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  1. wakamex
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    only read the first bit right now, but it seems to me we deal with the same shit everyone else does. it's just more often overlooked by a thicker veneer of liberalism. we elected a populist...

    only read the first bit right now, but it seems to me we deal with the same shit everyone else does. it's just more often overlooked by a thicker veneer of liberalism.

    we elected a populist demagogue in Ontario

    allowing the wearing of the hijab became a political issue last election

    acts of violence motivated by discrimination do occur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting

    even our do-gooder liberals:

    • disingenuously steal popular campaign ideas from other parties then abandon them less than a year in, when their own committee showed massive support among the public and experts (>80%)
    • play party politics with legal issues affecting sensitive economic issues (see: jobs), willing to lie about and subvert the legal process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNC-Lavalin_affair

    immigration is unpopular with a sizable intolerant group. just saw this headline: Majority of Canadians against accepting more refugees, poll suggests

    not to mention ongoing issues with aboriginal rights: "The Executive Summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission found that the state pursued a policy of cultural genocide through forced assimilation" with the last such "school" closed in 1996

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