Arpig
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Yes, figured that was where you were going. So, I am assuming that you think any organization that bases itself on color/creed/nationality is somehow painted in a bad light. Then every advocacy group in the world falls into this category. If you feel you need to be that much of a purest so be it. You don't see the need to take into consideration the relative amounts of power each group may or may not have. I see that. So I am assuming you are writing your MP daily telling him to retake Nunavit since it is clearly a Racist Province. Any group that bases itself on race is racist, plain and simple, and yes many advocacy groups do fall into that category. And you are wrong I DO take into consideration the relative amounts of power each group has (or hasn't). I never said that the NAACP was a bad organization, or that it didn't do a huge amount of good. It is a good and needed advocacy group, but it is also racist...it is an advocacy group that discriminates on the basis of race...it can't be made more simple than that. There are times when a racist organization or law is required...like Nunavut...it was silly to pretend that whites were anything but a super minority in that part of Canada, so why not let the locals run their own territory (it's not a province yet), and like affirmative action...it is a racially discriminatory policy that is 100% essential, as is the NAACP...however they are all racist, and racist does not always equal bad or wrong...sometimes it is both good and right, it depends on those power levels and the history involved. That is why we don't have an equivalent to the NAACP here in Canada, not because racist bigots don't exist, but because the relative power balances are not so skewed and there is little to no history of institutionalized racial bigotry...up here we abuse our natives more...thus the need for the AFN & Nunavut up here.
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