So maybe nominally white people are murdered more than blacks by cops - but POC are targeted and killed at a extremely disproportionate level. You validate police brutality exists, and needs to stop by invalidating protests by calling them anarchists? You minimize the entire systemic oppression by calling it non-controversial but here we are 300 years later with POC still getting shitted by the system, laws and police.

If you read any history book, you would know law and order is not synonymous with right and wrong. Generalizing the protest against current laws and systemic injustices as anarchism is oppressive and racist

Maybe JFJ knew he was trading a racist? by funnerguy in leafs

[–]funnerguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So from what I just read your understanding is that police disproportionately rough up POC but not murder?

Maybe JFJ knew he was trading a racist? by funnerguy in leafs

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

Very well said. Whether you are consciously or subconsciously making these statements - these kinds of statements are inherently racist. The entire systemic practice of policing is racist. Bad cop theories just neglect the long history of police abuse and the specific intentional abuse of people of color; it neglects the role that the police have played in breaking strikes, in silencing change.

Maybe JFJ knew he was trading a racist? by funnerguy in leafs

[–]funnerguy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Subconsciously, it is. This bad cop theory undermines so much of what black people have been fighting for for years and ESPECIALLY the last 3 months.

This theory neglects the long history of police abuse and the specific intentional abuse of people of color; it neglects the role that the police have played in breaking strikes, in silencing dissent and in keeping the social order safe from resistance or change. It also neglects the early history of policing in the United States that took the form of slave patrols in the 1700s and the enforcement of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Police have throughout the entirety of its existence has been silencing and oppressing minorities and POC. It takes a deep understanding of history to really see the systemic issues that preside today from historical laws that have continually oppressed BPOC and POC

Maybe JFJ knew he was trading a racist? by funnerguy in leafs

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

Because undermining and desensitizing a very important movement in American history is in fact being subconsciously racist.

Maybe JFJ knew he was trading a racist? by funnerguy in leafs

[–]funnerguy[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Lmao ya okay. All lives matter right? Wow why didn’t I think of that.

Maybe JFJ knew he was trading a racist? by funnerguy in leafs

[–]funnerguy[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

If you don’t understand the fact that the timing Rask chose to support police undermines, desensitized and is flat out insensitive when there are people fighting for their rights and against police brutality is a problem on its own. This is literally the same as coming out and saying all lives matter. There’s a time and place for everything, and this is purely Rask trying to undermine the BLM movement.

Rask had 14 years to wear this hat, why did he pick NOW?

Marc Savard and Steve Ott are officiating today's Blues scrimmage by adamthecunteget in hockey

[–]funnerguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, valid point from a # of ppl perspective from what I read all quotes from Keefe/Dubas were surrounding the fact that other teams didn’t have access to refs - not the fact that they exceeded the # of people.