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#1127843
Doctor Whom
If you had even spent one hour studying the difference between cultures of the Old World and the New World, you would understand that we celebrate the individual, whereas they celebrate "blood ties" what binds us as a nation is patriotism and a single language, not queerness or anything other identity that splinters us into minority groups in search of political entitlement.
On same-sex marriage, who espouses individual rights, and who insists on group rights?
3/2/2010 2:51:10 PM
#1127844
toothache
Idiotic yes, fundie no.
3/2/2010 2:55:08 PM
#1127845
Idiotic, yes. Fundie, yes.
3/2/2010 3:00:07 PM
#1127848
Vegetable Rights Activist
I'd like to call Poe, but that is the beauty of Poe's Law. You can never tell with this bunch.
3/2/2010 3:04:54 PM
#1127854
He seems to believe that America was made exclusively for European immigrants and whole Canada is French.
I'd like to know which alternate universe does he live in.
Also, your nickname is too good for you.
3/2/2010 3:08:50 PM
#1127865
Karlsbad
It is deliciously ironic that he begins by accusing his opponents of defining people by their group affiliations whilst claiming to support individualism, but by the second paragraph is already making the very same broad generalizations based on group affiliation that he just condemned. But he's posting on Moonbattery, so this is not a surprise.
Also, he seems to have misused the term 'balkanisation'.
3/2/2010 3:42:54 PM
#1127866
Canadiest
He's right about Quebec, there's no hiding the pandering to them them of last thirty years.
As for our new immigrants, they seem to be fitting in for the larger part. It's definately culture-shock for Toronto and Quebec city as the largest part of 250,000 plus imigrants a year lanf in those cities.
3/2/2010 3:45:13 PM
#1127877
TGRwulf
What...
3/2/2010 4:36:16 PM
#1127880
Zeus Almighty
"Queers" are a tribe? ...
Oh, shit, it's Moonbattery. Never mind.
3/2/2010 4:42:03 PM
#1127883
louislois
The username leads me to call Poe on this one...
3/2/2010 4:49:36 PM
#1127889
Most of us like our country's multiculturalism. No, you don't have to speak either of the official languages, but it'll make it a hell of a lot easier when you have to leave your little cultural community for things like business. And, um, have you heard about what happened when the rights of the French weren't respected? Y'know, all that jazz with riots and threats of revolution. If nothing else, the French have a pretty good score card when it comes to successful revolutions. Well, except for the Acadians.
3/2/2010 5:10:35 PM
#1127890
Gloria
Canada's multicultural philosophy is generally working just fine for us, though I admit you have a point about Quebec. Other than the whiny Quebecois though (and the really whiny ones are at least enough of a minority that their motion to secede was defeated) we're really not suffering from multi-culturalism in the least. sorry to burst the paranoia-bubble.
I don't know if this particular guy is a poe or not, but the sentiment exists in any case.
3/2/2010 5:11:25 PM
#1127893
Old Viking
This is one of those comments that create a bull market in WTF's.
3/2/2010 5:17:27 PM
#1127895
Jewsus
Yes! Us frogs get a mention!
3/2/2010 5:20:41 PM
#1127898
negruvoda
hey, until you have to live in Canada and deal with the multiculturalism, keep your gob shut. I live here, I immigrated here. I know the language, I can get along on the french side too. And you know what, separatists are your thing, at leas ours haven't started any wars. And all we had to do was let them speak their own language. And the rest of the people? I'm actually happy that if I want to learn about another culture, I have a neighbor who knows.
Better to live in an Orwellian country where these retards want to be exactly like everybody else. And this is why I don't like to travel south of the border. You people are nuts, and I can't tell you apart from the normal americans.
Go and do something stupid. Wait, you already did. You spoke.
3/2/2010 5:25:07 PM
#1127902
Newhere
"'Multi-culti'"
...
What is this I don't even
3/2/2010 5:46:07 PM
#1127909
John
The first mistake was to allow French as an official language. The Frogs lost, the English in Canada should have acted like winners, not losers.
What do you mean "allow"? There have been many wars between France and England, none of them decisive. The French-speaking people were there from before the English. The French also occupied much of the central US, which was later purchased from France. There was no "war" between the French East and English West Canada to unite what is now Ontario and Quebec as the proto-Canada, so there were no losers and winners.
3/2/2010 6:10:16 PM
#1127910
werewolf
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. E pluribus unum.
I won't bother to explain to this fellow. He wouldn't get it.
3/2/2010 6:12:36 PM
#1127912
Although Quebec acts like the Scrappy of the provinces, they are also a Have, and much of their wealth is redistributed to Have Not provinces. So they're a key to Canada's wellbeing.
Someone seems to be pissed at the French in the Olympics.
3/2/2010 6:24:26 PM
#1127920
Reverend Jeremiah
This isnt fundy, it has NOTHING to do with being fundy.
The guy is a moron, but I have yet to see his fundyism.
3/2/2010 7:02:27 PM
#1127928
campbunny
Is this person an American? I cringe when people from the ROC comment on Quebec, let alone foreigners.
@ Canadiest and Gloria: why the fuck do people wonder where the Quebec sovereignty movement comes from? Can it have anything to do with your attitude?
3/2/2010 7:44:41 PM
#1127930
Ewww, conservative fundie.
3/2/2010 7:48:09 PM
#1127933
Matante
Campbunny: Yeah, they bash us on every occasion then call us whiny when we react.
3/2/2010 7:57:49 PM
#1127934
Gore
A note to people who don't think this is fundy. FSTDT is not just about religious fundyism, but fundyism in all discourse. In fact this guy is so fundy about his politics he fails to recognize there is anyone in this nation who doesn't think like him:
"what binds us as a nation is patriotism and a single language, not queerness or anything other identity that splinters us into minority groups in search of political entitlement."
Sorry bud, this country is full of minority groups in search of political entitlement, including his. And yes, he, like all fundies, is plagued by his own simple minded idiocy.
3/2/2010 7:59:07 PM
#1127940
nazani14
not fundie
3/2/2010 8:40:13 PM
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