Lets reverse this:
"Hey, black people. Stop outvoting the interests of white people and the old. Maybe just stop voting".
Would most of you consider that to be racist?? I think you would!
So why the double standard??!! It just goes to show the hypocrisy of the Left.
http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/agar-wynne-demonizes-old-white-voters-in-grasp-for-votes
"Hey, black people. Stop outvoting the interests of white people and the old. Maybe just stop voting".
Would most of you consider that to be racist?? I think you would!
So why the double standard??!! It just goes to show the hypocrisy of the Left.
http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/agar-wynne-demonizes-old-white-voters-in-grasp-for-votes
Wynne demonizes old, white voters in grasp for votes
Hey, old white people. Stop outvoting the interests of young people and minorities.
Maybe just stop voting.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne at Humber College on Friday said, “If you don’t vote, then somebody who looks like me is going to vote, some senior person, older than me, some white person.”
So let’s count the ways this is an outrageous comment, based on the metrics liberals usually use to attack conservatives.
First, it is ageist. To suggest that old and young people may not have the same party and policies in mind on election day is presumptuous at best.
Perhaps both demographics are concerned about employment and the ability to get by on what they earn. Both have lagged under 14 years of the Liberals.
Perhaps minorities are just as concerned about hydro rates and the disappearance of manufacturing jobs in Ontario as old white people.
Her assertion is that the votes of old, white people need to be challenged and negated.
It is of course also racist. Does she feel that old black people’s votes are fine? What about elderly Chinese voters? Are they OK?
Middle aged Aboriginals? What about them?
What sort of person goes to speak to a group and makes the blatant assumption — and assertion — that the group’s interests are automatically counter to and in danger from one other particular demographic?
The answer might be a person who is pandering to the lowest common denominator on race; the sort of thing liberals like to accuse conservatives of.
Ali Taghva, writing “as a person of colour,” on thepostmillennial.com argues, “Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has now begun to play full-scale identity politics. If you are white or old, then you automatically prescribe to have a set of beliefs, values, and pre-noted crimes. If you are young or not white, you are prescribed a different set. She does this with purpose, hoping to separate individuals along those lines with no care in regards to what that will do to our society.”
It is a shocking thing to hear from a government that insists that employers be colour-blind in their decisions, but perhaps not surprising from Wynne, as she said recently that we need to view government policy “through a race lens.”
What would happen if a similar derogatory comment about one demographic was made at a workplace?
Sunira Chaudhri, a labour lawyer at Levitt, LLP responds, “Saying that at a workplace would flood the Human Rights Tribunal with complaints.”
It is true that voting participation increases as we get older.
It is also true that visible minorities seem to vote at a smaller percentage than what some surveys call “other Canadians.”
But no responsible person would attempt to increase voter turnout in one group by demonizing another. It is shameful.
If Wynne walked the talk she constantly delivers about a caring, fair, inclusive society she would work to engage all groups in the value of exercising the amazing right we have to have our say in who leads us in this country.
Perhaps Wynne could make up for her insult by creating a “safe space” for older white people who were “triggered” by her comments.
After all, that’s the sort of language she would use if PC Leader Doug Ford had made such an odious assertion as hers
