Yesterday, the Social Justice Warriors were out for blood. Their target was Jason Kenney.
What horrible thing did Kenney do?
He complimented a young Iraqi immigrant on his quick mastery of the English language. That monster!
The online backlash against Kenney was as swift as it was ridiculous.
Worse still, Global News made it a national story.
Fake outrage isn’t newsworthy. But if the media can use it to attack a conservative, they’ll never hesitate to cover it.
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Funny, but my mother died years ago from breast cancer.
The Rebel isn’t news – so let’s get that out of the way and Sheila is just spewing her hyperbolic opinion here.
That is the whole point of a slow news day for networks. You talk about shit that isn’t really newsworthy, but kills time.
In my line of work, I meet many people per day, multiplied by days and weeks and months. Rarely the same people twice. I’ve met people from Nigeria and Kenya, Iran and Iraq, China and Philippines, eastern Europe, south America, southern and central Africa. (Met one cutie who’s recently immigrated from Israel, but I wouldn’t want to piss her off, as she’s not too long out of the IDF…). All that to say that I’ve heard many languages, and many attempts at English… or, should I more accurately say, Canadian. (We have our own ways of speaking.) Some people have lesser accents than others, and it’s often easier to tell who has NOT been born here versus who has (children of immigrants). I’ve met people whose Canadian is virtually native (born here more than 2 generations), but they themselves were not born here (nearly accentless, “flawless”).
(And then we get Atlantic Canada, where some regions of Newfoundland and Cape Breton rival northern Scotland for incoherence… but that’s another story.)
Where someone else comes from interests me, because it’s an introduction to another country, another culture that I most likely will never visit. In many cases, where the accent is thicker, I compliment the people on their command of what’s obviously not their native tongue. In some cases, where I’m guessing 2nd generation Canadian and it turns out to be immigrant, I compliment the people on their LACK of accent.
So what’s the issue with Kenny? Why don’t people — the media, for example — jump all over my case for complimenting them on a second language? I’m doing the same thing he is, and doing it nearly every day…
(Oh, and as far as “accentless” goes, Hollywood has decided that “no accent” takes place in northwestern Washington State, and much of western Canada (minus the ‘eh’). So it’s possible to speak in “accentless” English… Canadian… whatever. But I DO get the point that to someone else’s ears, I have an accent.)
Left and Right are both guilty of poor judgement by blowing this way out of proportion to leverage opinions. Shame on all of us.
Left and Right are both guilty of poor judgement by blowing this way out of proportion to leverage opinions. Shame on all of us.
Yea, sure. Okay. Whatever.
Slow news day?
What Kenney failed to realize is this kind of attitude unfairly stigmatizes some “foreign” accents while simultaneously failing to acknowledge that “unaccented English” doesn’t exist.
I am not looking to score points with you or debate with you. Generally speaking – Kenney IS a douchbag and an embarrassment. Even many conservatives think that. I was simply pointing that out in case people here forgot.
“You also seem to think that The Rebel is some sort of popularity contest. Even if it was the case that only ONE person liked what I had to say or valued my contribution here, that would be good enough for me.”
Jimmy’s original comment was:
Jimmy Da Silva commented:
What horrible thing did Kenney do? You mean besides being an absolute douchebag and embarrassment?
I’m trying to figure what the one person would be that thinks this is a brilliant debating point? I don’t even think Doug Brinkman would, and he is closest to Jimmy in philosophy.
But then I am just a grey-haired old fart who has voted around the spectrum the last 45 years, and don’t get low information twitter-twit opinions.
The fact that you bring up Stalin as some sort of comparison, certainly doesn’t do you any favors in the intelligence department.
You also seem to think that The Rebel is some sort of popularity contest. Even if it was the case that only ONE person liked what I had to say or valued my contribution here, that would be good enough for me.
The reality is the majority of Rebels have a problem with ANY kind of opposing opinion. They want The Rebel to be a bubble for conservatives only.
Stalin had opposing opinions also. I am sure that the majority of Rebels would welcome opposing INTELLIGENT opinions. Act accordingly.
Many of you are aware of the Conservative candidate that got let go today for making Homophobic comments. How could the left wing MSM resist.
A NDP candidate(also of Sikh descent) that is running for Brampton Ontario riding. Made the identical homophobic comments in 2005. And he is still running
How many Canadians are going to be aware of this? Where is responsible journalism. This is the problem with the media leaning left. Even our Jester admits to the CBC leaning left. Heck if Harper can get elected again with all this media against him. He should go down in history as the greatest Prime Minister ever.
Roger,
What you don’t seem to get is that – what you consider to be a troll, other posters here consider them to be a valuable contributor and they can handle opposing opinions unlike yourself.
The post Roger was referring to is:
Jimmy Da Silva commented:
What horrible thing did Kenney do? You mean besides being an absolute douchebag and embarrassment?
That is Jim-Bob’s valuable contribution to debate.
So…quick poll…Jimmy good? or Roger good?
My vote is Roger. What is yours?
What you don’t seem to get is that – what you consider to be a troll, other posters here consider them to be a valuable contributor and they can handle opposing opinions unlike yourself. You don’t get to decide who stays and who goes.
Your post merits a reply, as follows;
Back tot he issue at hand. Is complimenting a young boy on his progress in learning a second language (and perhaps one of the more difficult languages around) a bad thing to do? I would say that in the context of this situation it was well meaning and should have been taken as it was intended. Maybe a Liberal on this message board can explain how this would have been a bad thing as well if it had been someone such as Irwin Cottler that had made the statement.