{"id":10545,"date":"2019-11-21T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=10545"},"modified":"2020-04-23T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:50:23","slug":"632-cherry-pickin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/10545","title":{"rendered":"632 – Cherry pickin’ – Top picks about the Don Cherry controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s remarkable what such an innocuous phrase as ‘you people<\/strong>‘ can tell us about we people<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The termination of Don Cherry<\/strong>‘s career over his concern – and the way he expressed it – about how so few people in Canada today wear poppies on Remembrance Day<\/strong> was less a story about Cherry than about the growing intolerant mindset of Canadians.<\/p>\n

This intolerance <\/strong>is particularly applicable to those obsessed with race, open border immigration, and virtue signalling.<\/p>\n

The associative train of thought, along with a complete abandonment of context that was necessary to condemn Cherry as a racist and a xenophobe is both outrageous and irrational. According to the logic, ‘you people’ = ‘immigrant’ = ‘people of color’ = ‘racism and xenophobia’ – and whatever else one may subjectively wish it to mean.<\/p>\n

When the simple word ‘immigrant’ has become synonymous with the term ‘people of colour,’ or if you prefer, ‘people who are not white,’ this is an epistemological disaster<\/strong>. It destroys our ability to think about – and to distinguish between – the act of moving from one country to another with the colour of a person’s skin. <\/p>\n

This, of course, is exactly how those on the Left want it. Associative thinking destroys the ability and opportunity to discuss each of these issues in a rational open forum. It is a form of political correctness<\/strong> and political correctness is always the enemy of truth.<\/p>\n

Ironically, none of these issues or debates are relevant to the concern that Cherry was expressing.<\/p>\n

Sad to say, when the mindset of the mob has been turned into a forum for virtue signalling <\/strong>, there simply is no way for anyone to express any rational opinion in a way that is Just Right.<\/p>\n

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