{"id":4841,"date":"2020-06-15T21:26:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2020-06-15T21:42:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:42:58","slug":"mr-trudeau-can-you-please-stop-calling-bambi-a-racialized-canadian-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/06\/15\/mr-trudeau-can-you-please-stop-calling-bambi-a-racialized-canadian-deer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Trudeau, can you please stop calling Bambi a \u201cracialized\u201d Canadian deer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BambiCanadian-1024x421.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4842\" width=\"491\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BambiCanadian-1024x421.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BambiCanadian-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BambiCanadian-768x315.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BambiCanadian-1200x493.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BambiCanadian.jpg 1945w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 85vw, 491px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite any good intention, Bambi would like to kindly ask you Mr. Trudeau to please stop calling her a \u201cracialized\u201d Canadian deer, as per the article below and several others, citing you or your honourable ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-victoria-news\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2rhG1cDBB3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnews.com\/news\/trudeau-wants-to-move-very-quickly-on-anti-racism-initiatives-minister-says\/\">Trudeau wants to move &#8216;very quickly&#8217; on anti-racism initiatives, minister says<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Trudeau wants to move &#8216;very quickly&#8217; on anti-racism initiatives, minister says&#8221; &#8212; Victoria News\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnews.com\/news\/trudeau-wants-to-move-very-quickly-on-anti-racism-initiatives-minister-says\/embed\/#?secret=2rhG1cDBB3\" data-secret=\"2rhG1cDBB3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi is a Canadian deer. Period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like all the other Canadian deer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please do not put her so-called \u201crace&#8221; (she prefers the term &#8220;ethnolinguistic background) into what looks like a tribal category. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without wanting to, this seems like a recipe for\ndividing Canadians, not for uniting them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Bambi, this seems not only unwise but also insulting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please, rise above all this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please unite us together, today more than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without wanting it to for sure, your anti-racism language\/efforts may sadly backfire on us all, as they may act as seeds for communitarism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi and all her community of deer are Canadians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are proud Canadians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We do not want to be treated with neither pity nor holiness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We want to be treated equally to ALL Canadians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are neither better nor worse than our fellow Canadian\ncitizens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A<\/em>s immigrants, we want our kids (and\/or young relatives) to have a sense of belongingness to their adoptive country or to the country that has adopted their parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We want them\/us to have a sense of responsibility toward our society and country, in addition to our Canadian laws to protect our rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, Mr. Trudeau. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite any good intention, Bambi would like to kindly ask you Mr. Trudeau to please stop calling her a \u201cracialized\u201d Canadian deer, as per the article below and several others, citing you or your honourable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4852,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions\/4852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}