{"id":536,"date":"2016-07-09T04:55:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T04:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2016-07-09T04:55:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T04:55:23","slug":"dissecting-torontos-new-anti-racism-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Dissecting Toronto\u2019s New \u201cAnti-Racism\u201d Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Dissecting Toronto\u2019s New \u201cAnti-Racism\u201d Posters<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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The City of Toronto has released a new poster which is being featured on bus stops around the city.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>The poster is problematic for a number of reasons:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>\u00a0\u00a01.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The most obvious problem is the depiction of white people as \u201cracist\u201d. This message incites hatred towards European Canadians and reinforces a damaging stereotype.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>\u00a0\u00a02. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 By disseminating this trope of the \u201cracist white person\u201d Toronto is contributing to the message that \u201cracism\u201d is \u201csomething that white people do\u201d and thereby pairing \u201cracism\u201d with \u201cwhite people\u201d in the minds of the public. This is damaging to European people everywhere because it enables others to disguise attacks on white people as attacks on \u201cracism\u201d and it splashes hatred for \u201cracism\u201d onto white people in general.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>\u00a0\u00a03.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0On a deeper level, the third problem is that the posters reinforce the construct of \u201cracism\u201d itself. The term \u201cracism\u201d is a rhetorical weapon which is used, primarily, to oppress and stigmatize political assertiveness on the part of white people and to moralize us into a state of political impotency. For example, in this poster the white person is depicted saying \u201cgo back to where you came from\u201d and this is meant to be an example of \u201cracism\u201d. Although presented in a deliberately simplified fashion, his words convey an entirely legitimate political position. This country is a democracy, and simply by being citizens here, people are granted a share of political power over the spaces in which we Europeans live. It is a rational political practice for European Canadians to endeavour to maintain a greater portion of power over the environments where we live by making up a greater percentage of the voting demographic. It is our responsibility to ensure our own well-being as well as that of our progeny and political power is the only thing that enables us to do that.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>\u00a0\u00a04.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Another point of interest is how the messages of this poster conflict with our state policy of multiculturalism. Multiculturalism is a policy which says that we should maintain our ethnic and cultural identities and continue to view ourselves, and others, not simply as uniform \u201cCanadians\u201d, but as members of groups with unique ethnic, cultural and historical backgrounds. In this poster, the European tells the African Muslim to \u2018go back where you came from\u201d and she responds with \u201cWhere? North York?\u201d as if she\u2019s oblivious to what people actually mean when they use that expression. The whole project of multiculturalism is to tell people to not forget where we came from, and yet this poster seems to imply that it\u2019s ridiculous and ignorant to suggest that our histories and identities extend beyond our relatively recent time in Canada. Not only is it entirely truthful and accurate to suggest that we are more than just \u201cCanadians\u201d, but that is the very perspective that our government has been encouraging for the past 30 years!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>\u00a0\u00a05.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s interesting that, in explaining the project, campaign spokespersons say that the effort is aimed at helping \u201cracialized communities\u201d. The term \u201cracialized\u201d is Marxist rhetoric which refers to anyone who isn\u2019t white. On top of the fact that this campaign incites hatred towards European Canadians by portraying us as \u201cracist\u201d, if it is also the case that it explicitly excludes certain groups from its scope, then it is guided by a special-interest agenda and shouldn\u2019t be receiving public funding.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>\u00a0\u00a06.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to their press release, the goal of the campaign is to \u201ccreate a Toronto that says \u2018No\u2019 to all forms of discrimination and racism\u201d, and yet, in light of their anti-white themes and Marxist rhetoric, one can\u2019t help but wonder, how would the team behind this campaign define \u201cracism\u201d? If it were asked of them, \u201cisn\u2019t this campaign \u2018racist\u2019 towards white people?\u201d, how would they respond? If, like the Marxists in our universities, they hold that it\u2019s not \u201cracism\u201d if it\u2019s against white people and that \u201conly white people can be racist\u201d then we\u2019re sure the white people who paid the taxes that helped fund this effort would be very interested to hear that.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>\u00a0\u00a07.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Toronto brands itself as \u201cthe most multicultural city in the world\u201d and its identity is rooted in the idea that diversity and multiculturalism are inherently good. The official city motto is \u201cDiversity Our Strength\u201d. And so isn\u2019t it ironic to now see Toronto, the flag-ship city of Canadian multiculturalism, investing its resources in combating inter-ethnic conflict. So which is it, Toronto? Is \u201cdiversity our strength\u201d or is it a source of tension, violence and conflict?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>\u00a0\u00a08.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The final problem is the timing of the posters. Toronto says that the posters are, in part, a response to \u201ca number of crimes committed against Muslims earlier this year\u201d. As evidence of said crimes, CityNews links to story of a Muslim woman who was pushed and called a \u201cterrorist\u201d\u2014in November 2015\u2014by a black male! But, just three days before the campaign\u2019s launch, a Muslim committed the largest mass shooting in the history of the United States. On the heels of this landmark massacre, why are white people the ones being condescendingly thought-policed? If Toronto is concerned about inter-ethnic conflict, then aren\u2019t Islamic bullets a bigger problem than white words? Isn\u2019t getting murdered a more serious concern than being told to \u201cgo back where you came from\u201d? Muslims kill us and then Toronto tells us that we\u2019re the problem? This poster is an insult.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0As the forces of globalization continue to create the demographic pressures which are turning European peoples into minorities in the spaces where we have lived for generations, expressions of hostility and hatred towards us will become of greater and greater significance. In this context of anti-white hostility and demographic weakness on the part of Europeans, it is important that we have institutions to study and identify our interests and advocate on our behalf. This is why Students for Western Civilisation exists, and this is why we need a #whitestudentsunion.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Dissecting Toronto\u2019s New \u201cAnti-Racism\u201d Posters by: STUDENTS FOR WESTERN CIVILISATION The City of Toronto has released a new poster which is being featured on bus stops around the city. The poster is problematic for a number of reasons: \u00a0\u00a01.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The most obvious problem is the depiction of white people as \u201cracist\u201d. This message incites hatred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[352,385,330,384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}