angryfrenchguy

angryfrenchguy

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13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Outremont’s unholy mess · 1 reply · +5 points

I was at the Outremont library, just the other day. There was a man with his daughter and three hassid kids up the sidewalk. The man took his daughter's hand, waved to the kids and carefully walked towards them to introduce the children to each other. The three hassid kids shreeked an and ran across the street, pointing to the little girl as if some monster had approached them. The little girl teared up as her father kneeled softly tried to explain to her in terms a four year old could understand what had just happened.

This attitude, in Maclean's, becomes "a certain detachment from non-Hasidim". Cute.

I won't deny there is antisemitism in Outremont. I even remember the sons of proeminent Liberal senators and lawyers bragging about collecting yarmukles for sport, back when I was in High School. But to tell this story without aknowledging that the Hassidics are themselves an unapologetically xenophobic sect of Judaïsm is to completely miss the point.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Outremont’s unholy mess · 5 replies · +2 points

Hey is Macleans giving out bonuses for insinuations of widespread Québec antisemitism again? Martin Patriquin must be saving up for a summer home! Boom, boom, boom he just doesn't stop!

FYI, Tim Horton, according to B'nai Brith's Anti-defamation league, 52% of Canadian antisemitic incidents in 2009 took place in Ontario.

Still waiting to read about that story in my favourite newsweekly...