ext_27813 ([identity profile] frandroid.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] frandroid 2007-03-17 06:46 pm (UTC)

I'm fine about the reporting on the news itself without looking at the context, but it's the context I'm complaining about. It's like white people using MLK's "content of their character" quote to oppose affirmative action. They're appropriating anti-racist language in order to perpetuate racism. In this case, English Canadians appropriate anti-racist language to portrait the separatists in a negative light, but not because they give much of a damn about racism.

I think the press, at least columnists in La Presse, have been slogging at Dumont a fair bit about reasonable accomodations, and it's been discussed on TLMEP a lot too, with Guy A. Lepage having a clue or two. But the English-Canadian media hasn't done that.

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