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
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4. Toronto's celebrated "diversity" hides reality of city with real economic divisions, intertwined with race and ethnicity.
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5. Celebrations of Toronto's "diversity" have the paradoxical effect of muting analysis & criticism of actually existing racism.
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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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