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I've figured out the Canadian Left’s problem in Canada. The whining, the whinging, the anti-Americanism. In short, the general irritating nature of the CBC crowd.

They’re jealous. That’s right. It was so obvious for so long. They’re jealous.

To be a true leftist, you have to be a whiner. You have to be against almost everything western civilization stands for. In the 80’s, they were able to protest against the bomb, and suck up to the USSR for their “enlightened, socialist” system. When that was totally discredited in the 90’s, the left was in disarray. They tried rallying against corporatism for awhile, but that’s such an idiotic ideology, they’ve already given up.


Thank God for the war in Iraq. That gave them something to whine about that was considered legitimate by many in the mainstream.

But that’s still not enough.


So they whinge about America. I figured it out this weekend watching the Canadian Left’s propaganda machine, CBC. CBC ran programming all weekend on the recent “Mississipi Burning” trial in the US. CBC loves it. This is a story right up their alley. White racists, killing and torturing helpless blacks who wanted nothing more than to exercise their democratic right to vote. Forgive the phrase, but it’s a black and white story. I mean, even a right-wing bastard like me gets angry watching riot helmet wearing southern cops sicking dogs on elderly black women trying to attend the polling station to cast a vote. During some of the coverage, CBC made a point of highlighting the fact that they covered the civil rights movement in 1964 extensively. Weren’t they enlightened?


The only problem for the Canadian Left is we’ve never had anything like that here in Canada. Oh, they wish we did. Oh, how they wish. If only the Canadian Left had the chance to march down Yonge St, protesting the murder of young civil rights workers who were trying to encourage black youth in Toronto to vote. Or to storm a bus company in Winnipeg for refusing to allow natives onto their buses. Unfortunately, despite their constant bleating about the inequities in the country, that’s not really part of Canada’s history.

Here, as part of the British Empire, we outlawed slavery in the 1830’s. And up to that point, because of the rural/austere nature of our country, there weren’t many slaves here anyway. We didn’t need to fight a war over it.


And the black people who've come to Canada, (in large numbers only since the 1960’s, as part of a mosaic of cultures) have done pretty well. Black Canadians who complete high school can expect to go on to enjoy socio-economic status comparable to that of their white peers. Blacks, regardless of financial situation, enjoy the same access to health care, legal aid and social programs as everyone else in society. Despite numerous unsubstantiated claims of police mistreatment of members of the black community, all Canadian police forces are actively working to break down barriers in the community, increase the number of black officers in their ranks and decrease the number of black people who become the victims of violent crime.

Selma, we certainly are not.


I'm convinced that’s why the CBC pays so much attention to the civil rights movement, and Mississippi Burning. It’s the equivilent of some on the Canadian Right who wish desperately we had the hard right social policy, kick-ass military, and strict "law and order" platforms the US enjoys.


The difference is though, that while the Right wishes those policies would be adopted by Canadian Governments, the Left wishes that injustices and blatant racism would become widespread in Canada. But unlike the Right, who honestly believe that their policies would make the country better, the Left wants these injustices to take hold just so they’d have something legitimate to bitch about. To be a left winger is to be an anarchist, and pine for the destruction of the very society that tolerates your dissent.

The sad fact, at least for the Jagi Singhs, Neil Macdonalds, and Naomi Kliens of this country, is, this country is so accommodating and soft, the Canadian Left is pretty much neutralized already. And it just kills them.


Oh well, cheer up guys. You can still whine about Bush, the war in Iraq and Enron. You just have to accept that as long as you live north of the 49th parallel, you’ll always be outsiders looking in.

   

Well that was a big load of crap, I'd like back the two minutes of my life I spent reading that.

   

I guess you watched it then. ?

The CBC does exactly what he states.

WTF does a Canadian TV station need to be showing a DOC on Mississippi, where is the Canadian content. ?


Never mind a point of history 40 years ago.

   

I think your being sarcastic here, since you argued we don't need the CRTC to tell us what to see/hear.

   

We don't, but CBC does not need to be showing this unless it falls into the agenda of the CBC.

It's like the little Doc they made about Bush just before the elections last year. Was that just a coincidence..... I think not.

There was no Kerry DOC, that just goes to prove the point.

   

So now you support censorship? Come on man make up your mind.

   

Buddy, we (Canadian People) pay for that station, what does that say about the Gov't when that happens?

A private station fine but Gov't funded it's a joke.

   

Funny some people don't see the bias of that station and funny how they are all the L of this country.

   

How do you know that. You don't know what party i vote for.

   

I said some people not you.

   

So back on topic, why would you be against the CBC showing a doc. about the racial problems in the south. Don't you like to learn about things outside your country. As a future American i would think you would like to learn all you could about them.

   

Dude I lived in Jackson Mississippi for 1.5 years, I don't need the CBC telling me what I saw LIVE,

PS: there were no lynchings or cross burning while I was there.

   

Dude, perhaps there not doing it for you but for the millions of other people that never lived there, and don't know what went on.
PS: Glad to hear there was no lynchings or cross burning.

   

You’re missing the whole point. They only show this sorta stuff to sway the minds of the sheep that watch the CBC. If you play it enough people will believe it happens today. BUSH story was played 8 times that I can remember. The Halliburton was played 4 times. It’s like the radio, if a song is played 3 times a hour soon you’re humming the tune in your head even if you don’t like the song.

   

Ok Ok, I think im getting it now. You don't like the CBC because there trying to convince the world that Bush is bad. Here's a newsflash, Bush convinced the world he's an idiot all on his own. Just because the CBC reinforces that doesn't mean there all that bad.

   

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