2. Doug Ford's attempts to redefine the meaning of racism is much more disturbing than people have registered.
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3. To recap: Rob Ford has history of using vile slurs against blacks, Jews, Italians, and other other groups (I won't repeat them).
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4. Recently a school teacher, out on a jog, runs into Rob Ford and upbraids him for his corruption and criminality.
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5. Doug Ford then calls that teacher a "racist" -- although his comments were entirely directed at Ford's actions, not his race.
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6. Doug Ford:“you can be racist against people that eat little red apples, you can be racist against people that have a drinking problem..."
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7. "...you can be racist against people that are too fat.”
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8. So, Ford family position is if you use n-word you are not a racist (because done on drugs) but if you are criticized, critic is racist
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9. Ford claim that they are the victims of racism is not unrelated to Rob's habit of using Jamaican patois: a form of appropriation.
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10. Ford position: "it is we who are the victims, we who suffer. Attacks on us is the real racism."
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11. Part of what's going on here is a simple tu quoque argument. "You call me a racist, well, you're the racist."
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12. Beyond tu quoque, there is something more insidious: Rob Ford's propensity for minstrelsy, for taking on the mantle of blackness.
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13. The Jamaican patois, the claims to be helping out black youths via football, seeking redemption in black churches: Ford uses blackness
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14. Ford really is a prime example of privilege taking from black culture "everything but the burden"
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