#anti-Quebecois

[psychotrenny]

Self-Indigenisation is something that I brought up on an earlier post and I think it’s something more people should be aware of. It describes the way that Settler populations will claim Indigenous identities for themselves in order to justify their presence on the land and mistreatment of actually Indigenous populations. This can include using tenuous or even outright fabricated Lineal connections to indigenous peoples in order to claim membership to a group they have no social or cultural ties to. The most well-known example in North America are USAmericans who claim that their grandmother was a “Cherokee Princess” or something of the like in an attempt to buttress their identity as being in some way more impressive or “authentic”. Another example I’ve read about is White Quebecois (who at most might have a very distant indigenous ancestor, and sometimes not even then) with no connection to Indigenous communities claiming indigenous identity in order to launch lawsuits over land rights, sometimes even to the direct detriment of actually indigenous communities. Self-Indigenisation can also include claims that a particular settler population itself has some deep enough connection to the land that it can be considered indigenous. In South East Australia in the 1930s you had locally born Settlers explicitly assert themselves as the original inhabitants of the land and the actual indigenous peoples as nothing more than peripheral transients. The idea of US Appalachian settler populations being some sort of indigenous people has become a recurring one in scholarship and activism in the region and serves as way to assert the rightfulness of their ownership of the land even in a progressive and supposedly anti-colonial context. I haven’t personally read it myself but apparently the book Distorted Descent by Darryl Leroux does a pretty good job of exploring Self-Indigenisation in contemporary Canada.

While most of the literature on the subject I could find focused on North America*, this process if far from unique to that region. Indeed, Self-Indigenisation is one of the major rhetorical strategies used to justify the continued existence of Israel especially in more “progressive” spaces. Like hell even just being active on tumblr recently is going to expose you to numerous Zionist claiming that the Israelis are the true natives of Palestine and that the Palestinian Arabs are merely “squatters”. “Zionism means Landback” and other such nonsense. To be clear there is very much an indigenous Jewish population in Palestine, the “Old Yishuv” Shepardim, but the Settlers who established the state of Israel are very not much it not it no matter how much they try and construct such an identity (such as by suppressing traditionally spoken Jewish languages like Yiddish and replacing them with a reconstructed for of Hebrew) or repute the identity of indigenous Arabs. Essentially self-indigenisation is an especially heinous tool that Settler populations use to evict indigenous peoples on a spiritual level in order to maintain their physical displacement. Such rhetoric must be resisted and discredited as much as possible lest it’s able to have its intended effect

*I suppose it makes sense given that I was only looking at English-language literature and that region is home to the most populous of Anglo settler states

[pathogenflock]

Name: Rafael

Age: 19

Pronouns: he

Interests: Nathan Pandit

adults, minors, employed people, unemployed people, chronically online people, acutely offline people, ai artists, traditional artists, digital artists, bots, real people, aspiring authors, published authors, starving artists, well-fed artists, nsfw accounts, sfw accounts, people who think in black and white, people who acknowledge nuance, neurotypical people, neurodivergent people, blond people in romantic relationships with other blond people, polyamorous, monogamous, polygamous, men, women, everyone between and outside of that, anyone to whom that spectrum as a whole does not apply, people in healthy relationships (mutually toxic ones are fine as long as you let me watch ^-^), allocishet people, aroace trans gay people, pregnant people of any gender at their late 2nd- early 3rd trimester, French people (Quebecois people are on thin ice, but the rest of Canada also DNI), my 5th grade english teacher, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, pansexuals, polysexuals, omnisexuals, police without a warrant, police with a warrant, drunk driving antis and neutrals, woke moralists, asleep degenerates, people with blue or green eyes, people with cavities, small business owners, megacorp CEOs, microorganisms that cannot breach the blood-brain barrier, vivisection antis, fandom elders, fandom middle-aged, fandom youths, people who dont read DNIs if theyre "too long," people with long DNIs cus im not reading that shit, people who send death threats, discord e-daters (i hope you break up), selfship haters bc why do you hate fun, medical malpractice lawyers, my ex-wife Miranda and her stupid fucking lawyer you can keep the house but you'll never have my dignity you stupid assholes 🖕🖕🖕🖕, my beloved son Eduardo except on weekends, flat earthers, globe earthers, earth "neutrals," people who hate on online relationships or think they dont "count," pro shippers, pro kayakers, and pro skaters, people who donate to ao3 (this one's for real), monolinguals, trilinguals, selfshippers lmaoo thats so cringe sorry, transphobes (homophobes are fine), anyone located within 50 kilometers of -57.40378, 118.63882, twinks, bears (person not the animal), activists, staticists, gambling addicts but if you send me $50 i may or may not take you off this list, autism moms, autism dads, autism parents who lost it all in the divorce (now demoted to neurotypical parent), autism not the step dads but the dads that stepped up, people who think women can get pregnant (only men do that), people who cant solve my riddles three, bears (the animal), The Bear (the show), people with "ironic" dni lists who are trying way too hard to be funny, debt collectors, toothpaste flag users, toothbrush flag users, "we live in a simulation" dumbasses, anyone whose high school mascot was that shitty bulldog png (you know the one), furries (scalies are fine). may add more

People with the first name "Nathan" and the last name "Pandit."

[historia-vitae-magistras]

Mandatory Latina ask: do Matt feel American as in part of one of the Americas? Part of the New World? Mexico and Cuba would try and explain they are all American and Alfred feels The New World™ on a Manifest Destiny kind of philosophy but do Matt feels some kindship with his friend Cuba and Caribbean commonwealth brothers and Latinos and former or current French colonies nations?

This is a fascinating question because it's a D.) all of the above. Question if this was multiple choice.

I think, in the year of our lord 2023, he would probably call himself a North American and think of himself as a part of the New World, but usually, that definition for Canadians silently includes some of the South Pacific, so that doesn't make a whole lot of goddamn sense either. North Americans in a different way than the Americans but not as much the Pan-American sense of America. And that's very new. There's a small spurt of French Canadians considering themselves Latin Americans in the early 19th century with our revolt against the British and nationalism that corresponded with some participation of individuals in the wars of independence and other conflicts in South America. Matt had a moment before anglophone domination took over that he might have seen a future in that sort of Pan-American definition of American, but it was done by the 1830s.

After that, it was the British Empire. He defines himself by participating in that imperial system, not the French and not a sense of being North American until after WW1. And even then, it took until NAFTA in the early 90s for an actual large-scale cultural flow with the mainland. Cuba and the Caribbean are a little different because the trade relationship was there. Halifax was the main port for centuries, but it's still... it's an odd relationship. Suppose I look at the British Empire in Africa. In that case, it's easy to see how that would work because the Canadians played a small but very bluntly colonialist role in multiple conflicts. With the Caribbean, there's some exchange of people and trade. However, it's from an early enough date that Canada is still kind of too shitty and underdeveloped to have an oppressive relationship from the very get-go. Still, there is a lot of fuckery in there. I will say I think it's a bit easier than it might otherwise be as Black Canadians were politically organized in the late 19th and early 20th century, and that, amongst other forces, largely blunted our own want for a mini-empire in our sphere the way NZ and Australia did with island ports in their own neighbourhood. There's an alternate universe where Canada fought the Falklands War. So I think Matt gets along with them, but I'm not sure there's a sense of kinship so much as comradery in an 'oh fuck what'd the limeys/yanks/frogs/Spaniards/Portuguese do this time.'

Born a francophone, he has... it's a weird relationship he's got with the rest of the Francophonie. I don't think he feels a sense of kinship at all. Friendly, sure, increasingly interested in them, yes. But French Canadians, particularly the Quebecois, are pretty proud and tend to think of themselves as entirely different from France or Belgium. And despite what the Quebecois nationalists would say in the 1970s, we really cannot compare our history with, say, Algeria's or Vietnam's. And Matt is really aware of that. He was way more privileged under Arthur than practically anyone was under Francois.

He's not unique by any means. There's been middling anti-social sorts in every empire since the Akkadians, but he's just kinda everywhere and nowhere. He and Cuba have definitely had a relationship. Like, I don't believe it, but there's a reason there's a conspiracy that Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro's son and not Pierre's lmao. If nothing else, Cucan has had some good sex. I think he gets along with Maria (my friend's Mexico) really well too. It doesn't help that he's not the most extroverted type either. He's such a weirdo I'm so sorry to whoever has to interact with him or us as a country lmao.

[racefortheironthrone]

What do you mean Quicksilver “falls between two stools” ?

The idiom "falling between two stools" means to try to do or be two things at the same time, and thus fail at both.

I think a big part of Quicksilver's problem as a character is that Marvel has never really been sure where to put him: he was introduced as an X-Men anti-villain, but left the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants after seven issues. He then becomes an Avenger as part of Captain America's "Kooky Quartet" and there for a couple years - but then goes back to the Brotherhood for a bit, then goes back to the Avengers, then kind of falls into the Fantastic Four and Inhumans' orbit when he marries Crystal the Inhuman princess.

Unfortunately for Pietro, his wife turned out to be a drama-seeking narcissist who deals with boredom by having affairs, and his in-laws were a bunch of racists - which causes him to become an Avengers villain under mind control.

Then Marvel went with the retcon that Wanda and Pietro were Magneto's kids - which I rather like as a progression and complication of their tortured relationship since the Brotherhood days - except that Marvel kept changing its mind about it and started retconning and re-retconning Quicksilver's backstory, which mired him in an endless loop of bad, repetitive storytelling from 1979 through to 2014. While the core group of Magneto, Pietro, and Wanda is a solid vehicle for soap opera drama, there are only so many permutations that you can do, and it was surrounded by an endless parade of Mount Wundagore, the High Evolutionary, and "the Whizzer" bullshit that no one likes or cares about, except for Bova the bovine midwife - Bova is cool.

Then Marvel shifted Pietro over to the X-books by having him become a founding member of the government X-Factor team in 1991 - which was the first time that he'd been a sustained part of the X-Men's world since 1965 - and he stuck around even after Peter David's run ended. However, in part because Pietro is, to be charitable, an aloof and anti-social dick (incidentally, why is it that speedsters in the Marvel universe are all assholes with anger issues whereas speedsters in the D.C universe are usually kindly goofballs?), his mutant identity was never really developed beyond his connection to Magneto until the Decimation when he went fully crazy and did some really unforgivable stuff to his daughter under the influence of Terrigen.

It also didn't help that in the interim between leaving the Brotherhood and joining X-Factor, the X-books got another arrogant hot-tempered speedster with a co-dependent relationship with his twin sister - except that Northstar is much faster and more powerful than Pietro, and has a way more interesting character arc as the first openly gay Marvel superhero, dealing with issues like coming out of the closet, AIDS, and gay marriage as well as more standard comic book fare like Quebecois separatist terrorism, whether his use of mutant powers during the Olympics constitutes cheating, and whether he has Ljósálfar heritage.

Sadly, I think Northstar ate Quicksilver's lunch while Marvel couldn't make up its mind where to put Pietro.

[forcebookish]

thank you for tagging me, @ariadnekurosaki!!!

1 . How did you get into writing fanfiction?

uhh, when i was twelve i wrote horrendously bad self-insert inuyasha (and bleach?) fanfic on a now-defunct website that doesn't exist anymore lol since then i've bopped in and out of fandoms under different usernames across many platforms. often, i'll lose the muse in 2-3 year chunks, but get sucked back in for new fandoms.

except bleach. i always come back to bleach 😩

2. How many fandoms have you written in?

oh god, if we count dc, marvel, k-pop, and thai dramas (+rpf) as all their own respective fandoms (ie. not distinguishing between arrow, the flash, young justice, etc.), it's twelve - if we don't, it's almost thirty. a lot of my exo fanfics only reference other groups/solo artists, so i think that's too generous. the point is, it's a lot lol

3. How many years have you been writing fanfiction?

on and off since i was twelve (although when i was five i wrote a picture book about the disney princesses hanging out with me), but probably a total of 8 years actually active?

4. Do you read or write more fanfiction?

write more. i rarely read fanfiction unfortunately D:

5. What is one way you’ve improved as a writer?

i'm less verbose and my voice is cleaner.

6. What’s the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

quebecois sacres.

7. What’s your favorite type of comment to receive on your work?

when i make someone cry 😈 nah i really love detailed ones with quotations, ones that pinpoint exactly what parts hit them or meant the most to them. but tbh i love short keymashes too!

8. What’s the most fringe trope/topic you write about?

hmmm🤔 i don't think i write anything that out there... yet. i guess i like to write about psychic connections and niche super powers.

9. What is the hardest type of story for you to write?

ones with a lot of worldbuilding. and porn lol

10. What is the easiest type?

ones with a lot dialogue and character introspection.

11. Where do you do your writing? What platform? When?

my office, the tv room, my bed, sometimes outside. i used to write in coffee shops, at the library, work (especially when i worked at the library lol) before the pandemic and i became a hermit. in gdocs, because i write on my pc, chromebook, and phone. all hours.

12. What is something you’ve been too nervous/intimidated to write, but would love to write one day?

there's this one prompt from the bleach kink meme that i've been thinking about for ten years that has the potential to be really gross or really hot. or both. i might write it for the >5k au event in august idk

13. What made you choose your username?

lapmonster: my twitter username for a while before i decided to start posting on ao3 so i made my ao3 to match; it's a pun on rap monster. kairumption: when i started writing exo fic this was my livejournal url; another pun, it's kai + kyrumption (from angel). it's also where my nickname rum comes from. farewellswords: my twitter username changed from lapmonster in 2019 or 2020 because bts got too popular and army were accusing me of being a namjoon anti lmao; it's a chapter title from bleach.

probably should have kept kairumption as all of them, but i like farewellswords 🤷‍♀️ tbh it would have been my url here if an inactive acc didn't already have it. because, i mean, come on.

COME ON

okaaaay let's tag: @pomslices @retiredficwriter @komari-maxx @ellasaru12 @athousandbyeol @bytheforcebook and anyone else who wants to participate! :D sorry if i forgot you!

[txttletale]

what do you mean theyre like the quebecois of europe. i dont disagree im just wondering how you gain knowledge of how annoying quebec people are without speaking french

i've been Online and Political enough to know that quebecois have the exact same annoying habit of appropriating language used by victims of imperialism in the global south to describe situations of national repression that are frankly totally incomparable.

(and to be clear, because i'm sure there's people waiting to read all this in the worst faith possible. the ethnic policies of the USSR were some of its greatest failures and represented a gigantic squandering of revolutionary progress. every mass ethnic deportation was a morally inexcusable tragedy and i think all marxist-leninists should take them as an important lesson about the power of reactionary ideology to linger even during periods of economic transformation.

but 1. the language of colonialism does not and has not ever described Any of these events, 2. baltic motherfuckers will then use this victimization narrative to celebrate anti-soviet partisans who were like, open nazi collaborators, and 3. unsurprisingly, all of the most brutal and unforgivable ethnic repression under the USSR took place in central, east, and west asia, not in fucking lithuania.)

[thessalian]

Trivia Break: Dr Morgentaler

So, with the anti-choice bullshit in the US and Italy's decision to allow anti-choice protesters to actually enter abortion clinics, I would like to introduce you all to Dr Henry Morgentaler. If you're Montrealais, or really into very obscure quasi-ska alt-rock, you'll know the name from the band Me Mom & Morgentaler. Here's why.

Dr Henry Morgentaler was born in Poland 101 years ago. He was Jewish. He ended up in Dachau. He survived, and emigrated to Canada - Montreal specifically. He entered medical practice. He was one of the first doctors in Canada to perform vasectomies, IUD insertions, and provide birth control pills to unmarried women. In 1955. In Montreal, Quebec. Now, please keep in mind that Quebec was really, reeeeeeally Catholic until the 1960s, and the decrease in the sheer volume of Catholicism in Quebec was pretty slow. So here's this guy who went to a hugely Catholic province, went into family planning, and did a whole bunch of stuff that the Catholic Church hates. Buuuuut I guess anyone who survived Dachau had no fucks to give.

In 1967, he spoke before the Health and Welfare Committee stating that women should be able to have safe, legal abortions. This made news - I mean, very Catholic province, abortion is so very illegal, and there's this family planning guy saying this. And to his surprise, he gets a lot of women calling him, visiting his clinic ... all wanting - needing, let's be fair - abortions. And he had to tell them no. He tried referring them, but the only doctors he could refer them to "were no longer available". (I refuse to look too hard into what that means.)

And then, in 1968, he said "Fuck a bunch of this", gave up his family practice, and opened a private clinic that performed abortions as well as contraception etc. Again - survived Dachau. Really had zero fucks to give about the threat of Canadian prison.

Thing is, he went to court three times over this in the early 70s. At all three trials, his defense was that he had to do this to safeguard the life and health of these women who came to him, because there was no safe recourse for them and they'd end up harming themselves or worse by either trying to terminate their pregnancy themselves or going to some back-alley butcher in desperation.

On the strength of the testimonials of the women who'd gone to his clinic, the jury of the first trial acquitted him. Jury nullification - they refused to uphold a law they felt was unjust. Unfortunately, the judge overturned this acquittal, basically on the argument of, "The danger to the woman wasn't immediate and she could have just had the baby" and Morgentaler was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

The year he started serving his sentence, Prime Minister Trudeau (the old one, not the current one) changed the law so that judges weren't allowed to just overturn acquittals - which is actually now known as the Morgentaler Amendment in the Criminal Code.

His second trial happened while he was still in jail. The jury acquitted him in another act of jury nullification, and the judge couldn't just overturn the acquittal. The third one happened when he was in the hospital, after having suffered a heart attack in prison. Once again, jury nullification - acquitted.

1976: The Parti Quebecois, the provincial government at the time, went, "Okay, if juries will never convict them, this is pointless" and got all the remaining charges dropped. Later that year, abortion was legalised in Quebec.

So then he started doing this in other provinces. And the same thing happened - police tried to shut him down, tried him for illegal abortion, jury nullification, acquittal. This time, the judge turned it down again; couldn't turn it into a conviction, but ordered a new trial. "Fine", said Morgentaler. "Let's flag up that this anti-abortion law violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms because it interferes with a woman's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". So unlike Roe vs Wade, it focused on human rights rather than just civil rights.

He won, more or less. There were to be no criminal restrictions on the provision of abortions - it was left to medical law. So they can't just make abortions illegal. Restrict? Yes - some provinces restricted access to abortions by only allowing clinics that perform them to be in hospitals, rather than private clinics. And even the provinces that had those restrictions had to drop them in the 90s.

I mean, obviously Morgentaler got some shit. Death threats, bombings, assaults. Again, I guess given what he'd been through, that didn't seem like that big a deal. Imagine surviving that, and then spending your entire life fighting for a woman's right to choose, and have that choice carried out in safety, at the expense of the safety and comfort you fought so hard for.

I don't know if it'd be possible today, what Morgentaler did. He died on 29th May 2013, at age 90. I figure he must have turned in his grave like an express-wagon axle when Roe vs Wade got overturned. But ... here's this guy who came out of hell, moved to the most Catholic province in Canada, and started the kind of pro-choice movement that ended with real change.

And most of all, it started when jury boxes full of people literally said, "We know it's against the law, but given it's a stupid law, we've elected to ignore it".

So here's to Dr Morgentaler, and to the fact that sometimes we can change things. I know everything's stacked so hard against us right now, but ... we do what we can, as hard as we can.

[liskantope]

I had one of those Moments today while socializing with a small group of friends I've made among faculty at my university (pretty much the only friends I've made since moving here, actually), who are a very SJ-ideology-right-down-the-line bunch as is most often the case in academia (they're all in the humanities, which doesn't help). The two most aggressively SJ of them, who frequently make references to how racist restrictive immigration policies are and how racist everything is in general, are a couple from Canada. Today they were ranting about the history of demographic issues in Quebec. I know next to nothing about this, but I understand from them that many decades ago the French spoken in Quebec was in danger of being supplanted by English and so measures were taken to get more immigration from French-speaking countries, then when that turned out to include a bunch of African or otherwise non-white countries the government went, "Wait, no, we didn't mean those kinds of people" and managed to turn this into a large influx of French people, mainly from Paris, instead. But the problem with that is that Parisians are used to paying tons of rent (because, well, Paris) and so were willing to live at a much higher cost than was the standard in Quebec, eventually raising rent for everyone there. Those two friends were vehemently denouncing this trend and the harm it did to the Quebecois who were already there; at one point one of them said that she "hated" the Parisians in Quebec for this.

And I was sitting there thinking, "Isn't this, in economic terms, just a variation on one of the main basic cases American conservatives make against immigration? Which I know according to you just entirely boils down to hating darker-skinned people, but if you listen to the genuine concerns some of the anti-immigration folks have, it's about how people from a lot of less privileged countries are used to lower wages so they'll accept a bunch of menial jobs for lower wages than Americans are willing to get for those jobs, and then the immigrants will cause wages to go down for everyone. In this case, instead of talking about how little people are willing to be paid, it's about how much people are willing to pay, but your 'hating' Parisian immigrants for what they're doing to the economy seems to be a very similar principle, no?"

And of course, as almost always, I kept my thoughts to myself, because I value not injecting tension between myself and some of the very few true friends I have in this geographic region.

[blessyouhawkeye]

zoreaux changing his name because zava told him to was an anti-quebecois hate crime. i hope they do it more.

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

The Diary of Abigail Williams, One of Salem’s Possessed

I draw my reverend uncle eating live eels raw eggs their yellow bits floating in wine barrels saved from the fire that burnt his mother alive in the year of 1,666 night terrors the closet filled with Satan wearing sequinned jumpsuits wanting to impregnate me according to that one X-Files episode but I’ll not be licked by tongues of devils

I slither bellyground like a holy sister a bride of Christ locked in a cell made of snakeskin embryonic sacks my mother writes plaintiff letters: I’ll save you I’ll save you I’ll save you mothers drink fountain water causing madness we dance with snakes in cold mountain streams dreaming of women in yellow Sitting on chests on necks of church choir rivals wearing ochre dresses shawls scarves snaking up arms to hide the impurity of elbows I speak tongues to camp counsellors in the Quebecois accent that slithered out the woman who wasn’t my mother but she caretook me women speaking in tongues are madly blessed Blessedly mad or just cursed God touched you said the reverend before exorcising language and shakes with holy spring water blessed snake oil we sing Jesus loves me this I know and dance around a bonfire filled with women mothers who sat on chests in the dark their mouths snake fangs used to show we are God’s elect I am asked: have you been bitten Everyone is bitten at least once, how else will we know if we’ve been saved

by S. Patterson, in Anti-Heroine Chic May 2021 (x)

[velvetvexations]

You're mostly right, but just a couple of corrections!

I think he would have been an unpleasant person to hang out with during much of his life

He certainly would have been unpleasant for any of us who are visibly non-white and/or queer, but he was considered good company - even the life of the party by the standards of stodgy early 20th century white people:

After dinner the family again demanded that [I] amuse them with some of [my] theatrical impersonations—and believe us, you'd never know the old man in some of the things they made [me] put on! In my acting days I went in for the heavy villainous stuff; but the Hampsteaders seem partial to the Julian Eltinge stuff, and could not be satisfied till they had [me] laced into a hoop-skirt outfit with bonnet and parasol to match! Though it was hard to think of dialogue for such a makeup, they seemed satisfied with my improvisations; and compensated by prolonged applause for the injury inflicted upon my patriarchal dignity.

H. P. Lovecraft to the Gallomo, 31 Aug 1921, Miscellaneous Letters 115

First of all, it was his parents who named the cat. He just inherited it.

We don't know who exactly named the cat.

He was terrified of such things as math, air conditioning, and the welsh.

This is an exaggeration. He was an amature astronomer among many other sciences, he was certainly not afraid of math. Cool Air starts with the narrator talking about being scared of air conditioning, but that was because of the events of the story and there's no reason to assume Lovecraft shared that fear. Finally, Lovecraft never expressed distaste for the Welsh, and him having written Shadows Over Innsmouth after discovering Welsh ancestry is a myth.

Now, he did go pretty far with it. In an era of rampant racism, even his peers, some of them racists themselves, told him to tone down the racism.

This is also largely a myth. He had friends who were in perfect agreement and others who weren't, and the ones who weren't he deliberately hid his racism from, such as Samuel Loveman, a close Jewish friend who had no idea Lovecraft was anti-Semitic until after he died, and felt personally betrayed by it. Some disagreed with what he shared of his racism but they were on the far liberal end of the scale. At most some racist friends who agreed with him thought he was too preoccupied with it.

He started as an outright white supremacist, and slowly changed, becoming more of a classist and elitist and supporting integration and assimilation to Anglo culture. He was an anglophile who loved the English and also aristocracy. He then changed even more, and supported a sort of 'nationalism' involving ethnicities keeping and maintaining their own culture, Quebecois and First Nations people being explicitly noted and spoken well of in his travelogues of Canada.

This is true, but it's worth noting that his opinion of Black people specifically stayed entirely the same until his death.

Lovecraft wrote down all the ideas that came to him to do something with later and there are some real bangers in there

[jafanadis]

Full Name: Brandon Caleb Firkins

Nickname: Ares, Baal, Belial, Crystal Blue, Satan, Pierogi

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Orientation: Bi

Height: 6’1

Species: Human

Nationality: Canadian (British, Quebecois, Ukrainian)

Occupation: Mercenary

Alliance: The Jade Owls

Alignment: Anti-Hero

Theme Song: Give Me One Reason by Tracy Chapman

Character Song: Mechanical Resonance from Sonic Adventure

Voice Claim: Ares from The Gods’ School (Griffin Puatu)

About

Brandon is an independent Mercenary who works for Lord Kwadou of The Akryan Brotherhood. Thrown into things beyond his control, he was captured by Kwadou's retinue and quickly won his captor over by single handedly defeating a Blue Narl with only his newly discovered Umbrakinesis. Now conscripted to serve the Akryan lord, Brandon travels throughout Otacaia with Kwadou performing tasks on behalf of the Akryan Brotherhood and his own accord.

Personality

Brandon is a man of many talents who is willing to do whatever it takes to maintain his image and standing in life. He is a hard-working, intelligent, strategic, adaptable, and savvy man. However, he is an abusive bully who also maintains his standing through emotion, verbal, and physical threats. He can be arrogant, aggressive, overly ambitious, selfish, and prideful. He has no issues using whatever underhanded methods at his disposal to get what he wants, if it means using brute force or toying with someone's feelings so be it. Brandon is also narcissistic taking great care of his physical appearance, he knows he is a handsome man and likes to use that as one of his tools and wishes to keep looking young and attractive as long as possible. He is quite passionate about certain things that interest him, and he can be quite hedonistic and sensual to any man or woman, Human or Otacaian, who catches his fancy. Brandon is a man who hates failure, it was ingrained into his head never to fail at anything otherwise you are seen as weak and incompetent. He always feels the need to come out on top because that is how he was raised and how he is as a person. If there’s one thing that Brandon hates more than losing, its people pitying him and seeing him as weak. He does not tolerate anyone babying him or treating him like a child, he will hold a deep grudge for anyone who does so.

Miscellaneous

He speaks with a British Columbian accent, specifically from the Vancouver area.

He has the power of Umbrakinesis, which is the opposite of Lumokinesis. Users of this fearsome power can manipulate, create, and shape darkness and shadows, some users can cloud their environment in darkness, solidify darkness, create shadow constructs, absorb light, use shadow camouflage, and create balls of shadow in their hands as weapons. Brandon acquired this power late in life.

He is proud of his partial Ukrainian heritage and believes his birth as Canadian was misplaced in a way. He enjoys Ukrainian culture and food.

He is of English, Quebecois, and Ukrainian ancestry, with some Italian, Russian, Irish, and German.

He was the captain of several sports teams when he was younger and worked as a personal trainer.

Has a birthmark on his upper right hip.

Wants to be in the military as a general or as a police chief on a police force.

Hates facial hair, always shaves his face. Would never be caught dead with a beard or moustache.

He can play the saxophone.

Used his younger cousin Russell as a punching bag when they were younger, once he assaulted Russell with a baseball bat.

He was quite sadistic and ableist as a child but grew out of it when he became older and developed a conscious.

He despises his cousin Russell because his mother, Arianna, had a secret affair with his father, Benjamin after the death of Russell’s father and Benjamin’s brother, Mitchell. Brandon has deep resentment toward Russell and his mother towards this.

Otacaia, and all of its characters, species, races, information, et al © Jafan Adis, 2022-2024, All Rights Reserved.

[psych---ologically-deranged]

psych 2x12 the old & the restless

anupam nigam & tim meltreger according

Alternate titles: If you lived here you'd be dead by now TM: It was too long. My first one was called If You're So Smart Then Why Are You Dead? AKA Little Man Hate! Other alternates for this one were Age Against The Machine & Old Case

Brian Doyle Murray TM: Anu is a human IMDB

"We had to make him an anti-henry & we see some of where adult Shawn's philosophy comes from in life. You've got to live by the seat of your pants

(their voices sound too similar for me) I was trying to be professional on set but I was like "I'm sorry can I please get a photo"

smash cut right into the case

AN: Do you write the entire pepisode in a room with a single 40 watt lightbulb hanging from the ceiling?

TM: The writer's room is the heart of our job here on psych, it's the nerve centre where we sit around on couches & beat out stories until they make sense

Shawn being a doula again

Psychfact: they have a routine where they hide Gus in a sack & it never fails

TM is the internet guy. Mr Tim, if you are reading this *kisses you*

TM: I wanted to talk about Gus & Shawn's shirt, both wearing purple, very complimentary (they wear matching clothes. Honestly I wouldn't doubt it in canon.) AN: Henry's just dressing a little loud tonight. "Hey there's that pink safari shirt"

*gus sleeping on henry's shoulder* *henry not stopping him*

set design: Glorious Pines Centre for Assisted Living AN: It's a pretty big plot point that it can't be for assisted living

TM: I have another question. Is it cool to do the rest of this commentary pants-off? AN: Do what makes you feel comfortable TM: *microphone sounds* AN: No I can't help you

Describes the guitar is shimmering TM: What's the name of the guitarist? AN: That would be me! TM: Him! Did you have your pants on for that recording? (I think I got the ppl wrong. Their voices sound very similar. & I'm deaf) AN: Absolutely not!

Never calls him grandpa after that. Throw in a good algonquian moshum

"our" grampy. Maybe he's only his grandfather in the eyes of the law, not as in adoption but as in marriage

"When your episode gets shot, the psych people will fly YOU up to watch the episode

*five minute walk to the studio if you're in LA* *airplane if it's in BC*

I call my paternal grandfather grandpapa. he was quebecois. Opa! That's what I SHOULD be calling my maternal grampa but he was the youngest of like 13 & his older siblings went to school during or a bit after wwii so they got beat for speaking german.

gus does a GREAT agitated

Shawn & Henry matching colours

*Gus knowing random facts*

This is like when they sent Shawn to the mental hospital

REAL retirement community. ily kelly kulchak "I get that it's an old folks home, but do they have to look old?"

Henry "I'm going to teach you a lesson, even tho normally I'd storm out of here & leave you in the lurch" I mean they did trick him into coming here

Love a good old naming scheme

Love all the gus medical terms they had to do research/lh for

"I'm pretty sure when Chris Henze emailed me I walked out of my office into the writer's office & yelled I've got booger!"

Henry: Life lesson 20. People lie & they leave without warning. *looking at Shawn* Shawn: *rolls his eyes & shoulders in the biggest natural sigh ever*

idk anything abt marathon running

AN & TM used to run marathon in high school

BG: You can't get Indian Blood by working in a casino Me: That's what fist fights are for Fun fact, JRr is actually half mexican, & a ton of mexican population is mestizo (sort of like the Metis of canada, which I am) so by extension you could say he does have "indian blood" if you really wanted

Yeah, as an fnmi person it does strike me as weird that they'd say indian not native american but like this was 2007 & anupam is India Indian too lol

Some ppl say "asian indian" & "indian" not "Indian" & "american indian" really???? At that point just say native american bro. I guess "native american" implies USA when indian is used to mean anyone from the americas. Fine. (But then a lot of the time ppl also forget greenland still. Greenland is mostly inhabited by the inuit, but is owned by iceland, a european nordic/scandinavian country)

AN: & what's the name of your band, Tim? TM: *Gasp* the friendly indians! It's systemic! AN: & when you say Indians you mean people like me bc we're all very friendly TM: Absolutely. & You are very friendly. .. Although our story does have a very long "why we're called friendly indians" story that has something to do with political correctness. In some ways it's ironic but it doesn't bear talking about here.

yk what I'm happy this is finally mentioned. It's been smth around my head for a while, I just haven't cared to say it.

AN: I thought this was a neat clue!

Jason Enzler? idk. Great shot tho.

I forgot my man wasn't wearing any pants

AN had to stand in for that actress when she got held up in makeup (you need someone of comparable skin tone & height) "If there's something I don't like it's having to read my work aloud in front of other people, so I was standing there shaking, having to read my script"

OFFICE MOUSTACHE COMPETITION? "That's it, I'm putting my pants back on!"

I love henry's bathing suit

"My s-- grandson Shawn & his--... Gus"

"The extra we asked to [fall in the water] was PETRIFIED of the water!"

Yeah how DOES juliet know that if she went to cop school in miami?

yeah I DEF see the difference between seasons 1 & 2

*right after Chelsea puts her leg up on shawn while tango dancing* "She had hip problems"

DH is a skilled dancer & they put him on the dance floor standing STILL

Shawn: Where did my dad learn to tango? Me: where did YOU learn to tango?

... "for anyone listening" like me "what would you the writer do on the set?" I've never been to the set?

HS: I'm your father, do not call me dude Me to my mom: dude

tim *spot pitching jokes to the actors*

Yeah nursing home vs retiring home. I've been to low-care old folks homes, basically an apartment complex where you can cook your own meals & stuff but they still have a dining room (my 103y/o great great uncle lived there), mid-care where you have tons of freedom but it is still a care facility, & high-care dementia homes where people need two lots of care.

*all in one location* *network loves it*

DH& JRr: dancing for several minutes DH, rhythmically: When Is Ensler Going To Say Cut

They were supposed to take JJ the kid to prison for this shit but they couldn't. There was supposed to be lassiter graffiti on the walls

I like it when they say "I wouldn't change a thing"

oh he hurt himself on his mountain bike This may have been the first ep since it healed

"What is the collarbone called?" "The Collar Bone" "You're a medical guy!" "The clavicle!" "Ok now you need to name six bones to redeem yourself!"

Traditional Breakdown

"I dreamt I went to heaven & met god & he sneezed!"

Bang! *watching the stunt man on the styrofoam rock* my man has a reputation for killing people & he has only killed one person in his five episodes

Curtis *tickling her bc he can't find the pills*

"jervis babey" TM: They exit Jason E: they limb over the railing. Henry doesn't get a fist bump. Homage to the shining.

Show me don't tell me I struggle with that so much but you DO need a balance

Ooh Jason E, love this shot.

[spoondrifts]

essay on anti-theism and protestant american culture i wrote for an intro to religion class last semester

All across the world, religions of all kinds are bound up in complex webs of the cultures they permeate, from genuine theocratic governments to legally secular Western democracies. Particularly in the United States, the relationship between Protestant Christianity and American culture has remained closely intertwined since the country’s founding, despite the legal separation of church and state outlined in the First Amendment. In America, Christian apostasy is unique in that it rejects the notion that one can remain culturally Christian despite embracing atheism or anti-theism, due to a pervasive but subtle idea within Christian ideology that presents religious identity as modular. As a result of this, ex-Christian anti-theism is functionally Protestant—professedly secular but dogmatically religious.

In places such as Iran, Afghanistan, and Mauritania, the relationship between culture and religion is explicit: their governments are shaped by Islamic law, and Islamic principles dominate every aspect of life. However, in secular countries, the connection is far more implicit. In Turkey, for instance, while technically a secular nation, Islam is the dominant religion and its influence can be seen everywhere from school curriculums to public architecture. In Japan, nearly eighty percent of the population participates in Shintoism or Buddhism in some way as reported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, despite being majority nonreligious. While these statistics are due to the Japanese peoples’ unique conceptions of spirituality, which are not analogous to any Western experience of religion, they still represent an example of how culture and religion are not inextricable, as shown by Japanese cultural customs such as bowing to convey respect, visiting shrines on special occasions, and mindfulness of the natural world, which also have deep religious significance.

In his book Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways, Olivier Roy explains that dominant religions are “powerful machines for manufacturing culture.. even if societies become secularized, they still bear the cultural imprint of the founding religion.” This principle rings true for the United States as well. Although America was not founded explicitly on Protestant Christian principles, the Protestant majority has retained an incredibly strong influence on the resultant culture over the last several hundred years. The primary difference between Christianity and other belief systems across the world is that modern Christianity markets itself as a modular religion—something that you can swap in and out without altering anything else about yourself. The idea is that you can still be Filipino, or Irish, or Nigerian, you’re just also Christian.

The issue with this framework, beyond its colonialist implications, is that religion isn’t plug-and-go. All religions carry cultural baggage, regardless of how universal their doctrines are. The Christian mindset that Christianity can simply be plugged into the “religion” slot and leave the culture unaltered produces the belief that Christianity, uniquely, is not tied to any cultural practices or ideas of its own, and therefore is value neutral. “The logical mechanism of exclusion of the unbeliever is inherent in any religious conviction, even if those concerned are not aware of it, the sole exception being Christianity—where it is properly understood, which of course has not always been and is still not always the case, not even thanks to those who calls themselves Christian" (Lautsi II, 54 E.H.R.R. ¶15). This quote surrounding a Quebecois court case expresses how Christianity paints itself as so universally encompassing that it ends up creating the implication that Christianity is the default, an inherently exclusionary principle that disadvantages non-Christians.

The de facto assumption that Christianity is the baseline dominates American culture: “The statement that ‘America is a Christian nation’ not only posits an intersection between religious and national boundaries; it also implies that the boundary between Christians and non-Christians helps regulate the threshold between more and less ‘prototypical’ Americans” (Straughn 283). In daily life, it is assumed that everyone knows who Jesus is; in the winter, people who do not celebrate Christmas are treated with bewilderment at best and hostility at worst. Not engaging with Christian culture means, on some level, not engaging with American culture, a dangerous line to draw for vulnerable populations who have historically been subjected to strong suspicion and the assumption that they are “invaders” infiltrating American life. In her journal Battles Over Symbols: The “Religion” of the Minority Versus the “Culture” of the Majority, Lori G. Beaman explains, “While not wholly successful, the desacralization of religious symbols serve to both distract from a de facto hegemony and to reconstruct the symbol as one that belongs to everybody.” In America, this is exemplified best by Christian atheists—people who have abandoned the Christian religion, but still practice the Christian culture they live in. The crucial difference between atheists and religious minorities in America is that atheists often recolor Christian norms as accessibly secular, rejecting the idea that one can remain Christian in any sense if one abandons Christian doctrines. This idea is not so foreign to other religious minorities, who recognize that religion and culture are inextricable: Jews and Muslims, for example, may still label themselves such even if they no longer practice Judaism or Islam. For them, religion is not modular.

The most damaging extreme of this modular mindset, for atheists, is found within anti-theism—total opposition to all religion. A relatively small sect of atheists, anti-theists present an ideal of the world that is explicitly post-religious, drawing upon rationalist concepts of reason, relational experience, and pragmatism in stark contrast to the empiricism of Christianity, wherein certainty is frequently drawn from sense-experience and not necessarily logic. Anti-theism has a strong online presence within forums and apps such as Reddit and Instagram, where sizeable communities exist. In the case of formerly Christian anti-theists, modularity comes into play when anti-theists fail to recognize their own participation in Christian culture and complicity in Christian hegemony.

The reclamation of Christian symbology by anti-theists is problematic for the entire ideology of anti-theism, particularly because it results in a belief system that pushes for total secularization while also defining “secular” as just desacralized Protestantism, thereby upholding the implicitly colonial mindset that Christianity is de facto and value neutral. It “emerges from within a Western Christian tradition while being seen as epitomizing the sorts of Western political illiberalism and evangelical, conversionist cultural superiority that anthropologists struggle against” (Marshall S347).

Furthermore, anti-theism embraces not only the secular symbology of Christianity but its attitudes and principles as well. The belief in religious modularity is found within anti-theism too—because religion is considered to be damaging and oppressive, religion should be eradicated, failing to account for how closely tied together religion and culture is all across the world. The eradication of religion would result in the eradication of entire cultures, a goal that is both not feasible and extremely problematic to strive for. In this way, although anti-theism identifies itself with the struggles of minorities under Christian hegemony, it inadvertently plays into the harmful power dynamics that prioritize Christian secularism and drive forward attempts to assimilate minority cultures. This is demonstrated through its core concepts: evangelism, or spreading the “truth”, misrepresentation of vulnerable minority religions as threatening to the “mission”, and lastly, the aforementioned necessity of the eradication of religion, resulting in an ideal Edenic paradise of post-religious intellectualism.

All of these concepts are rooted in and implicitly condoned by Christianity as well: evangelizing as commanded by the Great Commission, Christianity’s long history of Islamophobia and even longer history of antisemitism through portraying other faiths as threatening the moral integrity of Christian dominance, and what the end result of successful global conversion would look like: an ideal Edenic paradise of unity with Christ.

As a result of this, even though anti-theism rhetoric presents itself as the wholesale disaffiliation with and opposition to religion, it actually functions as an extremist offshoot of Protestant Christianity due to the persistent misrecognition of its own affinity with the cultural norms it stems from.

Works Cited

Beaman, Lori G. “BATTLES OVER SYMBOLS: THE ‘RELIGION’ OF THE MINORITY VERSUS THE ‘CULTURE’ OF THE MAJORITY.” Journal of Law and Religion, vol. 28, no. 1, 2012, pp. 67–104. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23645227.

Marshall, Ruth. “Christianity, Anthropology, Politics.” Current Anthropology, vol. 55, no. S10, 2014, pp. S344–56. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.1086/677737.

Roy, Olivier. Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways. Hurst, 2010.

Straughn, Jeremy Brooke, and Scott L. Feld. “America as a ‘Christian Nation’? Understanding Religious Boundaries of National Identity in the United States.” Sociology of Religion, vol. 71, no. 3, 2010, pp. 280–306. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40961206.

宗教年鑑 令和3年版 [Religious Yearbook 2021] (PDF) (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. 2021.

[uranodioningin]

This was way too long for replies so I'm commenting. Apologies for the avalanche of text. Also, apologies to my followers who will have no idea what I'm talking about or why.

Quebec is super racist, and those of us who live here are tired of tax money being thrown towards racist policies and shitty treatment of immigrants, forcing them to learn French under the least supportive circumstances.

It would be fantastic if some of that money could go towards expanding language learning, not just in terms of the classes available to people, but also low-stakes ways to practice speaking & listening; namely, TV/movies and fan spaces. As opposed to, you know, work. Where there are financial consequences if you don't learn fast enough. Streaming Quebecois French shows (yes Quebecois French, watching Parisian French does nothing to help you understand your Quebecois coworkers or clients) is an excellent way to offer that sort of learning & practice, and funding for such shows is a good thing.

It would also be fantastic for Quebec to put more support in indigenous language revival, as mentioned in the replies. I will just point out here that Netflix and Disney aren't exactly bastions of indigenous language revival, and asking them to offer Quebec-French media in Quebec itself is in no way taking away space for indigenous voices. Quebec's goal with this bill seems to be to stem the tide of Anglo-colonial media pushing down any and all diverse voices in online streaming. I don’t think that’s the best priority to have, and indigenous language revival should receive far more attention, but it’s not in and of itself a racist project to make streaming platforms offer media in the languages & on the topics relevant to the local consumers.

There is, certainly, a link between modern francophonie and white supremacy. If this bill is implemented fully (with that nonsense about temporary international workers needing to learn French, and [as mentioned in the replies] with less & less structural support and just plain time for that learning to happen) there will be negative shock-waves, most strongly felt by the linguistically disenfranchised (which is basically to say non-white anglophone & allophone immigrants). On this I agree with OP's view, that this bill is framed as "preserving" the French language when in fact over 50% of the funding is going towards making immigration harder for POC in a way that will in no way increase the ratio of francophones in the province. The streaming stuff is a good start, but it's tacked on as an afterthought, with the bulk of the bill going to good ol' QC racism.

I try not to be pessimistic, though. I hope it’s possible to build a future francophonie, built on values of diversity and acceptance and decolonisation. I am under no illusions that it will be easy to shape this future franco culture so that it includes none of the long history of oppression of French colonisation, but I believe it's possible, and more importantly, that it's important to try. To pretend that making a better future that includes all currently extant cultures of a region isn’t possible...to put it politely, it's a little grim.

And frankly, Quebecois-French TV and movies are a damn good tool for creating a new francophonie without the racism--IF the shows/films are made with anti-colonial values, with messages of acceptance and celebration of all Quebec's cultures, with an exploration of what makes Quebec be Quebec that extends beyond on parle français icitte tbk.

To end, I’m not saying “if Francos don’t oppress Native voices, someone else will, so we might as well be the ones to do it.” I’m not saying “Let's give all disenfranchised people equal support whether or not they face equal hurdles.” I’m not saying “French in Quebec is dying and we must save it.” I’m not saying “Quebec is better when it's French.”

I’m saying “There are anglophones and allophones in Quebec who want to learn French, but who lack the structural support to achieve that, and artistic efforts to support these people are a good thing.” I’m saying “Artistic efforts to encourage language learning can and should be implemented alongside academic efforts, and neither effort is being made with sufficient emphasis right now.” I’m saying “Asking Netflix/Disney/etc. to offer Quebecois media is a way of increasing artistic support for French learners (and positively shaping franco culture) without trodding down any other linguistic/cultural revival efforts.” I’m saying “French culture is a lot more than just being able to work in French, but currently there is little to no space in modern Quebec for francophone culture made by Quebecois artists for a Quebecois audience. Quebeckers seeking a cultural handhold find only the labour market.”

I’m saying “Quebec has a future and we want to actively shape it instead of being subsumed by the USA's cultural trajectory.”

I don't trust the current government, or any of the other parties contending for the next gov't, to shape Quebec into something non-racist. But if the revolutionary spirit of Quebec, its working-class history, its multicultural history, is stamped out by American reactionary politics, then the Quebec of 30 or 50 or 100 years from now is going to be so much worse.

Quebecers could soon see more homegrown content on streaming services like Netflix and Disney+.

The provincial government announced that it plans to introduce a new bill within the next year to force online streaming giants to add more made-in-Quebec media on their platforms. It was one of nine measures unveiled on Sunday under the province's plan to spend $603 million over five years(opens in a new tab) to protect the French language in Quebec.

Culture Minister Mathieu Lacombe did not provide specifics of what would be inside the bill. [...]

The new funding will be aimed at nine priorities outlined by the government to boost the status of French. More than half of the money — $320 million — will be earmarked for ensuring temporary international workers speak and learn French. After immigration, culture is poised to get the second-largest chunk of the funding, at $187.3 million. [...]

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[college-girl199328]

Quebec's minister responsible for secularism, Jean-Francois Roberge, has called on his new special anti-Islamophobia advisor, Amira Elghawaby, to apologize and step down. Roberge took issue with comments on Bill 21 in a 2019 column in the Ottawa Citizen that she co-authored with Bernie Farber. The column takes issue with the secularism law, which prohibits certain public-sector workers from wearing religious symbols at work.

Bill 21, commonly referred to as Quebec's religious symbols ban invokes the notwithstanding clause to shield it from constitutional challenges. The clause allows provincial legislatures to override certain sections of the charter. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently criticized Quebec for enacting the clause in Bill 21 - legislation that Elghawaby's column described as "exactly what the Charter of Rights is supposed to protect us against."

The newspaper reported that the poll found just "28 percent of people had a positive view of Islam, and 37 percent had a positive view of Muslims; among those who have negative feelings about Islam, 88 percent support a ban on religious symbols for public school teachers." Elghawaby took to social media to clarify her comments in The Ottawa Citizen, writing, "I don't believe that Quebecers are Islamophobic about a poll on Bill 21 with partners from all provinces and regions to address racism head-on."

Quebec Solidaire (QS) and the Parti Quebecois (PQ) have criticized Elghawaby's language around Bill 21.

Unlike Roberge, Nadeau-Dubois is not calling for Elghawaby's resignation. Nor did the Quebec Liberals, whose interim leader, Marc Tanguay, said in a tweet that she must apologize for her "unacceptable and insulting comments." The Liberals said the party stands against all forms of hate, including Islamophobia, xenophobia, and racism. "In this regard, the CAQ must play a leading role."

The political reaction comes on the sidelines of the sixth anniversary of the 2017 shooting at the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre. On Jan. 29, 2017, a gunman killed six Muslim men and injured 17 others after opening fire shortly after evening prayer. A judge said the shooter had a "visceral hatred for immigrants who are Muslims."

PQ member Joel Arseneau turned his criticism toward Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

He said the column indicated Elghawaby held "deeply rooted" prejudice against Quebec.

Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies, whose survey Elghawaby cited, is not calling for her resignation. However, he told CTV that he believes she should provide more nuance on what the data really says. One thing the data does suggest, according to Jedwab, is that ardent supporters of Bill 21 "disproportionately harbour anti-Muslim sentiment."