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OK but where is the transcript? Do I go to YouTube? Do I go to BitChute? Do I go to the Russian embassy and see a man about a guy about a man in a back room, and then give him $50 and a fake passport, and then he lets me read it?
Great discussion. I think wokeness was inevitable in Canada, given its close cultural and physical proximity to the US, and the very high proportion of leftists. And while there are no descendents of black slaves in Canada, the Indigenous issue is pretty similar.
Also I must correct you, Poutine is a Quebecois food, not Canadian. It's pronounced the same as in English. "Putain" (as you pronounced it) means "whore"!
I love the way you talk about wokeness as a worthy topic of discussion just a day or two after a woke white leftist insisted to me that wokeness "doesn't really have a meaning; it just means something that upsets straight white people." https://avantgardepress.substack.com/p/parallel-communism/comment/53753112 (Things like this are often how you can tell someone is woke.)
But this was definitely a lively conversation, and I'm glad you added a transcript! Though I've been to Canada more times than I can count, it's more been to get deals on food or construction equipment than to tour around and make sense of cultural differences. Takeaways from your conversation that many Americans really should know:
* Conservative Americans may not like the bureaucracy because the bureaucracy is bad because conservative Americans didn't like bureaucracy:
"There is a self-fulfilling nature to big government or small government. In the US, smart people want to go make money in industry, not join the government bureaucracy. In Canada, so many people work for the government and the benefits are so good that it incentivizes better people to go work for the state, which means the state is then better able to provide services and the cycle continues."
* Canada is more "libertarian" on euthanasia - but it's really a question of realism vs idealism:
"Canada's very libertarian policy on medically assisted dying, or MAID... People opposing it are operating with an implicit theistic notion that you do not fully own your life, and to kill yourself is murder that should be prevented."
* Canada is higher trust than the US, but they really are also more homogeneous than the US by about 10%, at least according to Wikipedia: White Canadians are 69.8% with Non-Hispanic White Americans at 57.8%.
OK but where is the transcript? Do I go to YouTube? Do I go to BitChute? Do I go to the Russian embassy and see a man about a guy about a man in a back room, and then give him $50 and a fake passport, and then he lets me read it?
If you think you're going to bully us into posting the transcript, you're absolutely right. I've updated the post with the transcript. Enjoy !
Great discussion. I think wokeness was inevitable in Canada, given its close cultural and physical proximity to the US, and the very high proportion of leftists. And while there are no descendents of black slaves in Canada, the Indigenous issue is pretty similar.
Also I must correct you, Poutine is a Quebecois food, not Canadian. It's pronounced the same as in English. "Putain" (as you pronounced it) means "whore"!
I love the way you talk about wokeness as a worthy topic of discussion just a day or two after a woke white leftist insisted to me that wokeness "doesn't really have a meaning; it just means something that upsets straight white people." https://avantgardepress.substack.com/p/parallel-communism/comment/53753112 (Things like this are often how you can tell someone is woke.)
But this was definitely a lively conversation, and I'm glad you added a transcript! Though I've been to Canada more times than I can count, it's more been to get deals on food or construction equipment than to tour around and make sense of cultural differences. Takeaways from your conversation that many Americans really should know:
* Conservative Americans may not like the bureaucracy because the bureaucracy is bad because conservative Americans didn't like bureaucracy:
"There is a self-fulfilling nature to big government or small government. In the US, smart people want to go make money in industry, not join the government bureaucracy. In Canada, so many people work for the government and the benefits are so good that it incentivizes better people to go work for the state, which means the state is then better able to provide services and the cycle continues."
* Canada is more "libertarian" on euthanasia - but it's really a question of realism vs idealism:
"Canada's very libertarian policy on medically assisted dying, or MAID... People opposing it are operating with an implicit theistic notion that you do not fully own your life, and to kill yourself is murder that should be prevented."
* Canada is higher trust than the US, but they really are also more homogeneous than the US by about 10%, at least according to Wikipedia: White Canadians are 69.8% with Non-Hispanic White Americans at 57.8%.