Posted on 01/17/2019 11:36:11 AM PST by Cubs Fan
White comedian Zach Poitras was banned from participating in comedy events in Montreal, Canada, after organisers claimed his dreadlock hairstyle was inappropriate.
Poitras was originally supposed to appear at two comedy nights taking place at the Coop Les Récoltes bar, located in Montreal’s famous Quartier Latin area, but was rejected by the organisers, who wrote on Facebook that his dreadlock hairstyle violated their discrimination rules, Montreal newspaper Le Devoir reports.
“We will not tolerate any discrimination or harassment within our spaces,” the organisers wrote, and added that cultural appropriation, in their view, was when “someone from a dominant culture appropriates symbols, clothing or hairstyles that come from historically dominated cultures.”
The bar, which also serves as a co-op run by the Public Interest Research Group (GRIP) of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), argued that the comedian may not be racist himself but that his hairstyle acts as a “vehicle” for racism.
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If they try to get me to stop eating Mexican food, I’m going to war
And no more taco Tuesdays for you.
Actually I was making a point that they are Self-Stereotyping themselves.
If ONLY BLACKS CAN HAVE Dred-locks and Corn Rows, then only blacks can eat fried chicken or watermelon................
Funny how black women who straighten their hair aren’t called out for cultural appropriation.
These people are marginalizing themselves.
Wouldn’t wanna perform at a place with rules such as this anyway. They would be censoring your act as well and waiting for any potentially insensitive remark in your act. It’d be like walking on eggshells, which is far from ideal for a comedian.
The “Vichy” is alive and well in Montreal/Quebec and anything French in Canada, except the Marxism that is alive in Trudeau and his followers, including the old NDP.
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