Back to the Maoist Re-education Camps For You, Whitey!

An editorial in the Globe and Mail is very disappointed in Canadians. Despite the prevailing Trudeaupian/Candide crap about all being for the best in this, the best of all possible multiculti dominions; despite society's best efforts to brainwash everyone into manifesting a multiculti frame of mind, people seem bent on observing the reality that, for a variety of reasons, some people seem to have a harder time fitting in. The Globe's "cure" for the malady: do away with the politically incorrect term "visible minority" for a start:

The term “visible minority” may have outlived its usefulness in Canada. That demographic category, used by Statistics Canada and in federal employment-equity law, refers to non-whites, with the exception of aboriginals.

A new survey shows, however, that visible minorities are a very heterogeneous group, and that other demographic markers – such as religion and class – can more accurately predict discrimination and other barriers that certain groups face.

The poll of 2,345 Canadians found that Muslims are viewed in a predominantly unfavourable light. Only 43 per cent of Canadians hold a positive view of Muslims. In contrast, three-quarters view blacks, Hispanics and Chinese positively, and 61 per cent view aboriginals positively. Sixty per cent of respondents also viewed relations between the upper and lower classes negatively.

These findings show important new fault lines in the Canadian mosaic, and new challenges to social cohesion.

“The category of ‘visible minority’ does not provide any meaningful insight any more,” notes Jack Jedwab, executive director of the Association for Canadian Studies, which released the study. “It creates an artificial grouping of people who in fact may have nothing in common.”

Two-thirds of respondents in the study view relations between Muslims and non-Muslims negatively. And 60 per cent view relations between aboriginals and non-aboriginals negatively.

These perceived tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims, and between upper and lower classes, are replicated in the United States and Britain.

In order to promote cross-cultural understanding, public education around the image and perceptions of Muslims and aboriginals would be useful, as opposed to a blanket approach that targets discrimination against all visible minorities...

Oh, gawd. Get set for lots more squishy re-education efforts to quell the cognitive dissonance arising from the clash between the claims of multiculti--that every group/culture/religion is exactly the same as/has something of equal value to contribute--and the observable reality that that's a load of codswallop. (Wouldn't it make more sense to try to help people who are having a hard time fitting in, instead of "educating" those who have the temerity to notice that the emperor is starkers there's a problem?)