What constitutes pandering? Who is pandering? Who is ignoring our commonalities? Acknowledging different lived experience, acknowledging inequality does neither of those things.
First, can we please not use the term "lived experience"? It's a ridiculous redundancy. Experience is lived by definition. The term doesn't mean anything special. 'Experience' is fine.
Pandering to our differences, for example, is people who overuse labels to differentiate themselves in a nauseating swamp of self-importance. I'd say university campuses are rife with this sort of behaviour, for example. No one's more special nor more unique than everyone else, settle down folks.
I agree that acknowledging different experiences and inequality isn't pandering. As I said, that's a separate issue.
There is an awful lot of overlap between people who say what Bernier said and advocate for white nationalism. So forgive me. It just sounds ridiculous to decry more "diversity" when "diversity" continues to add to what is Canadian culture.
Yeah, the first part is true indeed, sadly. I'm pretty sure both me and Bernier acknowledge the diversity of Canada. That's what makes it Canada.
Yeah, lets hope it was all innocent. Laugh all you want.
I said I would laugh at you if you ascribed to me that particularly negative attitude. Which you wouldn't, no doubt, as I'm sure you're familiar with my general worldview, having read enough of my posts, I'm sure.
So-called "white anxiety" is something felt by many people.
I get this too, when my tan is uneven.
It can be benign and natural to feel concerned about a changing society and what it means for one's place in it. You may not feel it and that's fine.
You're right, I don't. I don't have a place in any society. I'm a rootless "citizen of nowhere". I have EU and Canadian citizenship. I'm one of those "globalist elites"...I mean, if a working class kid from Scarborough could be described as such in all seriousness. ahahahahaa
But those that do spread ideas that match Bernier's. That more deversity is something to be concerned about, racism and prejudice are only in the past, everyone is treated equally so racism and prejudice no longer exist, fearmongering about "non-Western values", etc. That's not dangerous in and of itself, but it can fuel hate and violence.
You're right, it can. So can tribalism. I mean, the attitude you describe is a symptom of the tribalism that I abhor. There isn't a good and a bad to it. It's all poor form.