This was the actual, official death of Canada. This was the moment we ceased to have any semblance of a country.
Don Cherry was a Canadian legend, a household name, someone that every young Canadian grew up watching. He was a professional hockey player, then a coach, but most famously the main personality on Coach's Corner, where he would give commentary on hockey games, mixed in with a few of his own views.
He was fired for saying that newcomers to Canada should respect our customs. He spoke brashly and with conviction, as he always did, and he used the phrase "you people" in reference to fresh immigrants, but fundamentally he was fired for trying to enforce adherence to our tradition of honouring our fallen soldiers on Remembrance Day. He suggested that "you people" need to wear poppies as a sign of assimilation, of respect, and of appreciation to the people who sacrificed their lives to build and defend our once great nation.
If this man, beloved by so many and for so long, can't ask that Canadian traditions be respected, then no one can. That was the message sent by his firing and humiliation. The government and media wanted all Canadians to know that "we can't expect immigrants to do anything at all when they come here, they must be given free reign to opt out of our society, even as they come here 'for our milk and honey.'"
If no one is allowed to defend our culture, then our culture ceases to exist. If we can't hold newcomers to even this most basic standard, wearing a poppy-shaped pin for one day a year, then we can never hope for "assimilation," because there is nothing for anyone to assimilate into.
And this is what we have seen since then; newcomers forming their own ethnic enclaves, doing business in their own languages, hiring their own people, bringing their foods and their festivals and their customs with them, never even attempting to understand what Canada is all about. Most don't know a single thing about Canadian history aside from "White people stole the land from natives," and many don't even speak either of our official languages. Why should they? They have their own cultures and enough people to ignore ours.
Don Cherry being fired signified the end of any expectation of standards being upheld, and the end of the ability for Canadians to stick up for themselves. Every day since then, multitudes of foreigners have come here, and none of them have ever thought about what it means to be "Canadian," other than to be given a piece of paper from the government. This place and its people have no meaning to them, aside from what we can give them.
Unless there are serious changes, and we grow the backbone to stick up for ourselves again, soon, we Canadians will be a minority in our own home, disenfranchised and disempowered, left at the whims of the ungrateful hordes who resent us.
This Remembrance Day, wear a poppy with pride, and take note of those who don't. They are not your allies.
@justalexoki Um... no one is gonna mention fent....?
Calmed George Floyd down so much his heart stopped pumping, if that's not the definition of "opposite of coffee" I don't know what is.
@SeanCarleton The genocide in Gaza is real, it was live-streamed. The genocide in Canada is lacking any and all evidence to suggest it ever took place.
Freedom of speech matters, when people are denied the ability to address issues with words, things rapidly deteriorate.
@mangohedonist@Barryy13@7sjya It all has to come to an end soon, none of it is sustainable. The cracks are already showing, all the system needs to burst is some strain.
@xxhaslem Hitler was a wise man and a warrior who was trying to help his people. He made enemies with the wrong people and they used the armies of the world to crush Germany and the German people, then used their influence in the media to make it seem as though they were the victims.
@OnecaresDenTV@capek78@VladTheInflator Did you miss the part of history where he surprise attacked the USSR to begin an offensive war against them? Or did Ghislaine Maxwell's dad take that out of the history books?
@WhiteHouse These edits and memes are only funny when people think you're actually helping the country in some way.
This comes across as very Saudi-style third world flexing when you aren't improving things in any meaningful way for your own citizens.
@RDonaldson91 Do you speak as someone from the "far right?" Because I do, and anyone who thinks like me thinks that every single Sihk needs to be booted out of the west yesterday.
Always funny to see browns play the victim card, only to immediately talk about how they are going to "make us lick the shit off their hands after they subjugate us."
This is the sort of thing that makes Whites racist.
@ToStandIsToRise@BasilTheGreat You know, you could just live in Pakistan and avoid us "racist useful idiots." You could even avoid our "world war," seeing as we're only going to be fighting it in our lands.
@TheDruidic1@david_parker@zcstocks Voting doesn't do anything, he was selected PM before he was even an MP. As the saying goes, "when the ballot box fails, the cartridge box awaits."
@Skeptique@riversorare Well the average of the bell curve is literal retardation. Not every Indian with an IQ below 70 has Down syndrome, that's just what a 70IQ means for a White person, for them 70 is just a normal person.
@Skeptique@riversorare I live in Canada. Believe me when I tell you that the ones on the lower end of the bell curve are leaving their country in droves.
I was saying that the Natives did have slaves, we Whites did not. Slavery was banned in the British Empire, so we did not have slavery.
We are Northwestern Europeans btw. And were being replaced too.
But that can't continue forever, either the White man's back will give out from the burden of carrying the rest of you and we'll all die, or the White man will shed his burden and he will survive without the rest of you. The current predicament is unsustainable.
In Canada, you make Canadian Dollars (worth less than USD), make lower wages, have to pay higher taxes, have to pay higher rent, and everything from insurance to food will cost more as well.
But we have free healthcare (that you will have to wait to use, sometimes hours when you have minutes, or months when you have weeks, or best case is you get years when you might have years to wait).
There are almost a billion and a half Indians, just statistically there are going to be some smarter than the average White person. There are vanishingly few Indian geniuses though, and the vast majority of Indians really are not worth talking to.
How would you explain the current state of India if not by saying "they are just stupid?"
Don't say "colonialism," the Chinese were colonized and they managed to make the most of it because they have an average IQ around 105.
@7sjya@mangohedonist Slaves were never meant to be considered citizens. In the Constitution it said the only people who could be citizens and vote were "free, White, landowning men of good character." Seems kind of explicitly White Nationalist to me.