{"id":9840,"date":"2021-03-19T00:06:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T03:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=9840"},"modified":"2021-03-23T09:08:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:08:29","slug":"quebec-la-belle-province-historically-the-constant-target-of-attacks-from-the-rest-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/03\/19\/quebec-la-belle-province-historically-the-constant-target-of-attacks-from-the-rest-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Qu\u00e9bec, la belle province, historically the constant target of attacks from the rest of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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OK, let Bambi be clear: There is nothing funny about seeing\none of the most welcoming and truly progressive places in the entire world being\nconstantly misunderstood, mischaracterized, linguistically and culturally\nattacked!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, let Bambi be also clear: we have all the rights to not like a place, a culture, a group, a person. Perhaps this is what Dr. Amir Attaran (from the University of Ottawa) suffers from in addition to an absence of nuances despite his HIGH intelligence! Despite his good intentions, he may be blinded by his wokeism. Anyhow, Dr. Amir Attaran is a Professor of Law and Medicine. Bambi regularly reads and enjoys reading his tweets, even those that disturb her as they insult her Qu\u00e9bec. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of his best tweets ever is pinned by him and every time Bambi reads his response to a critic by someone, she laughs and finds him funny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi also likes all his relevant comments about pandemics,\nvaccines, constructive criticism, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, he has strong opinions about the USA, about\nCanada, about Qu\u00e9bec, etc. Bambi does not share many, if not most, of them\u2026 but\nBambi thinks he is free!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So is Professor Verushka Lieutenant-Duval, mind you! She committed the error of apologizing for having used the so-called N-word in an educational setting. She also did not benefit from the support of neither her high administration, nor of some of her colleagues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academic freedom and freedom of expression must apply to all. No double\nstandards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Same for anti-racism. It must apply to all. No double or even triple-standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lately, Dr. Attaran called Qu\u00e9bec the \u201cAlabama of the North<\/em>\u201d and accused a respectable Opposition political party called Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/em> of celebrating the birthday of Hitler, of using anti-semite slurs, and N-words\u2026 just because its Leader, called Mr. Plamondon, publicly complained about his \u201cQu\u00e9bec bashing<\/em>\u201d (and will write an official letter to the University of Ottawa\u2019s President, Mr. Fr\u00e9mont). Sadly the other Opposition party called Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire<\/em> seems to have lost its beautiful left-leaning tendency about true social justice to replace it with wokeism (or so-called racial justice; in other terms divisive identity-politics). \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is free\u2026 even if he is highly disrespectful for Qu\u00e9bec. He calls the latter\u2019s Prime Minister white-supremacist ? and he tells the world in his tweets that Qu\u00e9bec resorts to medical lynching of “racialized” patients (BIPOCs, etc.). Maybe there has been one or two\u2026 or 10 or more cases of racism. Maybe the latest (sadly also tragic one) is still under investigation. Maybe some are more due to incompetence than racism? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhow, in today\u2019s world, words have been emptied of their meaning. Plus, who knows? You may not like Qu\u00e9bec yourself. You may be into wokeism\u2026 or you may see a merit and a ridiculous aspect in all the above. Regardless, Bambi hopes you still have a sense of humour to appreciate the brilliant cartoon of Mr. Yannick Lemay from the Journal de Qu\u00e9bec<\/em>. It is about two University of Ottawa students discussing their new courses. One asks: \u201cWhat course did you register in?\u201d The other student answers: \u201cIntroduction to Qu\u00e9bec bashing!\u201d ?. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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