Comments on: Overall impressions of free speech symposium http://www.novascotiascott.com/2008/11/01/overall-impressions-of-free-speech-symposium/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:35:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Pesky Pundit http://www.novascotiascott.com/2008/11/01/overall-impressions-of-free-speech-symposium/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Pesky Pundit Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:43:11 +0000 http://www.novascotiascott.com/?p=797#comment-235 Ezra Levant's speaking style may have been viewed as "objectionable" by many panel members, but I've noticed that Canadian human rights defenders of the white persuasion tend to also be terribly "whitebread Anglo types" as well. This was true during the time I spent working in the "race relations" arena in the mid-1980s to the later 1990s. These people's objections to Levant's style as more cultural and social (snobbery) than they are genuinely substantial. Forthright and frank communications styles are ALWAYS labeled "objectionable" by the leftist elite whitebread Anglo Canadians nurtured on the art of not identifying the elephant in the room. How else to explain the mess that English Canada's elite has nurtured over the years? There was a time when Canada's dilemma was one of "TWO SOLITUDES". The Anglo Canadian, flaccid reaction response to that dilemma? Well, rather than "bridging" the solitudes, Anglo Canadians went multicultural. Now Canada HAS SO MANY SOLITUDES that we can't count them anymore. Canada is adrift in a miasma of identity politics that has made the country virtually ungovernable. Frankly, it's all very depressing, and I'm glad to have a way out. There was a time when I loved my country more than I pitied it. That time is long gone. Ezra Levant’s speaking style may have been viewed as “objectionable” by many panel members, but I’ve noticed that Canadian human rights defenders of the white persuasion tend to also be terribly “whitebread Anglo types” as well. This was true during the time I spent working in the “race relations” arena in the mid-1980s to the later 1990s. These people’s objections to Levant’s style as more cultural and social (snobbery) than they are genuinely substantial.

Forthright and frank communications styles are ALWAYS labeled “objectionable” by the leftist elite whitebread Anglo Canadians nurtured on the art of not identifying the elephant in the room. How else to explain the mess that English Canada’s elite has nurtured over the years?

There was a time when Canada’s dilemma was one of “TWO SOLITUDES”. The Anglo Canadian, flaccid reaction response to that dilemma? Well, rather than “bridging” the solitudes, Anglo Canadians went multicultural.

Now Canada HAS SO MANY SOLITUDES that we can’t count them anymore. Canada is adrift in a miasma of identity politics that has made the country virtually ungovernable. Frankly, it’s all very depressing, and I’m glad to have a way out.

There was a time when I loved my country more than I pitied it. That time is long gone.

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