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21. I admit I write about all this with a certain personal bias.
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22. I wouldn't call myself working class because I'm fundamentally lazy. I try to avoid work as much as I can.
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23. But for the record my grandparents were all peasant farmers in India, my dad drove cabs & my mom cleaned hospital linen.
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24. So by the logic of Jon Kay, I shouldn't be a writer. And it is true that Canadian media circles make me uncomfortable.
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25. On another occasion I'll describe my checkered history in Canadian journalism & trouble fitting in. For now, let's return to Kay.
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26.After listening to Kay, I would discourage anyone from a working class background, white or non-white, from career in Canadian journalism
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27. Working class & want to write? Forget it. Find another trade. The powers that be want Conrad Black & climate denial.
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28. I'm too old and lazy to do anything else but for the kids out there: don't become a journalist in Canada. It's soul destroying.
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29. But I want to return to something I started with: my reluctance to write about this stuff, which I always find very painful.
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30. I really wrestled with whether to write about the Kay interview or not. It's worth asking why it is so hard to raise these issues.
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31. I criticized Jon before when he was hired, so I was worried revisiting this stuff would come across as a vendetta.
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32. And personally I like Jon, and have already stretched my friendship with him near the breaking point.
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