1. A few quick thoughts Toronto's culture of racism, using this Toronto Sun cartoon by Donato as a jumping point:https://twitter.com/gmbutts/status/526524068775075840 …
1. Writer, The Nation https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ … 2. email: jeetheer1967 at gmail dot com 3. Twitter essayist 4. Drawn by Joe Ollmann
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Gerald Butts
1. A few quick thoughts Toronto's culture of racism, using this Toronto Sun cartoon by Donato as a jumping point:https://twitter.com/gmbutts/status/526524068775075840 …
Jeet Heer added,
2. Toronto prides itself on its "diversity" -- even Rob and Doug Ford (who use every ethnic slur in the book) celebrate city's "diversity"
3. Thing is, Toronto's "diversity" is simply a demographic fact (city has people from around world) and doesn't speak to issues of equality
4. Toronto's celebrated "diversity" hides reality of city with real economic divisions, intertwined with race and ethnicity.
5. Celebrations of Toronto's "diversity" have the paradoxical effect of muting analysis & criticism of actually existing racism.
6. Since Toronto is, everyone agrees, a wonderfully diverse city, it's seen as cranky & extremist to call out actual blatant racism.
7.It's within context of Toronto's contradictions (ideology of diversity, social reality of hierarchy & exclusion) that racism renews itself
8. The Toronto Sun has a special place in the eco-system of Toronto's persistent racism.
9. Toronto Sun created in 1971, out of wreckage of older paper Toronto Telegram.
10. In city's media, Toronto Sun's niche is right-wing tabloid populism, modeled after British papers like Sun.
11. As right-wing populist paper with base readership in 1970s of white working class, Tor Sun mixed soft-core porn with immigrant bashing
12. I've already gone over Toronto Sun's racial history in earlier twitter essay but will just hit a few highlights.
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