6. Since Toronto is, everyone agrees, a wonderfully diverse city, it's seen as cranky & extremist to call out actual blatant racism.
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7.It's within context of Toronto's contradictions (ideology of diversity, social reality of hierarchy & exclusion) that racism renews itself
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8. The Toronto Sun has a special place in the eco-system of Toronto's persistent racism.
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9. Toronto Sun created in 1971, out of wreckage of older paper Toronto Telegram.
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10. In city's media, Toronto Sun's niche is right-wing tabloid populism, modeled after British papers like Sun.
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11. As right-wing populist paper with base readership in 1970s of white working class, Tor Sun mixed soft-core porn with immigrant bashing
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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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13. Sun persistently & till the end supported apartheid in South Africa. Sun editor cheerleader for CIA Angolan henchman Jonas Savimbi
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14. Sun columnist Mackenzie Porter wrote countless articles celebrating eugenics until his retirement in 1990.
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15. When Sun Editor Peter Worthington lost race to Greek-Canadian candidate, Sun headline complained about "the Greeks."
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16. When Airport security sexually harassed Jamaican women, Sun published column saying Jamaican women love stripping nude for officials.
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Gerald Butts
17. Let's return to that Donato cartoon of Oliva Chow:https://twitter.com/gmbutts/status/526524068775075840 …
Jeet Heer added,
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18. How many stereotypes are in that cartoon? 1. Chow in Mao Suit (she's Red Chinese commie) 2. dwarfish 3. slant eyed 4. doing laundry
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