The Racist Deep North

Helpess Asian Primitive

Sadly, Canada is a racist country.

Not the sort of racism you may think.

A liberal friend, in a recent column, took Canada to task for its treatment of native peoples. But there is no good evidence of racism there, so far as I can see. He condemned the rest of us, first, for banishing Indians to “remote” reserves, and then for the “cultural genocide” of the residential schools. But there are only two ways a sub-group in a larger population can go: either it segregates, or it integrates. My friend is condemning both. And unjustly blaming the rest of us for what must, one way or the other, have been the choice of the native people themselves.

There is a general principle here that is always forgotten, and always worth remembering: any group that has the government on its side is necessarily not being discriminated against. That's pretty much a matter of definition: if those in power are on your side, you are the beneficiary, not the victim, of discrimination. So much the more so if the media are on your side as well.

So it goes without saying that there is no discrimination in Canada against blacks, or women, or native peoples. The very thought is laughable.

Nevertheless, my Filipina wife finds the racism so fierce she is not sure she could ever stand to live in Canada. She has no such problem in the countries of the Arabian Gulf, and did not experience anything as bad in Korea—both societies that, to be frank, are far from paragons of racial equality. Still, Canada is a good deal worse. Her Filipina friends who have been ascross the Pacific make the same complaints. Moreover, I have seen it myself, not just with her, but with my first wife, who was Pakistani.

The racism is against Asians—perhaps especially Asian women. And the perpetrators are not Canadians generally, but overwhelmingly, Canadian women.

Helpless Asian primitive

It's the feminists.

I think this can be objectively demonstrated. Consider all the controversy about Arab women covering their heads in Western countries. Note that observant Muslim men also follow a dress code: they cover their heads and wear untrimmed beards. Yet who is upset about such attire? Who is seeking to ban it? Who is silly enough to claim the poor men are “forced” to do it, and have no choice in the matter? The point, though, is a blanket condemnation of a non-European culture: all the men are evil bullies, and all the women are helpless victims in need of rescue. This is, chapter and verse, the justification for colonialism everywhere. It was also the historical justification for slavery.

So too the common falsehood that East Asian (i.e., Oriental) women are “subservient” to men. Hence, Asian culture as a whole is condemned. All Oriental men are evil bullies, and all Oriental women are hopeless primitives in need of guidance and control. So too the general campaign against “arranged marriage,” the cultural norm in South Asia. While there are legitimate objections, no doubt, to child marriage, circumcision male and female, and honour killings, the real nature and prevalence of such practices has been consistently distorted in the media as if to foment “extreme feelings of opprobrium and enmity against a racial or religious group”--to use the language of the Canadian Supreme Court.

Helpless Asian primitive.

Some years ago, I came across a Canadian government-funded study that asserted that all marriages involving European men and Asian women were cases of “human trafficking.” Which should, presumably, be prosecuted. As miscegenation always was in the Old South.

Indeed, more and more, to my eye, the New Canadian North is looking like the Old American South.

Note too that the practical result of all the affirmative action programmes is quite specifically to set a quota on the number of Asians admitted, hired or promoted. Studies suggest that, if the quotas were removed tomorrow, the number of “whites” would stay the same. The number of blacks and aboriginals would drop. The number of Asians would rise. 

Helpless Asian primitive

The precise parallel is to the quotas set on Jews in the past.

Note too that it is feminism that is doing all this.

If it were really just the men, foreign and domestic, that the feminists were going after, this, of course, would not make it okay-- this would just make it sexism instead of racism.

But this is surely either euphemism, or a conscious lie. It is ridiculous to think that all non-European women want to be rid of their cultures, their religions, their mores, their husbands, and their families. It is ridiculous to think they did not choose their own husbands, or their own clothing. It is ridiculous to think that they are eager instead to be told what to do in personal detail by Western European women. From the point of view of any self-respecting non-European woman, as well as any self-respecting non-European man, this is all extreme racism.