dbd33

Eh? Canuck74 doesn't write very well but surely "white trash" is right on the money.

orly

Probably like saying everyone in BC is Chinese and everyone in SK is German.

Alan2005

No - and I wasn't actually replying to criticism or anything you've said.

Anyway, do you think the above posters are amused by the caricature of first nations people in GavinR's joke or do you think they are amused because that is actually what they believe first nations people are like? I've seen their posting history and I know where my opinion lies.

Canuck74

Thank you. hahahahaha

dbd33

That's not the case at all. GavinR has been described, fairly in my view, as being an "ignorant moron", he's been invited to stay in Alberta with like minded people. That says that there are such people in Alberta (a point I'd think inarguable) not that all people in Alberta think that way.

GavinR

My what a charming fellow you are. Perhaps you'd like to give some reasoning behind your snap judgement made on a few posts.

Seems like the bully pulpit is alive and well for the liberal elite doesn't it?

GavinR

I'd love to hear your definition of white trash and see how much of it applies

jimf

The movement, with its vast and ill-defined agenda, its vague and shifting demands, its many different self-appointed spokespersons, is open to any number of different interpretations. But the absolutist rhetoric, the dismissal of dissenting opinion as so much “racism,” and above all, the rigid insistence on adhering to the same approaches that have so signally failed to date, do not suggest a happy future for aboriginal relations.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/...nal-community/

jimf

Anyone in Alberta obviously. The province where the residents of the largest city voted in a south asian muslim mayor.

GavinR

Who is also gay, and got voted back in by a massive margin. As opposed to Ontario's largest City who's mayor is Rob Ford.

Vikty

Nobody here has mentioned bill C45. The bill that started the protests. I think Chief Spences "hunger strike" has done nothing other than distract from the real issues. The link gives a brief explanation of the bill and its connection to idle no more.

http://www.guelphmercury.com/opinion...-more-movement.

As far as the original question goes, I don't think you could call it a hunger strike, more of a diet, and clearly its no atkins judging by the pics of her afterwards.

dbd33

Fat and tasteless are supported by your posts about cars, politically neanderthal by your posts on this thread.

dbd33

You will note that above I defended the residents of Alberta against the popular view that they're all white trash. I don't think all of them are.

GavinR

Calling me fat is politically incorrect didn't you know? My posts about cars, I suspect I know more about them than you'll ever know, having certification in motor vehicle engineering and design, 25 years as a classic car restoration technician, building and racing them etc.

So, a couple of tasteless jokes (well one anyway) and you're all wound up, eh? Sad.

GavinR

Since Calgary is the third most ethnically diverse City in Canada, I should think not.