OK, this isn’t up on the Macleans.ca site yet, but there is no way I can wait to post on it.
Their latest cover story touts the “disturbing new poll” of over one thousand randomly selected Canadians conducted by Angus Reid.
This “disturbing new poll” basically reveals that… millions of Canadians think exactly like I do, just as they have for generations, and still do outside places like Toronto and Vancouver.
For example, here are some of the “disturbing” findings:
* 45% believe that mainstream Islam encourages violence. Oddly enough! Not sure where folks get that idea…
* 26% believe Sikhism encourages violence. I think that’s pretty low, considering all male Sikhs claim it is their religious duty to carry knives. Oh, and then there’s this…
* 62% think “laws and norms should NOT be modified to accomodate minorities.”
In the article proper, self-appointed King of Canadian Jews Bernie Farber — who has called me a “racist” on a couple of occasions — is given more space to blather on than I ever will in the pages of Maclean’s.
Bernie is shocked, shocked that his fellow Establishment Liberals’ four-decade long campaign to get us all to love one another and overlook each other’s differences (like how some of us kill people a lot and believe weird stuff and don’t act right, and others, not so much)– a campaign largely (and involuntarily) financed by the same ordinary Canadian citizens who finally got to speak their minds in the poll.
Bernie tsks away at all us bigots and racists for paragraph upon paragraph.
So does Andrew Grenville, the Angus Reid guy. “This runs counter to all we espouse,” wails Grenville, presumably after cashing his hefty cheque.
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