Responding politely to JJ McCullough without needless conflict, or resorting to rage baiting.



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33 thoughts on “Responding politely to JJ McCullough without needless conflict, or resorting to rage baiting.”

  1. It infuriates me when people in the comments section of for example the CBC, which as we all know stands for Canadian BBC, will say that indigenous people are privileged because they get a free house. Because if they "give" you a home by forcibly relocating you somewhere there isn't drinkable water, that sounds a bit more like kidnapping than Habitat for Humanity. Even if there is technically a building included in the deal.

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  2. Personally I don't know if I see it as a deliberate attempt to exterminate indigenous people. I instead see it as a government who views indigenous people as somehow lesser than its own colonial population. I just want to clarify, this IS just as bad. The only reason I say this is that this is a common type of racism that is a little more insidious. I don't think Justin Trudeau goes "I want to kill the damn [redacted]". I do think Justin Trudeau goes "I wish those indigenous people (who I love btw) would shut the fuck up about needing clean water". I think it's a type of racism that goes hand-in-hand with more modern colonial countries. The racism is laundered through banality.

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  3. Important and interesting: There's a small-but-not-insignificant number of ulta-right pundits who happen to be Canadian, but who also tend to downplay that fact, like Lauren Chen, Lauren Southern, and Steven Crowder.

    I don't know if it's "worse" or "better," but I sure don't like how some other countries applaud themselves for not being loudly, boorishly bigoted like Americans, while being just as prejudiced and just as discriminatory where the rubber meets the road, but just quieter, more polite, more discreet, and more "civilized" about it.

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  4. I think this kind of attitude is something that's kinda common in idk let's call them "nato member states that aren't the main one." /j I just got out of a 5 year relationship with a girl from australia. And there's a lot of anti-american sentiment there too. Over the course of dating her, I went from basically knowing nothing about the Australia and their politics and culture to learning a lot. I was planning to immigrate. Something that I think I found, is there's a lot of apathy. Conservatives are starving the beast they're taking away bus routes and they're underfunding the healthcare service to the point where a lot of people are going private again etc. and a lot of people who are queer and radical and a bunch of other things that would signal to me that I think they should care about stuff like this just don't. All of the things that they brag about as a comparison point between there and here are being slowly taken away from them. And part of that might just be national identity but I think part of it is like deliberate distraction.

    And I just want to shake them and say, "Don't you see that you're becoming us??? Don't you see that you were never not us??? Don't you see that if you keep up this complacency you're going to turn into fucking britain (us but economically much worse off). Don't you see that looking at someone else and being thankful that at least you're not them is playing to loose?"

    I want someone to actually be better. I want to believe in that. None of yall are it though.

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  5. i hate to break this to you but we do, in fact, trade our patriotism for the illusion of safety and often cosplay as canadians while abroad. maybe not canadian flag pins but definitely tell people we're from the great white north. sorry lol.

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  6. As an american im sorry in advance for our brain rot reaching your country also sorry for traffiking fent into your country i was a broke teenager and when youre 19 getting paid 2k to drive 5 hours is a fucking steal i used my profits to buy land that i grow food that i donate to food not bombs my bad

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  7. I really appreciate this video as a Brit who emigrated to Canada and has experienced a lot of the things you talk about in the Canadian national character. Also happy to see someone talking about JJ McC, it's wild that he turned a career as a conservative weirdo and political cartoonist online (seriously he even had a crossover with VG Cats back in the day) into a pleasant milquetoast YouTube persona. Definitely worth exploring more of his weird semi-hidden awfulness in future, if you ask me.

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  8. Speaking as an Australian, you could basically replace every specific mention of Canada with its Australian equivalent and it would be the same story, on account of all of the same reasons.

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  9. I mean, let's be honest, in a decade Canadians will be asking nicely if they could have just a tiny portion of their own water back, after the US comes up and declares it theirs. We all know how the US government feels about countries that find themselves on top of resources uncle sam has decided is his. In fact, with California's harvest yields set to collapse by the 2030s Canada is on track to become our 51 State! Congratulations on joining the empire, guys, citizenship offers literally no benefit for us proles and sadly will come at the expense of your healthcare system, infected as it already is with American companies, always searching desperately for more meat for the grinder

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