ChrisD

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• Commented on Happy Seven Closed, Finally
  With the e-coli outbreak from Harvey's and the ongoing Lysteria crisis people should be more concerned that the Stephen Harper and their deregulation evangilists have been re-elected. There are worse vermin than a few rats running around Chinatown...
• Commented on Queen's Park Media Analysts Are So Ghetto
  One problem is when white people set themselves up as experts or arbiters of what is or is not racist. “Ghetto dude” has racialized subtext and association, referring to Malvern as a ghetto has racialized subtext and associations. I doubt...
• Commented on Queen's Park Media Analysts Are So Ghetto
  What is the difficulty with recognizing and acknowledging the existence of systemic racism. Systemic racism is not so much a matter of identifying individual racists, it is the operation of cultural assumptions that devalue and denigrate people or groups on...
• Commented on Black Ice
  The media seems to be fixated with Black as tragic hero, yet to be a tragic hero does one not need redeeming and admirable features to begin with? To me Black is more of a vaudevillian villain just short of...
• Commented on Go Mad with Pride
  Mad pride began as an irreverent and celebratory movement in which to give voice to a group of people that are socially marginalized. Psychiatric survivors are both socially and economically marginalized, facing discrimination that interferes with the right to access...