38 Replies to “Diversity is our Strength”

    1. *
      Unless you’re fighting with folks whose religion mandates
      carrying a dagger with them at all times      . Then you’re just
      dead.

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  2. Why does BlogTO refer to their celebration as “descending” and not as simply a gathering of people who are different from many others?
    Do Christians descend into Christmas celebrations? Does Canada “descend” into Canada Day celebrations?

    In the first sentence…
    “Last night in Mississauga, a very large crowd of people descended onto a mall parking lot complete with fireworks to celebrate Diwali — but police there originally responded to it as a large fight.”

    2. marc, why would you descend to being offended by this microaggression?

      The phrasing is not unusual.

      1. I’m not offended.
        I’m asking if their bias is intentional. I could have been more clear in this.

        If I were to comment on this article at BlogTO and ask about these people “descending” upon Canada… what do you think their response would be?

        If I was pulled over by a police officer whose family heritage was from India, and I asked when they “descended” upon Canada, would there be a discussion of my hate crime?
        How much would this cost me?
        But the media simply reports the issue. Hopefully BlogTO is dependent upon tax credits from the #Libranos.

        Good they didn’t mention “descended like locusts” upon TO, “city of light” lol… that would have cost them.
        (Revelations 9.3 in some Bible versions)

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      I’m so old, I remember when a 500 person ‘fight’
      was known as a riot      … just smell the ‘professional’
      journalism.

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      1. Neo

        Riots are now mostly peaceful. Bouncy castles are violent.

        Why were the police called? Shouldn’t 911 have sent some social workers?

  3. Did anyone stay behind to clean up the mess? (That’s a rhetorical question)

    And Marc, your comment re: descending. It’s probably b/c the writer, like most people “these days”, are stupid and haven’t learned to properly communicate.

    1. Have you seen or smelled India? Pretty much says it all. Not a “racist” comment … just fact.

      1. My neighbour went on vacation to India (Yeah, I don’t get it either) several years ago, he claimed you can smell India at 20,000 feet.
        According to him it smelled like “burning garbage”.
        Had other horrific tales but I’ll leave that for another day.

        1. One look at what the people there do in the Ganges River tells the tale.
          Treating as an open sewer is an understatement.

        2. The moment the plane doors open upon landing you are instantly hit with a wave of nauseous stench that you have never experienced before. Yes, Indians traveled with with you on that plane but that is nothing in comparison. Just wait till the doors open. It is hard to describe how overwhelming the stench is. And it is ever present in every Indian, and everything Indian. It is like a mist of spicy wet shit. On the way back leave all your clothes that you are not wearing on your body in the hotel. You will never put them on again. Sewerage treatments plants in the hot humid summer and rotten cadavers smell better than India on a good day.

          1. LOL…you should write ads for travel brochures. Call it… “Bin Dare Done Dat with Colonialista”

            My neighbour, who I mentioned earlier, had a rental residence of some sort near the ocean and detailed the typical Indian’s morning routine in said ocean. Oh good lord!!!!
            Seriously, just take me home.

          2. I take it they did not mention on the rental brochure that ocean view includes a view of the world’s largest open air toilet?

          3. Oh yeah…that’s precisely what he mentioned. All in all he characterized the country as a weird amalgam of breathtaking beauty and outright filth.
            I have a lot of places I’d love to see…India isn’t one of them.

          4. Fully agree. I did not go there for fun. Will not go there in the future for any reason.

  4. Perfectly correct English.
    The phrase is that “people descended onto a mall parking lot..”
    It does not reference nor has anything to do with either the ethnicity or religion of the people involved.
    Simply that they arrived at the mall

    Common usage
    6. To arrive or attack in a sudden or overwhelming manner: “summer tourists descending on the seashore village.”

    1. I think that is correct. To me it suggests arriving en masse — large group all at once, and that characterized this situation..

  5. Here in civilized Western Judeo-Christian America … we sit on blankets and have picnic dinners while watching an organized fireworks display. Or at least we used to … before importing half of the bloody third world into our peaceful nation. The only flag we waved was the Stars and Stripes … under which banner we ALL gathered.

    1. The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn’t it? We’re reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.
      -Dean Koontz

    2. People said hello to one another, held the door open, said thank you and used manners. Treated others as they wished to be treated, you know the “Golden Rule”.

  7. Spent most of my young life living in Malton.

    Paul Coffey grew up in a house on Etude drive. Knew two of his sisters who were friends of my sisters. Paul was a youngster and I vaguely remember him.

  8. Looks like the ‘magic dirt’ does not work. So, the sectarian conflicts from the ‘origin’ country of our diversity are still there. To trigger open conflict, density of population. So, all the conflicts of the world will find outburst here.

  9. Doesn’t sound like big deal. Around here in the not-to-distant past, you’d expect fisticuffs in any of the local hotels during a weekend pissup. And that would be with 50 people, not 500.

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      “you’d expect fisticuffs in any of the local hotels with 50 people”

      Jamie… you didn’t say you lived in Dodge City… in the mid 1800s.

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  10. Import turd world become turd world. Civilized people should not be subjected to turd world savages celebrating their backward pagan rituals.

  13. About 1999 or 2000 Edmonton had their cultural festival. It’s a sort of united nations event with all the tribes showing off their culinary skills along with dancing singing etc.

    What nobody planned for is the inherent dislike (hatred) many of the tribes have for each other. About half way through the Pakistanis attacked the Hindu’s. The Trurks then hammered the Drewz and the Palestinians took on..well you get the picture. Everybody got into it except the Fwench who immediately claimed they were neutral when surrounded by pissed off Germans, Dutchmen, Spaniards, Brits, Austrians, Italians, Poles etc. Fists were flying and frying pans were ringing.

    The next day hardly a word was mentioned in the press about the multicultural love-in. Organizers made sure they took into consideration tribal rivalries for the following years. Peace be with you.

  14. The Diversity makes fine line infantry and ships crew. In the GI.Joe Universe, they are called ‘crew squares’, or ‘meat-bags’. If you feel you are incapable, soldier, of turning these fine recruits that King Charles found somewhere, into Sturm-Sausage, then take off your hat and go back to the mess. Think about what you have not done while you eat meat and drink beer. Avoid a war elephant mentality. Tomorrow is another day.

  15. Every Diwali I keep thinking of the old Liberal politician Herb Dhaliwal. I want to record a parody of “Holly Jolly Christmas”, using the pseudonym “Burl Apsack”, called “Have A Dhaliwal Diwali”.

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