Via someone who will make it her life’s work to never let anyone forget;
“Our community is deeply concerned with Mr. Kinsella’s comments. Kinsella repeats the most vulgar and offensive stereotypes by associating the meat served by Chinese restaurants to cat meat. He has hurt the feelings of the Chinese people and disrespected the Chinese culture,” continued Yuan.
“This is not the first instance of such intolerant remarks by Mr. Kinsella therefore we call upon Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff to fire Mr. Kinsella as his senior strategist and apologize to the community.”
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I think I smell human rights complaint…
You can email the good professor at Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca or contact the office with your concerns.
Update – Ignatieff advisor in alleged cover-up.
That’s true, Warwick. That is in fact the entire crux of the issue, isn’t it?
But it is also true that there is no honor among thieves. If a big enough stir gets created, those “friends” will throw ol’ Warnout under the bus in a New York minute. Cushy gubmint job vs. loyalty to a buddy? That’s a no brainer for these guys.
Personally I can’t see it being worth it to do that much stink-making work just to forcibly educate one idiot. I don’t care, really. Let him carry on with his idiocy, I’ve got things to do.
But then, Warnout isn’t suing me for anything. If he was, I’d be calling the various HRC’s pretty much hourly. And the Liberal party, and Iggy’s office, and all of Iggy’s political opponents, the newspapers, TV, radio, etc. Mailing lots of paper letters, too. Maybe even arranging some personal face-to-face meetings with various big cheeses, bureaucrats, politicos, etc. One person can make a BIG stink. Ten people? Oh yeah, baby.
Kinsueya victims, take note. Strike while the iron is hot.
in England you’ll notice the skinned rabbits hanging for sale in the butcher’s all have their ears left on….
there’s a good reason for that…..
That’s true, Warwick. That is in fact the entire crux of the issue, isn’t it?
But it is also true that there is no honor among thieves. If a big enough stir gets created, those “friends” will throw ol’ Warnout under the bus in a New York minute. Cushy gubmint job vs. loyalty to a buddy? That’s a no brainer for these guys.
Personally I can’t see it being worth it to do that much stink-making work just to forcibly educate one idiot. I don’t care, really. Let him carry on with his idiocy, I’ve got things to do.
But then, Warnout isn’t suing me for anything. If he was, I’d be calling the various HRC’s pretty much hourly. And the Liberal party, and Iggy’s office, and all of Iggy’s political opponents, the newspapers, TV, radio, etc. Mailing lots of paper letters, too. Maybe even arranging some personal face-to-face meetings with various big cheeses, bureaucrats, politicos, etc. One person can make a BIG stink. Ten people? Oh yeah, baby.
Kinsueya victims, take note. Strike while the iron is hot.
Kinsella must be starved for attention, ignore the bum.
Could be this was K’s confused way of sending a love note to SDA?
What’s the big deal, since the Chinese are some of the most racist and xenophobic,self-loathing people on the face of the planet.
Geez, give the guy a break.
I’m a certified, paid-up RWDB and I completely distance myself from those trying to impose petty, small-minded, bigoted and resentful mind-control on the rest of us.
Chinese eat cats, Vietnamese eat dogs. So what?
Warren go out and enjoy your meals, (ir)regardless of the provenance of the ingredients.
Jack
Yeah phil, got any more stereotypes: how do their eyes look, do they talk funny?
We know they always eat cats cause a liberal lawyer “asskicker” with a gubmint job says so.
How about muslims, gays, blacks, and women?
Please enlighten us all.
waiter at Yang Sheng restaurant …
“ahhhh so welcum back mista Kinsella….here your table ….you likee your regular Dim Fuk Dum Gai?”
superduper K man…
“yes of course Wong number 8 son my trusty heathen coolie….and have a rickshaw pulled by your inscrutable mother with her bound feet waiting for me after my meal….and btw have you noticed any suspicious activity in your filthy restroom stalls ?…aside from your customary white slaving and selling opium of course.”
“You miss the point.”
No, I understand the point. But he’s probably produced better material to reveal his hypocrisy than a comment about Chinese food.
Warren is bending over backwards more than a Chinese acrobat checking for cellulite to get out of this one.
What’s the big deal, since the Chinese are some of the most racist and xenophobic,self-loathing people on the face of the planet.
Posted by: philboyd at January 29, 2009 1:55 PM
They might be racist, but self-loathing? No way. They’re very comfortable with themselves. I wish we could replace every middle eastern immigrant with a Chinese one.
You obviously don’t know very many Chinese.
chinee makee good citizen….work hard…porite….pay tax….chinee rady very pritty…
not so musselman…men and rady have mustache…he onry drive taxi or on welfare…beat wife…strangle children….kill his neighbour….allee time hate Jew and not pay tax….allee time bitch and moan….and hate dog…
Chairman Kaga wrote: “There are worse things said by this guy and his ilk to worry about.”
Even worse than THIS and his mug shot?
John- I’m showing your post to my girlfriend. You are in a rot of twubble.
“Warren go out and enjoy your meals, (ir)regardless of the provenance of the ingredients.”
Say it ain’t so, jlc! Eating pets is okay in your world?
dp…
nay gong gwong doong wa ma?
The press will spare Iggy Puff, their great liberal hope, from anything tainted, count on it.
Anybody else notice what an Obama lapdog Jack Layton has become?
(I hope it’s okay to say ‘lapdog’…)
Ummm … not to defend Kinsella, but when I lived in Ottawa, we had a few Chinese restaurants busted for … guess what? Yup … meow meow. One I recall was on Riverside Ave, and another on Bank Street.
What’s the big deal, since “the Chinese are some of the most racist and xenophobic, self-loathing people on the face of the planet.” Edward Teach | December 27, 2008 11:42 PM
Whoops, forgot the quotation marks and attribution.
Liz J – “ignore the bum.”
Good advice. A cretin of Kinsella’s magnitude is simply not worth the time or effort.
I don’t agree with the call for Kinsella’s resignation – we need him in Iggy’s camp to keep up with the embarrassing verbiage. Self-destruction is cheaper than attack ads.
Chinese New year just finished. Bad timing Kinsella.I will say though, you have every right to say Chinese cuisene is cat puree or even Dog. Free speech is a wonderful thing in the Canada’s. Till you make the fatal PC flub. Then comes the HRC to cover you in mud.
No matter the truth or falsisity of the rub. If your white your just crude to be taken out to the social dumpster, as a poor potty mouthed dud. Right after you have been taken for all you own, as there own grub. With master disruption by the full tub of socialist suds.
Enjoy your moment in the light, before your fall to Earth.
JMO
Posted by: Chairman Kaga at January 29, 2009 2:28 PM >
“he’s probably produced better material to reveal his hypocrisy than a comment about Chinese food”
He has, this is just the latest, so why look a gift horse in the mouth?
Charles Adler rips Ignatieff a new one:
http://www.cjob.com/Blog/StationShared/Blog/OnTheEdge/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10020886
I couldn’t have said it better myself. Well done, Charles, bang on re: the “Great Abandoner.”
It gives insight into why Layton and Duceppe are so upset. Who does Ignatieff plan on sticking the knife to next?
The middle class taxpayer, of course.
I think I once had cat meat at a Chinese restaurant — the city will go unnamed. I took one bite and left the rest.
I’m with Kathy Shaidle, dp, and others who’d rather we be able to say things like Warren K said on his self-made video without making a big deal of it.
However, I’m not defending Mr. Kinsella. What’s sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. What does he think he is? Entitled?
Right on, Warwick. That’s pretty much the crux of the issue. Only CONSERVATIVES can be fired for saying stuff like that, not good, card-carrying Liberals.
The pompous professor just lectured the Prime Minister about the budget the other day, and “put the government on probation” in the most arrogant, condescending manner imaginable. I can *hardly wait* until Prince Michael becomes our first American PM. Don’t Liberals hate Americans? …well…Polls are improving drastically for the newly resurrected Liberals, especially in Quebec where the fickle voters are flocking back in droves. Good thing the Liberals are broke at the moment.
Now that Kinsella has shot himself in the foot, will Prince Michael put the Prince of Darkness “on probation” for this gaffe? I won’t be holding my breath.
Kinsella really can’t be very bright if he thought he could get away with the very same racism he targets in his political adversaries. What a maroon!
I once ate cougar ( yeah,yeah, no this one was the cat) at a wild game supper in High River. It was surprising good for a predator. tastes like pork.
so I dont know how those ingenious chinese sub it for chicken.
meow meow warren.
chow chow olivia.
What can you expect from the lead singer of a geezer punk band named “Shit For Brains”?
And what about the song “The Cat’s in the Kettle at the Peking Moon”? Everyone I know who loves the song also loves Chinese food.
Man, so much to comment on:
I’ve been married to a Chinese woman, with a large family, for over 20 years, so I think I have some understanding of Chinese attitudes and culture.
First, North American (what my wife calls “white”) culture is incredibly antiseptic and ostrich-like when it comes to food. We like to buy our meat on little white styrofoam trays with shrink wrap on it; Chinese people prefer to buy their meat as close to whole as possible. I’ve never been to a Chinese banquet (and I’ve been to many), where the fish course wasn’t an entire fish, head and tail included, or the lobster didn’t include the head. I remember a hot pot meal in Hong Kong where our shrimp were delivered on a skewer, with the legs still wriggling.
We want everything refrigerated or frozen until the moment it’s cooked; I’ve seen shops in Asia where there are literally dozens of whole roasted suckling pigs on long spits stacked up on the sidewalk, awaiting delivery. Of course, when we go there, my NA immune system is so delicate that if I accidentally drink local water or eat raw local produce, it’s either immediate Immodium, or imminent rush to the bathroom.
Have Chinese people ever eaten cat? I don’t doubt it; they eat sea cucumber, for heaven’s sake (imagine a garden slug on steroids..). Do Chinese restaurants in Canada, in this day and age, serve cat? Have to say “No”. You have to feed cats, then kill them, then skin them, and then – what? – how much meat can you get from a cat? Anyone who’s worked in the restaurant industry (as I have) knows that time is money, and who would spend all the time needed to do the above, when you can buy chickens for less than $1/lb?
Are Chinese people racist? In my experience: pretty much. They have some grudging respect for white people because of our technological prowess, although my wife despairs of the work ethic of our two daughters. (“Too white” she says.) Their feeling about other Asians? The Japanese are just soulless but excellent copycats, and everyone else is beneath them. Don’t get me started on their attitude towards blacks. But, let me say, I have my own bias towards white people. We have, through our scientific and political progress, pulled the world into a much better place, where infant mortality is dramatically diminished, many diseases have been virtually eradicated, and more people enjoy more freedom than at any time in the history of the world. The average family, living in their air-conditioned and centrally heated home, with TV and Internet, refrigerator and stove, microwave and CD player, lives in a luxury that – seriously, think about this, folks – Victoria did not enjoy at the turn of the last century.
And I do despair (as a blond), that the demographic trends point to a future where all of us have some darker hue of skin, and some version of black/brown hair. If I live long enough, I will mourn the loss of Nordic blondes, Irish redheads, olive skinned Italians, and icy Russian brunettes. It will just be boring.
Kevin- I’ve only been with a Chinese woman for 5 years, but your description is exactly as mine would be. Amazingly similar.
John Begley- Only cusswords. Had to get someone to translate your question.
I think the original issue up there is fairly minor, but it’s always fun to see the Wanker get hoist by his own petard.
The story in my mind is not about a racist comment from a hypocrite, they’re a dime a dozen. It’s about Mr. Human Rights wearing a Che ball cap! I’d love to hear him explain why he would go out in public, working for therefore representing the Liberal Party of Canada, wearing a Che Guevara ball cap. I mean does he crave empty headed teenagers flock around him or does he actually idolize Che Guevara.
Folks. go back and read Kinsella’s blog entry, the one Kate has saved. Kinsella isn’t offering cuisine commentary, he’s deliberately offering the comment in a derisive, smart ass manner.
The point isn’t whether what he said is unbelievably offensive but rather that THIS is the man Ignatief has chosen as his advisor! Kinsella has displayed incredibly poor judgment both in having made the statement and in posting it on the web.
Can’t wait to see what he’s got to say about O. and soulfood
Oh, if anybody here lives in Ottawa please make sure the Restaurant gets a printout of the archived screenshot…
I’d love to be a fly on the wall while the kitchen staff are blowing boogers into his Hot and Sour Soup.
The Punk Band, the Che hat, the legend-in-his-own-mind anti-Nazi heroics, the cumpulsive urge to be some Lib-bigshot’s adoring poodle, the love/hate thing for our leather-clad blogmistress, the obscenity-fixated tough-guy talk, the cluelessness as he hoists himself with his own proverbial petard…
He makes me sad.
Sun Tzu in the Art of War: “An incompetent bad adviser with the ear of your opponent is more precious than heaps of gold or diamonds. His position must be enhanced and kept secure, for through him victory is certain.”
Racist spewing hate…….off to the Kangaroo court for him.
Check out National Newswatch. David Akin reports that Alice Wong demanded that Iggy fire WK.
So WK goes after Alice Wong on his blog.
It would seem that WK is not a big fan of the shoe being on the other foot. Is actually a little disappointed in WK, he is quick to use his sharp pen to attack other for his perception of their comments rightly or wrongly, but seems to be quickly confused or hurt that his own attempt at wit, if we call it that, could be misinterpreted . Suck it up WK,
Sgt Lejaune wrote: “Sun Tzu in the Art of War: ‘An incompetent bad adviser with the ear of your opponent is more precious than heaps of gold or diamonds. His position must be enhanced and kept secure, for through him victory is certain.'”
In that case, the Liberals must NEVER fire Scott Reid!
His verbal spitting up is golden.
I regret to say that CHR or as I call it Human Wrongs Tribunal, could well be run by Robespierre, Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler or Khomeni. They were more brutal, but used the same methods.
As far as racism is concerned it is all mixed up. Tropical Jews call their enemies racists when in fact Palestinians are exactly the same race.
There is no bigger racism than between Blacks. Look at Rwanda!
If you complain about shauvinism of whites, try to immigrate or even work in Japan. I know of only very few Polish citizens who managed to receive permanent residency (not citizenship) in Japan. Fact that they were all young females and blue-eyed blonds seems coincidental. They had to change not only name and religion, but also friends.