winnipeg jets: invite hoosli ukrainian male chorus to sing the anthem in ukrainian
right wingers: i sleep
jets: invite schoolgirls choir to sing anthem in punjabi for south asian heritage night
rwers: WOKEISM!! canada DESTROYED! my child forced to wear a TURBAN by the LEFT!!
I'm going to dissent on this one.
I'm for reduced immigration and for assimilation and integration, not multiculturalism. But look more carefully.
Young Indo-Canadian girls are at a hockey game, singing a patriotic anthem -- to Canada. They're helping to fuse their community to our national song and our national sport. Canadian flags and maple leaves are in the crowd, not foreign symbols or flags.
Yes, part of the song is in a foreign language (I presume it's the lyrics, translated). But in this case, isn't that a "variation" on the theme of patriotism, not a contradiction to it? Like if the anthem were sung in a jazzy way, or in a country western style?
Don't you agree that these earnest girls are more patriotic than Trudeau or his atrocious government, which took Sir John A. Macdonald off our $10 bill, tears down statues, renames streets, apologizes for our history and calls Canada a "genocidal" regime? Trudeau actually rewrote the anthem. Aren't these girls more patriotic than he is?
Given the extreme lengths the political-media-educational establishment goes to denigrate and erase our history, and given the complete absence of assimilation and integration efforts for newcomers, I'd put this in the "they're helping" category.
Especially when contrasted against the pro-Hamas hate marches in our streets, flying Palestinian flags and calling for murder and war.
Canadian hockey fans are the softest, whitest, most fragile snowflakes to exist.
No, you are not being “colonized” or “replaced” because they did a version of the anthem in Punjabi.
Jesus Christ you whiny baby bastards, grow up.
After seeing all the racist people come out of hiding to give their racist opinion on the National Anthem being sung in Punjabi at the Jets game, I think I’m retiring from Twitter for awhile. Disgusted with this City. #SlavaUkraine#CrimeaIsUkraine
Even patriotism expressed in a different way is seen as beyond the pale. It'll never be good enough for the racists and bigots because let's face it fundamentally they dislike those who look differently and behave differently from them. That ultimately is about bigotry and not whether you sang the national anthem in English, French or Klingon.
@KatKanada_TM The national anthem act sets the melody and lyrics of the anthem to the public domain. You are free to translate and sing it in any language. Maybe, instead of complaining and demanding, try doing that
the amount of people threatened by this is CRAZY ... ppl r unable to comprehend that cultural diversity is beautiful and we should celebrate it and that you are the weird one for seeing any problem with this ?? the normalization of racism in hockey continues to appall me
@ScottBilleck Next time I get in a fight I'll make sure to have proper grammar. 😂😂😂😂😂
“Look at me I'm Scott Billeck I’m a Journalist so I also work part time as the grammar police”