There's a generational divide on this issue -- similar but sharper than the divide on Apu.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @shinangovani
Generational or class? Or do the two overlap?
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Replying to @StephenMarche @shinangovani
They overlap -- the 1st generation immigrant who is working class will have a different take on this than their Canadian-born kids, who often go to university and are professionals.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @StephenMarche
Jeet is correct. And I get it: a generation who had to fight for basic survival, and to be seen at all, see these sort of matters as esoteric at best.
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Replying to @shinangovani @StephenMarche
But other dynamic is that people can be convinced by one side or the other. I came to Canada in 1970s, so Apu on Simpsons never bothered me. But I learned problems with it from listening to younger Canadian and USA born Desi.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @shinangovani
Yeah, but you're you Jeet. How common is that really?
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Replying to @StephenMarche @shinangovani
I'll add that with Trudeau I was inclined to give him a pass on the Arabian Nights stuff but then it turned out it wasn't isolated incident & he also did blackface, which made everything worse and less forgivable.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @shinangovani
The words "forgivable" and "unforgivable" are in radical semantic flux.
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Replying to @StephenMarche @shinangovani
Well, I hold to the radical position that virtually nothing is unforgivable -- with the proviso that for some things earning forgiveness requires tremendous work.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @shinangovani
Like leading a country that took in more refugees than any other in the world last year?
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That's a start.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @shinangovani
It is interesting that Canada has been offered three distinct choices that are almost pure: So woke it hurts, bumbling casual racism, active considered racism.
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Hard not to see those choices as fairly representative of the country.
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