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[–] phario@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

God. I don’t even know what to say.

The article reads so strange…like describing a cult.

His stellar career took on a sour note after he was bullied in a diversity, equity and inclusion training session for Toronto District School Board (TDSB) administrators in 2021, according to a lawsuit Bilkszto filed in court. His sin, in the eyes of facilitators at the KOJO Institute, was his questioning of their claim that Canada was a more racist place than the United States. Canada wasn’t perfect, he said, but it still offers a lot of good. For the rest of the training session, and throughout a follow-up training session the week after, facilitators repeatedly referred to Bilkszto’s comments as examples of white supremacy.

[–] GCanuck@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That’s because it is a cult. No one could seriously claim that Canada was more racist than America.

We certainly have issues. And our treatment of several marginalized groups leave a bad taste in one’s mouth, but more racist?

[–] Kaliax@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 year ago

What's the value in even framing the situation as competitive? This man responded with a reasonable take for such a shit claim. This is another reminder for me to keep my mouth shut more often than not.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, certain areas of Canada may be more racist than certain areas of the US, and certainly racist in different ways towards different cultures, but it's pretty hard to compare to the deep south where in some places they'd happily bring back slavery if they had the opportunity to do so.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any stark difference that you can see is projection. We're peas in a pod.

[–] GCanuck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Similar yes. Different, also yes.

We simply don’t have the same ingrained prejudices that America has. Ours are different and I would argue less so. After all we don’t have politicians that would openly state that slavery benefitted black people.