montreal: Montréalais, voici un article du Globe a

isaiah (

batteur) wrote in

montreal,
@ 2006-09-16 14:49:00

Montréalais, voici un article du Globe and Mail qu'un ami vient de m'envoyer. J'en suis fou furieux et j'espère que vous en serez aussi ! Eh oui, la fusillade au collège Dawson cette semaine est la faute de la société québécoise d'après Jan Wong ! Incroyable, mais vrai. Pour la personne qui cherchait un journal à lire, je vous conseille fortement d'éviter le papier-toilette qui qu'est le Globe and Mail. Madame Wong décrit notre société comme raciste et insulte notre ville en deuil. Quelle honte !

Montréalers, here is an article from the Globe and Mail that a friend just sent me. I'm furious and I hope you will be, also. You see, Jan Wong manages to blame Québec society for the shooting at Dawson this week. Incredible, but true. For the person who was looking for a newspaper to read, I highly recommend that you avoid the toilet paper that is the Globe and Mail. Madame Wong says our society is racist and insults our city during its mourning. For shame!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060915.wxshooting-main16/EmailBNStory/National/home

What many outsiders don't realize is how alienating the decades-long linguistic struggle has been in the once-cosmopolitan city. It hasn't just taken a toll on long-time anglophones, it's affected immigrants, too. To be sure, the shootings in all three cases were carried out by mentally disturbed individuals. But what is also true is that in all three cases, the perpetrator was not pure laine, the argot for a “pure” francophone. Elsewhere, to talk of racial “purity” is repugnant. Not in Quebec.

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	vampire_engel 2006-09-16 07:29 pm UTC (link)
	This article pisses me off on so many levels I wouldn't even know where to begin. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ohdarlingg 2006-09-16 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	seriously. i have no words (Reply to this)(Parent)

fetternity
2006-09-16 08:29 pm UTC (link)

Well, I found some grounds on which to ethically assault her.
Read below:

"Dear Ms. Wong,

Your latest article, 'Get Under The Desk', without mincing words, quite frankly disgusted me. In the aftermath of such a tragedy, you seem to take for granted the yet-uncertain chronology of events and retell them with your own atypical undercurrent of intolerance towards anything relating to "pure laine Quebecer", as you so self-righteously use. As if the good people of Quebec were the only ones in the whole of our great Canada to shoot their own.

Should we remind you of four of our young and brave RCMP officers who were cold-bloodily laid low by bullets in Alberta last year? How about Karla Homolka, a media favorite? No, of course not; it brings more shock value (and potentially more sales) to tag the pure wool population of Montreal with your article, while everywhere else the media are pointing their collective fingers at a "gothic subculture" genre.

Your recent article is a pompous, self-important call for social discordance. I can only hope the callous tone of your article can be blamed on your journalist-like insensitivity rather than a planned action. No responsible, much less social, Montrealer would ever dare to so cold-heartedly assault the immense benefits reaped by the evolution of the language issues in this great city over the last 15 years.

Thank you so much for setting us back eighty-or-so years.

--
Christian Major,
Owner and Head Designer
Incarnation Alternative Wares

T.: 514.731.9104"

I'm amazed I could come up with anything beyond "you fucking, cum-dripping, racist zealot of a bitch".

	bitch_box 2006-09-16 07:42 pm UTC (link)
	For security reasons — security of the equipment — that is, the computer lab had three vast windows that looked onto the hall. All 50 or so students hit the floor, everyone that is, except for a couple of students who continued working at their computers. Were they Asian? ??? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	harmlesskitty 2006-09-16 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	Argh. (Reply to this)

	samaxnthah 2006-09-16 07:47 pm UTC (link)
	Well, that's a new one. This article is ridiculously offensive in every sense of the word. WHO let this go to press? Is this supposed to be satire? There are even grammatical errors. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	morktuum 2006-09-16 10:36 pm UTC (link)
	my reply was also to the media who point at the goth and metal community (Reply to this)

	morktuum 2006-09-16 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	medias tries to find bugs where there's not, the mass who's hooked to the medias dig deep to find them... i don't know about the english media but some french medias pointed at the violent video games, goth and metal community and this turned to another public opinion debate... d'uh (Reply to this)

	morganlefae 2006-09-17 04:34 am UTC (link)
	Wow I'm... shocked. Just... shocked. (Reply to this)

	super_bon 2006-09-17 05:43 pm UTC (link)
	I would write something to the paper right now, but I don't think I could put together enough polite and coherent words to get my point across. Does she really think that the "pure laine" concept is exclusive to Québec, and that it is always used in a racist manner? She needs a dose of reality. (Reply to this)

	dgg 2006-09-18 04:29 pm UTC (link)
	Guys, DON'T EVER read the Globe and Mail. EVER. Anytime someone read the Globe an Mail, an angel loses his wings and baby-Jesus cries. You would get more accurate and factual reporting from reading a Playboy article. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	vampire_engel 2006-09-19 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	They just mentioned this article on CTV news! Maybe if you watch it at 11:30pm you might catch it again. (Reply to this)

	strychnyn 2006-09-20 03:00 am UTC (link)
	just a sort of p.s.... heard a little blurb on the news tonight that Charest has sent a very pissed-off letter to the Globe and Mail demanding that Ms. Wong apologize for this very same article. wonder how she'll react? (Reply to this)

And especially DO NOT SALT THE WOUNDS OF A CITY IN MOURNING by blaming its culture for the guy's INSANITY.