tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11635675.post269219183090051860..comments2023-10-29T05:11:37.677-07:00Comments on Porcupine blog: Thoughts on Canadian Genocide and the "Apology".Larry Gambonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965037776214596919noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11635675.post-83961112928328406952008-08-05T14:39:00.000-07:002008-08-05T14:39:00.000-07:00Enjoy your holiday, Werner!Enjoy your holiday, Werner!Larry Gambonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04965037776214596919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11635675.post-78192826914757947632008-08-05T12:47:00.000-07:002008-08-05T12:47:00.000-07:00To continue this ... I did get the upper hand on t...To continue this ... I did get the upper hand on these guys a little later on. My boss was in the restaurant again and as usual making excuses for the dictatorship in China ... the usual shit about low prices, etc.. He started on about dental equipment being made in China and I countered that the World Health Organization stated that China now has one of the worst health care systems in the industrialized world. I told a story from the New York Times about a guy from Scotland who went to China and had to go to a "dentist" there. Apparently the clown didn't even remove the cavity before putting in a filling. Okay ... this doesn't have much to do with racism in western Canada but it speaks volumes about the attitudes coming <I>across the spectrum</I> from the neo-cons to the so-called "progressives" which makes life such a drag out here. At least I've got a week away from these characters, the first holiday in a long time. Thank heaven for small mercies and all that.Wernerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17213034395981099737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11635675.post-59866634414442831392008-08-03T18:12:00.000-07:002008-08-03T18:12:00.000-07:00i go through situations like Werner's comment quit...i go through situations like Werner's comment quite frequently. People don't have sense of history and don't place situations in context.Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04230080850680753260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11635675.post-69305248336359497992008-07-29T22:24:00.000-07:002008-07-29T22:24:00.000-07:00I wasn't aware of the sham of the Truth and Reconc...I wasn't aware of the sham of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in South Africa, until I read at Marxist.com, about how it blunted nationalizing the economy.<BR/><BR/>On radio (NPR), they are trumpeting, the apology as bigger and more meaningful than it is.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11635675.post-80863320044841552812008-07-22T23:35:00.000-07:002008-07-22T23:35:00.000-07:00Dear Larry,Some weeks ago I got into a strange arg...Dear Larry,<BR/><BR/>Some weeks ago I got into a strange argument with some assholes in rural Saskatchewan near where I work. Actually I started on about the gun control business in western Canada. I said that the pro-gun lobby sometimes mentioned that in the country of Switzerland just about everyone has access to weapons and they have very little gun related crime. I pointed out that there wasn't much poverty in that country and that might be the explanation. Then I said if you go across Canada from east to west the general level of violence seems to go up. The prairies are the worst with (as usual) Regina as the national murder capital. I started to point out that attitudes here are generally childish and self-centred. The media here doesn't help of course. One of these jerks started babbling about the "Indian problem" and then my boss started butting in as he usually does when I say something that offends his phony "new age" sensibilities. The best you can say about these types is that they are confused. Anyway the racism out here is very institutionalized as you have pointed out many times. I don't know which is worse ... the open line show jerks <I>or</I> the aboriginal bureaucracy <I>or</I> just the average asshole in the street. This city doesn't do much to encourage the anarchist belief in the virtues of ordinary people. But I really appreciate your coverage on this issue. To paraphrase I think it would be great to hang the last social worker with the entrails of the last priest. I won't be doing this of course but it's a thought.Wernerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17213034395981099737noreply@blogger.com