ugh i want to tweet about anti-muslim sentiment in quebec and “pur laine” quebecois and i keep feeling like i’m staining the whole province
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i guess the thing is: americans, it ain’t all roses up here, decades ago we had martial law in quebec during the October Crisis
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in which separatist terrorists killed a cabinet minister. that wasn’t a race killing, but quebecois extremists have been around for a while
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many quebecois think they’re a sufficiently distinct culture and don’t buy into the canadian multiculturalism thing.
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there’s a phrase that refers to a “purebred” Quebecois: “pure laine”. I don’t think it gets much use anymore but you get the idea
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moving ahead to the 1995 referendum (when I was there!) the head of the Parti Quebecois blamed the “non” win on “money and the ethnic vote”.
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“Money”, of course, meant rich Anglo Montrealers, of which an awful lot are Jewish. And the ethnic vote. The premier said this.
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And Quebec City is the capital of Quebec province, and is firmly Francophone. I’m sure most Quebec City residents are open-minded,
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but it is overwhemlingly white, and Catholic, and even more so once you get out of the city into the suburbs and into the “townships”.
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right, so, never mind the American-ish right wing problem we’ve got out west; Quebec has its own special set of problems.
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I don’t know if these terrorists were “pure laine” Quebecois, or Nazis or Freemen on the Land or what, but in the context of Trump, …
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keep in mind that Quebec has its own take on anti-immigrant sentiment. (And its own immigration laws! It’s complicated up here.) /thread
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