Toronto the Intolerant (A Democrat fumes over Canadian anti-Americanism)

The Toronto Star ^ | October 15, 2003 | Jacqueline Swartz

[quidnunc]

Apparently the author thought she saw Canadians as allies in the liberal culture war; the Canadians, on the other hand, just saw her as another American.

Better to face reality and see things as they really are.

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[steplock]

"Americans, I heard at a party just last week are "individualistic" (translation: greedy, out for yourself) and imperialistic — they want to conquer the world. Isn't it amazing that we're not supposed to mind? "

Isn't it AMAZING that ONLY a dimocrat would find that statement as insulting!?!

I am proud to be "Individualistic" and "Out to conquer the world!"

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[concerned about politics]

(A Democrat fumes over Canadian anti-Americanism)

Isn't that like calling the kettle black?

[steve8714]

WAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Why don't Canadians love Dems and hate only Republicans?
We don't have this problem with the French!

[goldstategop]

Liberal Americans angry with Canada? I gotta pinch myself. Here I was thinking they loved the socialist paradise of the Great White North! Guess they got disillusioned fast, like a lot of Leftists who went to the Soviet Union and didn't like what they saw. Canada isn't the Liberal Utopia American liberals make it out to be.

[concerned about politics]

Nobody likes elitist Democrats. All those Horrywood types visiting Canada aren't doing the Democrat base a real favor. LOL.

[XJarhead]

Gee, some people have an irrational hatred of Americans that the author can't understand. Maybe it will cross her mind that there are others in the world, more malevolent than some smug Canadians, who also share an irrational hatred of the U.S.

Maybe it will cross her mind that we are the targets of terrorist attacks not because of Dubya or American "imperialism", but because of that irrational hatred.

Maybe she'll stop being part of the blame American first crowd, and realize that no matter how nice or pacifistic we act, there are people out there who will try to kill us.

Maybe she'll come to understand that the only rational response to such folks is to get them before they get us.

Nah, I doubt it. She'll chalk this up as some inexplicable aberration rather than use it to reconsider her world view.

[concerned about politics]

"But there's a lack of appreciation in Canada for the diversity and complexity in America. Stereotyping denies people a basic human right, which is to be considered a person, not a cartoon."

I agree. All that Democrat "Blacks are too stupid to vote" stuff has GOT to go!

[showme_the_Glory]

No way, eh. Take off.

[albertabound]

Surprise surprise, Toronto Liberals are anti-American. Perhaps she needs to hang out with Conservatives and not socialists or better still, head back home, we have enough Yankee Doodle lefties up here as it is.... and take Robert F. Kennedy with you...

[anoldafvet]

It may be wise for the Canadians to take a long hard look at their French cousins, and what happens when you carry anti-Americanism too far. There are a heck of a lot of auto and truck assembly plants between Toronto and Windsor and their output isn't being sold in Canada.

[concerned about politics]

Of course, at Democrats Abroad get-togethers, the venting is mostly about other things: the Bush administration, its frightening first-strike foreign policy, its "deja voodoo" economics. Yet these gripes carry anguish, betrayal, indignation; Canadians are content to gloat.

Yeh. It must be a real bitch to watch the left wing elitists know it all. No wonder the Canadians see us as arrogent!
This lady needs to take a good look into her own black mirror.

[concerned about politics]

Fat?

Yes. Unlike the Socialist countries like Canada, we actually have food here.

[concerned about politics]

Where does this infantile anti-Americanism come from? Is it a by-product of the Canadian inferiority complex — English Canadian, that is, for none of this is a problem in French Canada, among francophones or anglophones.

No elitism here - NOT!! LOL.
Let's take another look into that little black mirror, aye lady? LOL.
This author is such a hoser!

[albertabound]

Please do not fall into the trap of assuming Toronto liberal elitists represent Canadians in general. The majority of us love and respect Uncle Sam.

[Voltage]

My parents had a cabin in Ontario, about 2 hours from their home in Minnesota. Lots of other Americans had cabins in the same area. They were well received, adding to the economy of an area that survived by tourism and timber. Over a 30 year period they saw more and more Anti-Americanism. It wasn't really hatred, rather it was based in one thing..ENVY. The reason was unspoken, but quite obvious.

To cross the border, for example from International Falls to Fort Francis is like going back 20 years in time.

Most Canadians know there is something wrong, but do not know what to do, or realize there is little they can do.

My parents, who are the nicest people you could ever know, sold their cabin after 30 years and were happy to leave.

[anoldafvet]

I don't. I grew up in Buffalo, NY and spent many, many summers at our cottage on the Georgian Bay. My comment was aimed at the Liberal pocket in the area I described. An awful lot of these anti-American liberals derive their income from sales to the U.S.A., but are apparently unaware of it.

[concerned about politics]

Is the put down of Americans, the main route to Canadian identity? It's hard to understand this toxic brew of shaky sanctimony spiked with envy and resentment. Some Americans have given up trying — they're planning to go back to the U.S.A.

Whahaha. They've hurt my self esteem. I hate them. I'm telling!

Americans, I heard at a party just last week are "individualistic" (translation: greedy, out for yourself)

I have seen people fuming at this basso continuo of insult and prejudice.
"I get it day in and day out
Where does this infantile anti-Americanism come from?

ROTF

[headsonpikes]

Anti-Americanism is near the heart of the ideology of Canadian Nationalism, the Great White North's belated contribution to 20th C. totalitarian thought.

In Canada, as with every other nationalist socialist regime on the planet, the Party found it useful to have an Enemy, upon which to affix blame for the unforseen consequences of the Party's idiot policies. It may sound absurd, but America is the Enemy of the regime in Canada. The CBC holds a 2-minute Hate for America almost every newscast.

Orwell wrote a couple of books about this phenomena. ;^)