This week, I received a message from a young woman who did not like my remarks on what is called “censorship culture”.
“You say that the wokes threaten freedom of expression in Quebec universities. But why don’t you ever talk about the crackpots of the religious right who, in the United States, are campaigning for the banning of books? »
My response was brief.
“Uh…because I don’t live in the United States!” »
TWO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
“Living in this country is like living in the United States,” sang Charlebois.
He was talking about the American way of life – the highways, the factories, the malls, the consumer society, the money…
Indeed, on the surface, the two companies have a lot in common. Montreal is more like Milwaukee and Philadelphia than Nantes or Marseille!
But you only need to spend three days in Florida to realize that there are as many differences between Quebec and the United States as there are between Norway and Spain.
Unfortunately, by dint of spending their days watching films and series made in USAsome Quebecers end up believing that they live in the United States!
Look at the murder of George Floyd.
According to the thousands of activists who took to the streets of Montreal to denounce this execution, Floyd was killed at the corner of Lacordaire and Henri-Bourassa by an SPVM agent.
Um, I’m sorry, but racism as experienced by African Americans has nothing to do with racism as experienced by black people here.
These are two different realities.
Same for the police.
There it’s Robocop, here it’s the Knights of Columbus.
Same thing with the abortion debate.
When the American Supreme Court revoked the right to abortion and shoveled it into the courts of the States, thousands of Quebecers and Canadians reacted as if the same thing was going to happen here 10 days later!
“Scarlet Handmaiden!” Scarlet Maid! »
However, in our neighbors to the south, the anti-abortion lobby is super organized, whereas here, it’s three peeled and two shorn.
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MOWGLI’S SYMPTOM
There has been a lot of talk about the “Louisianization” of Quebec for some time. How we risk losing our language if we stop being vigilant.
There is another danger that awaits us: the “netflization” of our intellectual life. Losing touch with who we are by looking at others.
Quebec (and Canada) is like Mowgli, the little boy who spent so much time with monkeys that he ended up believing he was one.
Just as the problems that affect the Danes, the Nigerians or the Japanese are not our problems, the problems that affect the Americans are not our problems.
Our history and our political system are different. So does our relationship with guns, religion, state, sex, food, culture, military and First Nations.
WE ARE NOT AMERICAN!
That, too, is acculturation.
Losing all your bearings and no longer knowing who you are.
Take you for someone you’ve never been.
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It’s, like, weird…
While our justice system is cracking on all sides, all sides and our courts are clogged, The duty we learned Thursday that a Montreal mother must fight before the Court of Appeal of Quebec so that her 4 and 5 year old girls can play in a soccer club for boys.
“Girls are more fragile than boys,” the club’s technical director replied to justify his refusal to integrate the two girls.
During this time, it is enough for an adult and vaccinated prisoner to say that he “feels like a woman inside” to be sent to a women’s prison.
Ben coudonc.
Sandro’s sobs
Sandro Grande, the soccer player who, on Twitter, said he was disappointed that Richard Henry Bain did not assassinate Pauline Marois at Metropolis on September 4, 2012, told a press conference that he experienced the hell lately.
Photo Martin Alarie
Sandro Grande
“My family has received death threats,” he said, sobbing.
These threats are unacceptable. And their perpetrators should be arrested and brought to justice.
But Mr. Grande is lucky despite everything. Because the technician Denis Blanchette did not just receive a death threat, this fateful evening. He has been killed.
From one balloon to another
A 60-year-old from Abitibi was sentenced to 24 months in prison for impaired driving. This is the ninth time he has been arrested for this crime.
“The choice to drive after consuming reveals a flagrant lack of judgment,” said the judge.
And the choice not to withdraw his driver’s license once and for all after his third, his fourth, his fifth, his sixth, his seventh and his eighth arrest, what is it?