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Whites Only play group advertised in lower mainland. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There were posters for whites only parents and tots play group in the lower mainland. https://bc.ctvnews.ca/poster-advertising-whites-only-children-s-playtime-sparks-outrage-in-b-c-community-1.6576911

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

Anybody wanting a whites only country should go back to whitelandia where they came from.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What are the odds they don't want to vaccinate their children?

Weird thing to do as well, as it seems like an invitation to retaliation. Who thinks that behaviour is tolerated? Guessing rationality isn't their strength to begin with.

Hope this bites them in the ass hard enough that their kids don't care to follow the example.

Really wish people could be baseline decent human beings.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"This vile garbage isn't welcome in our community, or anywhere else,"

"And now I must go. My men-only golf league is about to tee off."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

"And then I'll go home to my 55+ only rancher community"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Or it's a troll

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Eh, I give it 50/50. As long as Her Majesty Queen ~~Roman Dildo~~ Romana Didulo I roams the land I have to concede that any nonsense is possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If it were a troll we wouldn't be feeding it.

[+] [email protected] -13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Something tells me no one would even be talking about it had it been a black-only play group or chinese-only.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Classic false-dichotomy. There is a German Cultural Centre, a Ukrainian Cultural Centre, and an Italian cultural centre near me. I remember the Luso-Canadian Club for Portuguese-Canadians. There is a Robbie Burns night held annually near me. No one complains about these.

What is unnerving is that this isn't one of those. This is something very different.

What would be the cultural trappings that this club would seek to preserve, and how would those cultural trappings be exclusively colour coded?

I'm not an anthropologist or sociologist, but even I can see that this is a false equivalency.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

What would be the cultural trappings that this club would seek to preserve, and how would those cultural trappings be exclusively colour coded?

Classic false dichotomy. The ad is clear that the intent is to allow children who "look the same" to play together, not to preserve a culture.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Only if you pretend that the last 200 years of North American history are moot.

Idiots like you stripping events of context and pretending to innocently ponder them alone, without accounting for any other factors, sicken me. It's performative, insincere, mocking both-sides bullshit, and it will not stand.