4. For many white Toronto, the police are emblem of respectability. For many non-whites, agents of racial profiling & capricious harassment
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5. Rob Ford is the price Toronto is paying for not dealing forthrightly with marginalization of immigrant communities.
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6. Homophobia of course is the toxic read meat that Ford uses to feed his alliance with socially conservative immigrant communities.
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7. There are well-to-do Torontonians who think that racism and homophobia aren't part of city's daily life. They are great fools.
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8. There's some parallels with Ford's use of homophobia to divide & conquer and similar technique in contemporary France.
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9. Toronto police is kind of terrible at minority relations. That too is plays into how non-whites see the Rob Ford story.
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10. Last thought: wouldn't argue that Ford will be re-elected & his pitch will work. But important to understand what his pitch is.
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11. We also need to think about class divide within immigrant communities. Ford's pitched aimed at working class.
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12. Anecdotal but I'd say immigrants who are teachers & accountants have soured on Ford more than working class immigrants.
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