RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

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« The statistics are pretty damning (…) It’s impossible to deny that there’s an obvious and pervasive problem with diversity and representation in Quebec — a problem that needs to be tackled honestly, earnestly, and with as little defensiveness as possible. You can’t change what you refuse to acknowledge. You can’t acknowledge what you refuse to see. (…) It’s no less of a problem elsewhere in the country, but that’s no excuse for inaction. Unfortunately, many will jump at the opportunity to use a conversation on racism as ammunition against Quebecers.

(…) It’s practically impossible to tackle problems of diversity and racism in this province when the two largest minorities in the country (anglophones within Quebec and francophones within Canada) constantly attempt to monopolize the conversation and one-up each other on discrimination. It’s twice as difficult for either of these groups to see themselves as at fault, or having a role to play in perpetuating discrimination and systemic racism as dominant forces within Canadian and Quebec society, when so often neither of them is capable of seeing themselves as anything other than dominated and victimized »

SOURCE : RICOCHET