Daryl Wakeham
2 min readMar 25, 2019

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“Whether he has studied their strategy directly, or absorbed it intuitively, he has modeled his project on theirs.”

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“Those who choose instrumentalization or indulge in victimhood rhetoric will have taken their marching orders from a terrorist, and given energy and succour to white nationalism.

Brilliant.

In Canada, many academics use the shaming spectre of the non-contextualized Komagata Maru Incident, the Chinese Head Tax, the Internment of Japanese Canadians and the Indian Residential School debacles to further her dire warnings about white supremacy.

However, the use of Canada’s past racist actions means that in perpetuity ‘white’ Canadians must be branded with the sins of their ‘forefathers’, even if one’s ancestors are of mixed heritage, were not living in Canada, or even had the political power to enact or stop such travesties.

This constant mention, supposedly to remind us to remain vigilant against any racist social movement or government action, unfortunately has the opposite effect.

It perpetuates a dangerous, preposterous and bigoted opinion: only white people were, only white people are, or only white people can potentially ever be, guilty of racism.

Ergo, they are unworthy of inclusion in cultural discussions as they will supposedly revert to their entitled racist legacy.

Lastly, if ‘white people’ are not given a platform upon which to express cultural concerns, and are not only silenced but also banished, to an insulting politically correct identity-vacuum labelled “ignorant’ or ‘white privilege’ or ‘colonizer’, then the very dangerous white supremacists will most assuredly provide it for them.

And who in the hell wants that?

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