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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Aug 2014
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      7. So some Toronto Sun history. Sun founded in 1971. Founding editor and long-time guiding spirit Peter Worthington was apartheid supporter.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Aug 2014
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      8. Until the very end of Apartheid in South Africa, Toronto Sun ran many columns & editorials defending white supremacy in that country.

      1 reply 12 retweets 6 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Aug 2014
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      9. From early 1970s til 1990, Sun had feature columnist McKenzie Porter who wrote frequent vocal columns advocating eugenics.

      2 replies 5 retweets 4 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Aug 2014
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      10. Porter's position was government should encourage those of good genetic stock to breed, sterilize inferior breeds.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Aug 2014
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      11. From its earliest days, Sun ran many articles and columns demonizing immigrants, especially blacks.

      1 reply 4 retweets 1 like
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Aug 2014
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      12. A piquant example. In 1980s there was scandal at Pearson Airport over immigration officials who forced a Jamaican woman to strip.

      1 reply 5 retweets 1 like
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Aug 2014
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      13. Christie Blatchford wrote column in Sun on controversy saying that Jamaican women routinely strip in front of officers to embarrass them

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    8. Clive Thompson‏Verified account @pomeranian99 18 Aug 2014
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      @heerjeet She *what*?? Holy moses.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Aug 2014
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      @pomeranian99 I'm going by memory, but that was the gist of her column.

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    10. Clive Thompson‏Verified account @pomeranian99 18 Aug 2014
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      @heerjeet I have no reason to doubt you. And man alive would I like to read that one ...

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Aug 2014
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      @pomeranian99 I tried to dig it up once but that era of Sun not digitalized. If I ever find it, I'll post it on line.

      9:14 PM - 18 Aug 2014
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        2. Sean Springer‏ @seanspringer 19 Aug 2014
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          @HeerJeet @pomeranian99 according to an MA thesis, the blatchford article was published in the sun on sept 22, 1993, page 5

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        3. Clive Thompson‏Verified account @pomeranian99 19 Aug 2014
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          @seanspringer @heerjeet Aha, thank you!

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