It amazes me that so many supposedly progressive people have sympathy for the racists and antisemites who make up most of the PQ and Bloc membership.
And if you're not sure how they're racists and antisemites, just look at former Quebec PQ Premier Jacques Parizeau's comment about why his side lost the 1995 secession referendum. He blamed …
It amazes me that so many supposedly progressive people have sympathy for the racists and antisemites who make up most of the PQ and Bloc membership.
And if you're not sure how they're racists and antisemites, just look at former Quebec PQ Premier Jacques Parizeau's comment about why his side lost the 1995 secession referendum. He blamed "money and the ethnic vote" - in other words, Jews and anyone who wasn't white and of French descent. If that isn't a horrendously bigoted comment, I don't know what is.
That's not what we're reacting to. (Or at least not me, I should say; I can't speak for Michael or anyone else.) I've been a Francophone for some small period of time now and understand Quebec politics better than some. But you went from (1) Parizeau (who died almost a decade ago) and the sovereigntists to (2) PQ is full of racists to (3) there should never be a French-language debate to (4) there shouldn't be a Spanish-language debate in the U.S. That's quite the series of leaps. And just because some of us don't make those jumps with you doesn't mean we need our liberal credentials questioned.
It amazes me that so many supposedly progressive people have sympathy for the racists and antisemites who make up most of the PQ and Bloc membership.
And if you're not sure how they're racists and antisemites, just look at former Quebec PQ Premier Jacques Parizeau's comment about why his side lost the 1995 secession referendum. He blamed "money and the ethnic vote" - in other words, Jews and anyone who wasn't white and of French descent. If that isn't a horrendously bigoted comment, I don't know what is.
That's not what we're reacting to. (Or at least not me, I should say; I can't speak for Michael or anyone else.) I've been a Francophone for some small period of time now and understand Quebec politics better than some. But you went from (1) Parizeau (who died almost a decade ago) and the sovereigntists to (2) PQ is full of racists to (3) there should never be a French-language debate to (4) there shouldn't be a Spanish-language debate in the U.S. That's quite the series of leaps. And just because some of us don't make those jumps with you doesn't mean we need our liberal credentials questioned.