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I noticed this popping up everywhere in the past week and apparently Canadian media is concocting a reputation assassination campaign against Jagmeet Singh, the recently-elected leader of the NDP. He won in a landslide and is generally popular with the leftist crowd. Some people have issues with him but the sense is that he's Good Enough for now. Recently Justin Trudeau has been visiting India and has been getting a lot of poo poo over how he's handling the trip, and the Canadian news landscape is now aware again of Sikhs. Canada has some history with Sikhs, namely a plane bombing where hundreds of people were killed. It's still a heavy topic today and I know people who know people who were killed in that event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182 And the motivation behind that bombing has been a sore point for Sikhs for a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_anti-Sikh_riots There's more to the issue but there's your primer. Also I'm not Canadian, maybe some other Canadian posters can expand more on this. Anyway, this sort of sudden nationwide pivot on attacking Singh for his perceived "terroristic sympathies" is pretty coincidentally timed with JT's trip and I'm convinced there's an agenda behind it being pushed by political actors because the corporate media are useless cum socks. https://twitter.com/SikhProf/status/974338551193186304 https://twitter.com/sunny_hundal/status/974034912050384896 https://twitter.com/sunny_hundal/status/974081888875941888 https://twitter.com/sunny_hundal/status/974346418667311105 https://twitter.com/SikhProf/status/974339677363822593 https://twitter.com/VancouverSun/status/974436505430216705 (As a note: the Vancouver Sun is owned by Postmedia but isn't related to the Sun tabloids. It's Vancouver's major local newspaper and runs alongside National Post and Globe & Mail.) There's some very deliberate framing here in that last article from the Vancouver Sun: quote:“The risk is that the leader of the NDP is seen as too closely identified with his ethnic community and with some of the more militant elements within it,” quote:Seated beside Shamsher Singh on the 2016 panel is the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh, who is not shown disagreeing. In a third video Shamsher Singh says, “If you want self-determination, you’re going to have to take up arms.” quote:MORE RELATED: As Jagmeet Singh condemns terrorism, second video shows him speaking alongside Sikh separatist (National Post) Todd is framing Singh and other Sikh up as religious extremists comparable to Trump and the American ISIS folks. Then this paragraph pops up: quote:Former federal Liberal cabinet minister Ujjal Dosanjh, a one-time NDP premier of B.C. who decades ago was brutally beaten for opposing Sikh terrorists, said Wednesday that Singh has publicly acknowledged he was inspired to jump into politics because of what he insists on calling, against the opinions of human-rights specialists, the Indian government’s “genocide” of Sikhs in India in 1984. Let's dig into that accusation a little bit. Remember this link from earlier? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_anti-Sikh_riots Thousands were hunted down, beaten and raped, and killed in India. Canadian Sikhs were pretty loving upset about this! quote:Official Indian government reports numbered about 2,800 killed across India, including 2,100 in Delhi.[5][6] Independent sources estimate the number of deaths at about 8,000,[2][7][8] including at least 3,000 in Delhi. quote:Mobs carried iron rods, knives, clubs, and combustible material (including kerosene and petrol). They entered Sikh neighbourhoods, killing Sikhs indiscriminately and destroying shops and houses. Armed mobs stopped buses and trains in and near Delhi, pulling off Sikh passengers for lynching; some were burnt alive. Others were dragged from their homes and hacked to death, and Sikh women were reportedly gang-raped. The cited article is another one from Douglas Todd: http://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-genocide-pogrom-crime-against-humanity-words-do-matter and it's mostly concern trolling about the definition of "genocide" vs "pogrom". quote:The ultimate goal is not to insist on using loaded words, but to stop further persecution. To that end Sikh activists may be justified in continuing to press the Indian government for greater justice for 1984. On its own it's bad but not terrible. Today, though, it's being wielded by Todd to try to paint Singh and the people he's fighting for as exaggerating their suffering and framing him as a religiously motivated zealot who doesn't have Canadian citizens' interest at heart. This person has a good article digging into the story behind this sudden media shift towards Canadian Sikhs, and postulates that it's mostly Modi and his supporters. I won't post excerpts from it, and it's not suited for that anyway, go into it and read the whole thing. It has a much more thorough summation of the history behind this than what I've provided here. https://twitter.com/Garossino/status/974420436904628224 OK, I lied: quote:So perhaps it wasn't at all surprising when Indian media took up the charge that Canada nurtures terrorists. The surprise is that, instead of demanding substantiation of such a shocking allegation, Canadian media widely repeated and amplified it.
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canadian conservatives have long been searching for their holy grail of racism like muslims and the USA, but they can never quite find it hint: it's native canadians, we're insanely racist against natives
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Mar 16, 2018 17:59
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Yinlock posted:canadian conservatives have long been searching for their holy grail of racism like muslims and the USA, but they can never quite find it ^^ This guy knows what's up One additional factor in 'racist against Sikhs' is that it might play well with some people from the subcontinent. That may seem trivial until you remember there are seats in the GTA where that population is pretty large, so it could ideally mean some seats for the cons And they probably got the idea for this from the Trump campaign (A very good link for people who think they can join the whites in racist idiocy despite not looking white themselves.)
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Mar 16, 2018 18:24
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Yeah racism in Canada, and especially in the conservative movement, is always just beneath the surface. And that surface doesn't hold up well to any prodding, so racist garbage pokes through very easily. Think of the skin on top of a pudding. Also, I might be wrong but I don't think anyone who isn't Sikh or already down to hate on the browns gives a gently caress about this story
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Mar 16, 2018 18:29
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a few months ago there was video of a crazy lady yelling at him about being a Muslim he didn't even deny it or contradict anything that she was saying, the accusation was so insanely stupid
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Mar 17, 2018 01:53
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I never met a mean Sikh op
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Mar 17, 2018 02:03
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so glad we've as a people moved beyond saying things like barbaric cultural practices op
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Mar 17, 2018 06:18
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The Modi theory makes sense. Canada is so intellectually bankrupt we can't even innovate our own media slander, it has to be imported.
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Mar 17, 2018 14:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRHcQlouzAQ
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Mar 17, 2018 15:01
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They should wear helmets
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Mar 17, 2018 15:08
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Canadian universities now hosting openly racist people https://twitter.com/newworldhominin/status/974664205298290689
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Mar 18, 2018 02:55
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https://twitter.com/SikhProf/status/978663259648774144
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Mar 27, 2018 17:01
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a primate posted:The Modi theory makes sense. Canada is so intellectually bankrupt we can't even innovate our own media slander, it has to be imported. Canadian media is shockingly lazy. Reading or reprinting special interest groups press releases is a sizeable percentage of reporting here. It also explains how Trudeau managed to such a bad trip to India when they invited Atwal. OTOH there is absolutely terrorists being actively sheltered here so maybe the truth is in the middle.
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